Do you want to lead the way forward for specification management within FrieslandCampina Professional? And do you have a technical background in or strong affinity with Quality/ Food Safety and data management? Apply now!
As a Manager Specification Management you will be responsible for ensuring knowledge, quality and compliance of raw materials and semi-finished specifications used in the different product groups of FrieslandCampina Professional. This is a crucial and dynamic role within R&D in order to be able to develop robust, safe and compliant ingredient products. For our customers it is essential that they get the right products with the required specification. You will be responsible for setting up a robust and professional team of specification specialists serving the different product groups within FrieslandCampina Professional. In this playing field, optimal co-operation between all disciplines is crucial. Therefore we are looking for someone with a drive to make things happen, who can handle uncertainties and makes optimal use of capabilities and strengths in the organization.
- You will be the R&D owner of the FrieslandCampina Professional specification portfolio worldwide.
- You will closely collaborate with the New Product Development department and Technical Sales Specialists.
- You will be directly in contact with Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and Procurement colleagues as well as suppliers.
- You will report to the Development Director of FrieslandCampina Professional.
What we ask
• MSc degree in food science and technology, nutrition or comparable technical field and at least 10 years of experience in an R&D, QA or technology role, preferably in dairy.
• Skills to manage a professional team, people management skills and affinity.
• Program and project management experience, pro-active, pragmatic, result oriented, team player across disciplines, decisive.
• Affinity with database warehouse software (experience with SAP PLM is a pre).
• Conceptual and analytical thinking: ability to analyse and prioritise needs, ability to formulate a strategy for specification and recipe management and to steer execution and implementation.
What we offer
• Location: Innovation Centre Wageningen, you will be part of the FC-Professional Development team.
• A diverse level of team maturity to manage; 1 part of the team was the first going to SAP PLM and is mature, the other part will follow next year.
• Help building a strategy for the fastest growing and most profitable business group of FrieslandCampina.
• Your salary is based on the weighting of your job, your experience and your training. FrieslandCampina offers not only a competitive salary but also training and education on the job.
Vacancy description
• As a manager for the Specification Management department you are responsible for people management: at start 4 dedicated specialists, growing to 8 direct reports in 2022.
• Set-up and execute the strategy for specification management within FC Professional.
• Achieve first time right quality for any product-, recipe- or raw material change across the supply chain by executing robust specification management processes.
• dentify opportunities and take action for improving our way of working, functional specifications, efficiency and complexity reduction.
• Lead SAP PLM implementation (project Cyclops), the new global specification management system, across the remaining FrieslandCampina Professional product groups, keeping an eye on synergies between the different business areas.
• You will be point of contact and sparring partner for internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal leverage of specification and recipe management.
Team Details
FrieslandCampina Professional is a business focus area within the FrieslandCampina Food and Beverages business group which has a strong successful commercial and innovative legacy build up over the last decades. FrieslandCampina Professional is a world-class, global leader in dairy and plant-based value-added ingredients and solutions targeted at professional customers such as bakeries, fast food and coffee chains, hotels and restaurants as well as industrial food and beverages companies. In close cooperation with customers and through the exchange of in-depth market, ingredient and solution expertise, FrieslandCampina Professional helps customers to win in their markets. FrieslandCampina Professional is a global business with dedicated ingredient product and application development, sales offices and production facilities around the world.
In this role you will be part of a professional team of about 75 R&D colleagues in the FrieslandCampina Professional business unit. Within this larger team you work in a team of 4 Specification Specialists focused on spray-dried powder products. The team is planned to grow in size and scope, up to around 8 team members and bringing also liquid cream products to the SAP-PLM system in 2022.
For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves.
We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.