Head of Partnerships & NPD (F&B)
About this role
Role Overview:
This role owns the organization's Food & Beverage innovation strategy, building a pipeline of new products that resonate with customers and drive sustainable growth. It combines two things: spotting food and consumer trends and turning them into winning product concepts, and forging partnerships with brands, chefs, suppliers, and other food innovators to create differentiated offerings.
This role owns the organization's Food & Beverage innovation strategy, building a pipeline of new products that resonate with customers and drive sustainable growth. It combines two things: spotting food and consumer trends and turning them into winning product concepts, and forging partnerships with brands, chefs, suppliers, and other food innovators to create differentiated offerings.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set and drive the F&B innovation strategy and manage the product pipeline.
- Identify consumer and market trends and translate them into new product concepts.
- Own the full development cycle: ideation, recipe formulation, testing, and commercialization, through to post-launch review.
- Build and manage partnerships with external brands, chefs, suppliers, and innovators for exclusive/differentiated products.
- Work cross-functionally to ensure execution, quality, feasibility, and profitability.
- Track new product performance and continuously optimize the portfolio.
- Champion innovation and customer-centric thinking org-wide.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Culinary Arts, Nutrition, or related field.
- 10–15 years' hands-on experience in food product development/innovation, within retail, food service, food manufacturing, or consumer goods.
- Track record of launching commercially successful food products.
- Solid grasp of consumer trends, formulation, ingredient functionality, food safety, and commercialization.
- Proven ability to build and manage external brand/supplier partnerships.
- Strong commercial instincts - balancing creativity, customer appeal, feasibility, and profit.
Company at a glance
About Us
MVC Resources is a fast growing Regional HR Service provider specializing in enabling talent and skills gap for executives and organisation. Since inception, MVC is instrumental in helping organisation to further grow their business from local, regional and global. Throughout the years, we have partnered with various organizations from start-ups, SMEs and MNCs in enabling talents, technologies and skills to grow. Our customers range across different industries and disciplines.
Founded2020
Team Size11-50 employees
WorkspaceOn-site
IndustryHuman Resources
Location
Subang Jaya City Council, Selangor, Malaysia
Websitemvc-resources.com
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