Head of Research & Development at Shadez Consultant

Shadez Consultants is formed by professionals who understood the nerves of business game plan. We know todays challenge and what future holds for the Job seekers and Companies alike. In todays world of high competition, the organisations starve for right talent and vice versa. We give you right talent who can give you guaranteed success. Shadez Consultant was modeled to close skill and competency gaps in organizations.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Research & Development

Location: Kano
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Creates and manages the new product development pipeline portfolio.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to drive the Customer to Concept process to bring new products to market.
• Identifies marketing opportunities by analyzing and defining market share, competitor market share, and available market share by product market.
• Provides leadership and support for the design, development, refinement, and implementation of products by initiating research to identify consumer needs; develop new productsto meet consumer needs; research consumer acceptance of products; work with production to identify process improvement.
• Prioritized new concepts/products through the development process which includes:
  • Formula and costing creation
  • Customer / Market test
  • Production Scale up
• Responsible for Performance Evaluation Analysis.
• Maintain ongoing communication with different stakeholders to share on emerging new ingredients, packaging and technology.

Skills / Qualifications

• Degree in Food Technology or other related courses
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in product development processes
• Knowledge in retort processing technology will be an added advantage
• Independent and able to work with minimal supervision
• Proactive in seeking solutions and solving problems
• Team player and good communication skill.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.