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Sr. Manager R&D, Product Innovation

Location:

Ardent Mills Headquarters, Denver CO

Your Role

Senior Manager R&D of Product Innovation is responsible to deliver and lead proactive R&D team in developing customer centric winning products pipeline and meet product innovation growth objectives. In close partnership with Product Marketing, and Data & Insights teams, the Sr. Manager plays a pivotal role in identifying new opportunities, fostering a culture of creativity, and managing projects to bring leading-edge products and technologies to fruition. Additionally, the Sr. Manager will identify opportunities for growth and improvement and provide leadership guidance to ensure that team members are motivated and productive.

The role will collaborate closely with technical (e.g., Ingredient Research, Quality, Food Safety & Regulatory, Technical Services) and commercial stakeholders (e.g., Sales, Emerging Nutrition, Strategic Pricing, Legal, Operations, Supply Chain) to support operational excellence in scaling product launches across both internal and external manufacturing facilities. The Sr. Manager will focus on long-term success of the team and its projects, establishing team goals, monitoring progress of each project, and provided technical expertise to ensure that each project is delivered in compliance with company and regulatory standards.

As a leader and people manager, the Ardent Mills Values of trust, serving, simplicity, and safety will guide your decisions. You will listen, learn, and serve your team members. You will enable your team to deliver superior business results by constantly learning, reinventing, and challenging yourself to do better. You will inspire people to achieve things they never thought possible.

To succeed, you must be able to:

Deliver results in first-time situations by inspiring others and working to earn trust every day.

Serve others with understanding, respect, and care.

Operate with simplicity, clarity, and transparency.

Deal with and drive change.

Organize, prioritize, and own multiple assignments while meeting or exceeding deadlines.

Learn and apply new technology and share your knowledge with others.

Above all you will be expected to carry out all your activities with reliability, integrity, compliance and in a safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient manner.

Your Responsibilities

In collaboration with the Product Marketing, Data & Insights teams and other internal stakeholders, drive Ardent Mills' 5-year Product Innovation Strategy, build and refresh product innovation funnel.

Serve as the technical lead,and coach team members who serve as technical lead executing projects through the Stage-Gate process. Collaborate with the Product Innovation Project Management team to ensure New Product Development projects are completed on time and meet go-to-market goals (e.g., cost, sensory targets, feasibility, quality, product training, and customer engagemen

Foster a culture of excellence and high-performance by encouraging an organizational culture that supports psychological safety, exploration, agility, collaboration, and risk-taking.

As a champion of people leadership, motivate, equip, guide, and empower your team to achieve their full potential and meet the organization's objectives.

Lead strategic resource allocation discussions with business stakeholders to align on the prioritization of pipeline activities and effectively allocate resources based on our 5-year growth strategy.

Develop strategic partnerships both internally and externally to enhance our capacity, capabilities, and speed in solution development.

Collaborate with R&D peers to build capabilities and tools to create new and improve existing products across businesses and portfolios.

Manage and track a diverse portfolio of projects, leading team members through tasks and influencing cross-functional teams to ensure imely stage gate progression and delivery of new launches.

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At Ardent Mills, everyone matters and everyone has a voice. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and team members and the decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed,