Vice President, Sciences

**About Us**

MaxPeople is a professional Human Resources consulting firm offering HR, Training, Recruitment and Employment Law services to clients in need of an effective people strategy to grow their business. We provide services to small and mid-size organizations with the necessary Human Resources infrastructure and the employment law services required for growth.

**About Our Client**

**What You Will Be Doing**

Your role will be to lead the development process for commercializing new food safety products. You will be directly responsible for our formulations, approvals, patents, publications, laboratories, and testing. You will also support products that are in the market with continuous improvements, validations at customer sites, and tech support linked to microbiology and food quality.

You will lead an established team of microbiologists, chemists, lab technicians, and regulatory affairs professionals to accomplish this. You will also direct the stage gate process for launching new products. This is a cross functional responsibility that involves working with Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and Finance. You will also join the Management Team and report directly to the CEO. You will work closely with our Science Committee that includes advisors with critical expertise to leverage. You will also be the technical representative of the company working with external partners and influencers.

The leader that takes on these responsibilities will need to be process oriented, highly collaborative, facilitate innovation, and be able to prioritize resources. You will have many people on your team to bring up ideas for new products and product improvements. Being open to these ideas and encouraging them, while also being able to decipher which are the best ideas to focus on, will be critical. Developing relationships with regulators, key customers, and the management team, will be essential to your success and will require some travel to the US. Lastly, developing your team to work hard, holding them accountable, and developing their skills will be important.

**Requirements**:

- Graduate degree in either microbiology, chemistry, biochemistry, or a related field (Ideally Ph.D.)
- 10+ years of science related work experience including experience in the food and beverage industry, either in food processing, or as a supplier of food equipment or chemicals
- Minimum 4+ years in science related leadership role, i.e. managing a team of lab technicians, microbiologists, chemists, regulatory affairs professionals
- Experience in microbiology, chemistry, and regulatory affairs
- Experience launching new products and leading the stage gate product development
- Success in working with regulators and external groups to commercialize products
- Flexibility and ability to travel to customers and regulators in the United States (10-30% of time)
- Hard worker that will drive the team to execute at a high level and quickly
- Team player that is highly collaborative with management team members and other functions
- Strong leadership skills, enjoys coaching scientists and technical team
- Problem solver, demonstrates ability, perseverance, and ownership to solve complex problems
- Desire to plan the future, with focus on identifying resources needed to build our capabilities
- Strong desire to have a social impact with your work and building a company for long term processes cross functionally
- We are proud to be in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), 2005 and the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation. We are happy to honor accommodations at any part of the recruitment process and invite you to let us know how we can help._