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Job Purpose and Impact

The Director, R&D - North Asia Food will will lead and develop a team of technical service and application team based in China and Japan in Cargill Food Enterprise’s North Asia Group.  In this role, you will cultivate a customer centric culture to develop solutions with deep understanding of customer needs.  You will work with commercial system to improve the effectiveness of innovation process and ensure a focused and healthy innovation pipeline that supports short to longer term business needs.  You will lead TS/Application team to upgrade category capabilities for new business opportunities and enhancing the competitiveness of technical solutions in North Asia Food business markets (China, Japan, and South Korea). 

Key Accountabilities

•    Partner with commercial leaders (GTM, Category and Product Line, etc) in North Asia Food Group to implement customer segmentation strategy and lead the R&D team to develop and execute customer development plans for key accounts. 
•    Develop strong relationships with customers and coach TS team in strengthening customer connection and translating customer needs to technical solutions.
•    Ensure balanced and differentiated technical support to core business, and build value added business by developing category capabilities and providing strategic advice to business leaders. 
•    Be on the leadership team of North Asia Food business,  and develop business targets for R&D teams on annual basis that is aligned with NA’s Group AOP and long term growth plan. 
•    Manage R&D resource prioritization, people development, and talent management, including, training, budgeting, and compliant with applicable human resource regulations.
•    Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
•    Confirmed experience with ingredient technical services, applications or a similar discipline
•    Minimum of eight years of related work experience, five years of supervisory experience
•    Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

•    Doctorate degree

PRIOR BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCES
•    Lead the application center, ensuring a safe working environment, food safety compliance, budget and resource management.
•    Engage talents in R&D and cross functional team thru transformation in a global company 

KEY BEHAVIORS
•    Stay focus on what matters for business in a complex business environment 
•    Continuously improve existing capability and process in order to reach higher
•    Be able to deal with ambiguity to address needs with agility and conviction

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES TO BE GAINED
•    Partner with regional business, Cargill’s innovation ecosystem and external stakeholders to identify and develop innovations and support business growth
•    Lead a critical function in transformation of a global business and support the business growth with programs and cultural shift.