R&d Manager

3 weeks ago

London, Canada The Original Cakerie Full time

**The Original Cakerie Ltd.** is part of the rapidly growing Dessert Holdings Family, offering career growth opportunities. Dessert Holdings is North America's fastest growing premium dessert company, recognized for providing retail and foodservice customers with chef-inspired innovative desserts made with real ingredients, a flexible and low-cost supply chain, and best in class service. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, it is a collection of premium dessert companies and brands: Steven Charles, The Original Cakerie, Lawler's Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company and most recently, Dianne's Fine Desserts. Dessert Holdings is owned by Bain Capital and is continuing its journey of rapid growth. The company employs approximately 3,000 people across eight manufacturing facilities and its headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota. The manufacturing facilities are geographically dispersed, with two facilities in Canada and one each in Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and North Carolina.

**We need a new ingredient**

We are in search of a great R&D Manager in our London facility. If that is you, and you want to work at an amazing company, then keep reading

**Position Summary**:
This R&D Manager position will ensure new items are built and launched successfully, existing items are documented accurately and act as a liaison between Production, Sales, Finance, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain. The R&D Manager needs to understand the business needs, design, and execute tests, analyze data, draw conclusions, communicate results, and commercialize products. Will drive technical projects to meet business initiatives focusing on new product development, quality improvement and cost improvement.

**Key R&D Responsibilities & Duties: (**_this is meant to be an outline, not an exhaustive list of responsibilities)_**
- Provide project leadership in the development and commercialization of new products, product improvement, and cost savings.
- Work on multiple interdisciplinary projects, setting direction, developing, and implementing plans, identify and organize project team, coordinate resources to achieve goals, and lead all communication within and outside of organization.
- To train and mentor R&D Team in project planning and execution while overseeing projects. Establish goals, appraise performance, recommend training, and provide input into final review for all direct reports.
- Design and execute experiments, analyze, and interpret data to make sound technical recommendations for specific projects.
- Provide and communicate technical and business risk assessment and perspective.
- Develop process specifications, ensuring training and transfer of specification knowledge to QA and Operations.
- Research and gain thorough understanding and knowledge of emerging technologies in product and ingredient technologies.
- Support Operations and QA to resolve ingredient, formula, process issues and manage product/process changes.
- Provide technical support with customers on product information and process capability.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams on implementing new products, new equipment, or new processes.
- Provide formula and process specifications and on-floor support to assure smooth rollouts of new products, equipment and/or processes.
- Support the process design and review on new capability expansion, cost enhancement, and/or process improvement opportunities.
- Lead team in continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the new product development process by; actively participating in and encouraging continuous improvement to enhance our win rate, reduce our costs, improve our new product scale up and expedite our speed to market.

**Position Requirements (Must Have)**:

- Degree in Food Science / Food Engineering with a strong functional Baking Science background (minimum 5 years bakery/food development / manufacturing experience)
- Minimum 3 years management experience
- Experience in baking, pastry arts, R+D and Food / Baking Science
- Culinary Degree or equal work experience a plus
- Experience with leading new products through concept, prototyping, and commercialization within a manufacturing environment.
- Recipe / Formulation and raw material knowledge / experience.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Working knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), SharePoint, ERP systems
- Working knowledge of Canadian and US food standards and regulations.
- Strong bench work skills with the ability to execute solutions rapidly (DOE).
- Self-directed with initiative; responsible for managing own projects and ensuring all timelines are met or exceeded for self and reports.
- Ability/willingness to work off hours or extended amounts of time during product scale ups.
- Ability/willingness to travel up to 30% of the time.

**What You Bring to the Team**
- Must have reliable transportation and be able to work a flexible schedule.
- Must be willing to work extra hours and on weeke

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