End-to-end Innovation and Design

**Position Snapshot
Location: Konolfingen, Switzerland
Company: Nestlé Product Technology Centre (NPTC)
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%
Type of contract: Permanent contract

Genuine opportunities for career and personal development
Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces
Dynamic international working environment
Attractive additional benefits

**Position Summary
Our Research & Development center in Konolfingen near Bern / Switzerland develops for Nestlé worldwide, new products, processes and packaging in the areas of Dairy and Nutrition. The Nestlé Product Technology Centre Dairy plans and develops Innovation & Renovation pipelines to support growth and profitability of our Dairy business via a consumer centric approach. It ensures scientific, technological and manufacturing excellence through the development of the right competences.

In the frame of a new Organization set-up, we are creating the role of **End-to-End Innovation and Design & Prototyping Manager **directly reporting to the R&D Innovation Lead of the NPTC Dairy. The Green Room is envisaged to be our Lab for orchestrating ideas into tangible propositions. It will be our Centre of Excellence comprising a diverse team of multidisciplinary specialists with skills in the area of Concept Writing, Product visualization, Design, Packaging and Front-End Innovation. In the “Green Room”, we will put together, prepare and polish “ideas”.

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.

**A Day in the Life of an End-to-End Innovation and Design & Prototyping Manager
- Managing the diversity of specialisms
- Translating ideas and technical language into consumer-friendly comprehensible concepts
- Guiding recipe & product development that can stimulate idea generation (The Chefs)
- Guiding early visual design, packaging
- “Stringing together” the specialisms to deliver a coordinated output to key stakeholders (Product Developers / S&T, SBU)
- Facilitating the end-to-end process of Innovation workshops to ensure viable, ready to roll propositions

**What will make you successful
- 15 years’ work experience in R&D / Startup / CMI / CSI / FEI/ Marketing (multi exposure would be ideal)
- Solid understanding of various facets of the innovation and feasibility journey
- Balanced strategic thinking and execution capabilities
- Ability to lead and motivate a cross functional expert team to deliver at the cutting edge
- Lead team in solution and technology assessments
- Ability to Co-create the external and internal innovation strategies by partnering with the internal R&D and SBU teams
- Keep the _“Room” _ahead by experimenting with new tools and technologies by staying abreast of the latest trends and techniques

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.