Lead product innovation and renovation as a Product Development Senior Technologist for Mars Petcare in Beijing. This full-time role focuses on translating consumer insights into key quality attributes and driving products from prototype to industrial production for iconic brands like Pedigree and Whiskas.
Requirements
Minimum 3 years of industry experience in R&D within FMCG.
Strong knowledge of product development from bench top to full-scale production.
Demonstrated excellence in project management and leadership of technical teams.
Excellent English language proficiency.
Preferred: Understanding of pet food consumers, market opportunities, recipes, raw materials, and manufacturing technologies.
No specific degree requirement is explicitly stated in the posting.
Skills & Responsibilities
Project Management: Lead product development workflows from first prototype through to industrial production, ensuring effective risk management and cross-functional alignment.
Technical Development: Improve products, components, equipment, and processes to ensure consistent delivery against key quality attributes and performance targets.
Technical Study: Coordinate studies on product fundamental knowledge and capability building to provide business recommendations for innovation and renovation.
Partner Management: Network with co-manufacturers, external agencies, and global R&D experts to drive innovation-related raw material and product capabilities.
Potential transition routes: People from FMCG product development or food science roles may bring strong formulation and project management skills, alongside meeting the required R&D industry experience.
Job description
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
1.Product Development:
Role to fuel the innovation pipeline, identifying and translating consumer, shopper and customer insights into key quality attributes (KQA's) and desirable product taken from first prototype through to industrial production. Work seamlessly with Global and Regional team to ensure effective risk management of the product development workstreams, linking cross functionally.
2.Manufacturing Technical Product Development:
Role focuses on improving products, components, equipment, systems, or processes and to ensuring consistent delivery against key quality attributes, product performance and quality targets.
3.Technical study:
Coordinate technical study on product fundamental knowledge and capability building and give business recommendation to flawless innovation and renovation implementation.
4.Coman management：
Networking with Co-man, external agencies and global R&D experts
Context and Scope
1. Primarily focused on translation phases of Growth activities, but also covering Efficiency through value-leadership projects, and Quality through brand maintenance initiatives as required.
2. Direct activities through an understanding of Desirability /Feasibility /Viability and be able to motivate and direct a range of R&D associates and beyond (including interaction with a range of supply and demand functions).
3. Lead Pedigree & Whiskas brand product innovation and renovation
4. Lead product continuous improvement of Pedigree & Whiskas on desirability, viability, and feasibility to meet quality, efficiency and cost requirement;
5. Lead to develop innovation related raw material;
6. Product and raw material technical and functional capability development and the knowledge transformation in Global and local;
Knowledge / Experience
1.Minimum Requirements:
1). 3+ year’s industry experience in R&D within FMCG
2). Strong knowledge of product development from bench top to full scale production.
3). Strong ability to work cross functionally with people in other disciplines/business areas.
4). Demonstrated excellence in project management with the strong capability to motivate and direct a technical team.
5). Excellent English
2.Preferred Qualifications:
1). Understanding of Petfood consumers, market opportunities, recipes, raw materials and process constraints.
2). Strong knowledge of applicable petfood technologies and the manufacturing processes used to produce feed and petfood ingredients.
