Job Description

Position: R&D Commercialization Manager

Reports to: Vice President (Director level role)

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Scale-Up Search are partnered with an innovative and growing food company, tailoring to the foodservice, industrial and retail markets. Looking for a new leader, to develop their offerings and follow them from concept to commercialization.

The R&D / Commercialization Manager plays a key role in ensuring the successful development and launch of newly approved products from inception through production / launch, as well as continuous improvement.

Success as the R&D Commercialization Manager requires strong food science knowledge, technical problem-solving skills, effective communication, and a hands-on, detail-driven approach to project management. As this role is critical to their mission of developing innovative, custom solutions that deliver exceptional taste, texture, and functionality for our clients in the restaurant and foodservice industry, this candidate will have proven experience in elevating technical / flavor capability to develop competitive, differentiated solutions.

Collaboration and teamwork are essential skills, working alongside the Sales, Culinary/R&D, Quality, Operations, Procurement and customer teams to cover all facets of formulations, processes, packaging, shelf-life, storage, specifications, ingredient substitutions and/or changes.

This role will report directly to the VP, and therefore require a history of leadership and management. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of working collaboratively with restaurant chain Research & Development (R&D) and culinary teams to create tailored products that drive menu differentiation and consumer appeal

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