Our client is North America’s most successful independent developer of new foods and beverages for the food service industry. They work with both large and small clients to help them identify new business and product opportunities, formulate the early prototypes, develop the branding, positioning, and packaging, test them with consumers, and commercialize the winning products in contract manufacturing plants or in the clients’ own facilities.
They are an employee-owned company that operates at a lightning-fast pace, which allows their clients to be smarter and quicker in getting new products to market. They provide hands-on resources to their clients, but more importantly, they provide expertise, insight, and award-winning creativity across food categories, segments, and channels.
The Company has a new opportunity for a Project Manager at their location in the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes a 20,000 square foot food development lab, brand development studio, consumer research facility, and an on-site pilot manufacturing plant. They are looking for passionate foodies to join their employee-owned “family.” First and foremost, you must be driven by all things food, especially food innovation.
About The Position:
As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing innovation projects alongside their highly-experienced Executive Team and Innovation Managers. You will be working in a support role, but you will have the utmost freedom to chart your own path to success.
Since they don’t have a formal training program for this position, being able to take the initiative is critically important to your success. If you work best in a structured environment with policies and procedures, this may not be the best fit for you.
Their business is high touch. It is relationship-based. You must be comfortable with one-on-one client contact, helping to establish long-term client relationships, and delivering world-class project management.
You must have the flexibility, personality and collaboration skills necessary to work cross-functionally with the creative team, food technologists, chefs, branding and design team, and clients. You must be able to engage in strategic conversations with clients that range from the most inexperienced of start-up founders to the seasoned marketers, researchers, and R&D members within the largest of their multinational clients.
You will need to be able to think creatively to solve innovation challenges. This includes working with their creative and development teams to cleverly design concepts and products that resonate with consumers and generate profits for their clients.
You should have the ability to give an engaging and energetic presentation, as well as help develop and write it. You must be comfortable advocating a strong point of view, and being able to defend it.
Food As a Way of Life
A job at this company will immerse you in the world of food. You must be passionate about food and beverage in all shapes and forms. And while you are willing to taste anything without judgment (or allergy concerns), you have your own passions and loves within the world of food. We want to hear about them. The more you can articulate your passion, the more interested they will be in interviewing you. At our client company, food is not just their business; it’s their life.
They also like to have fun. It’s food, after all!
Minimum Experience:
Project management experience.
An undergraduate degree in a related field.
A minimum of 5 years in the CPG or foodservice/restaurant industry.
Experience That Will Set You Apart:
Food manufacturing or Food Science knowledge or degree.
Restaurant or grocery operations experience.
Creative arts.
A graduate degree in a related field.
Compensation:
Salary will be based upon experience.
You can expect a rich package of benefits, including 401K, health, dental, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, breakfast, lunch, and snacks Monday-Friday in the office, and participation in their ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) with an opportunity for quarterly profit-sharing.
You must be able to travel with little advance notice.
All applicants for this position must be authorized to work in the United States now and in the future without requiring sponsorship.
For additional information, please contact Moira McGrath, ((954) 428-3888 or moira@foodscience.com