Product Innovation Specialist

6 days ago

Susurluk İlçesi, Balıkesir, Turkey Kraft Heinz Full time

About the Role

Kraft Heinz is seeking a highly skilled Product Innovation Specialist to join our team in Susurluk, Turkey. As a key member of our East R&D team, you will be responsible for driving innovation and product development across our global business.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop new and renovated products in the framework of NPD activities and value engineering in Turkey and run complex projects in Turkey
  • Proactively stimulate the NPD process, have an open-minded attitude with a clear focus on consumer-driven innovation
  • Bring new ideas as much from an NPD perspective as from a value-engineering perspective
  • Provide technological expertise where needed in the organization
  • Support driving the BU innovation and R&D strategy
  • Lead the development activities related to NPD projects
  • Aligning and implementing the R&D strategies and Turkey goals strat-plan into actions
  • Implement the 5-year innovation calendar and proactively new concepts
  • Lead the assigned product development and formulation projects related to NPD, innovations, renovations, offload, VE, process excellence
  • The owner of sensory marketing approvals for the benchtop trials and recipes development within the timeline
  • To follow the regulations regarding packaging together with the regulatory affairs team
  • Develop and deliver new, improved or more cost-efficient products within the framework of the agreed innovation, cost-out pipeline and SC pipeline projects at the factory or at copackers
  • Continuously find ways to improve our processes, ways of working, capabilities
  • Create, develop and implement industrialized product solutions under specific projects, ensuring robust risk management and delivery of quality attributes in line with consumer's expectation, brand foundations and guidelines
  • Recipe formulation for innovations & renovations in line with target cost
  • Managing the deliverables and milestones within the signed-off timeline R&D documents, PLM & HIVE
  • Keep all records and filing up to date for each trial across different scales
  • Develop good relations with the internal customers Regulatory, Finance, Procurement, Factory teams & Marketing to support the product development projects progress
  • Make sure that Kraft Heinz regulations and standards are applied within the product development's stages
  • Identify and implement process excellence & cost-saving initiatives
  • Create product ID cards and make the communication with related departments
  • Participating technical feasibility studies and development for new product/value engineering ideas
  • Implement new projects with respect to SEI and ESG point of view
  • Conducting all studies to ensure technical compliance, procedures, processes, nutrition, food safety, and quality of new and improved varieties that are brought to market
  • Create product ID cards, BOM, and defined documents in procedures and make the communication with related departments
  • Issue final product specifications along with implementation team, FSQ teams with Heinz sites or copackers
  • Run and regularly reporting of benchmark studies
  • Act as competence resource to R&D's business partners
  • Provide input to the category strategy

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