Head of Food Development

5 days ago


Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Blue Spark Organisation Full time

**The Company**:
This established food brand is now building a brand-new one of kind site in Riyadh, KSA, to bring exciting ready to eat and chilled products to the market. They are seeking a dedicated Head of Food Development to take the lead in strategically building their food offering and developing a high-calibre food development team that can create and launch innovative products across multiple product categories.

**The Role**:
Reporting to the General Manager, this is a Senior Leadership role with strategic responsibilities to take the lead in all aspects of product development, ensuring that they are in line with business values and key consumer trends. A key driver of product success, you will take responsibility from concept through to product launch, developing the innovation pipeline to ensure categories make the impact needed in the marketplace.

Working closely with internal teams, you will ensure NPD projects match commercial and profitable business strategies, embodying brand goals as well as seasonal trends to satisfy a plethora of diverse customer tastes.

As well as maintaining the integrity of the brand, you will also champion quality, challenge feasibility, and ensure product consistency. You will drive long and short-term NPD initiatives on multiple product ranges and addressing any improvements required.

You will manage and develop your aspiring teams with your superb mentoring and people management skills, working cross-functionally to drive forward inspirational ideas to help deliver NPD and commercial strategy to support business growth.

**The Person**:
This role would suit a confident, creative and customer centric Head of Food/Food Development Director with a true passion for innovation and food values. You will need to be a visionary who can strategically build an entire workflow from ideation to full implementation into the market. Your broad experience will have covered all aspects of product development and you’ll have proven ability in delivering NPD strategies.

You'll need to be highly focussed and driven, methodical in your approach, with the commercial acumen needed to ensure the success of each category. Crucially, you will have a genuine passion and interest in food with an infectious enthusiasm for delivering dynamic and innovative products.

Amazing leadership and people management skills are essential with proven ability to coach and mentor teams. Solid project management, organisational and influencing skills are required as you will be working cross-functionally to achieve ambitious company goals within a new market.
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