Graduate R&D Brand Maintenance Specialist - 1 Year FTC
Job Description
The R&D Category Brand Maintenance Team (Coffee & Tea) is responsible for the design,
specification and commercialization of products that meet consumer-driven design
targets for the category. The Category Brand Maintenance Manager reports into the R&D
Category Director. They are responsible for delivery & maintenance of portfolio menu
card solutions across all coffee & tea categories - including beans, roast & ground,
instant, plant or milk-based powder mixes, various capsule product for machines, as well
as tea.
The Brand Maintenance specialist has a specific focus to deliver R&D deliverables
in Adaptation (expansion, optimisation) projects. The role leads or supports the execution of projects up to implementation.
The role is responsible for building and maintaining the network with local and global Marketing. The role offers immediate opportunity to work closely with cross-functional experts in various fields such as supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, finance, as well as technical, sustainability and consumer science/sensory experts within wider R&D.
The role requires frequent linkage with associates in R&D centre in Utrecht; this role could lead to international opportunities in Utrecht at the end of the contract, depending on available vacancies and individual performance in role.
Key Responsibilities
- Contributes to the realisation of the business strategy through menu card deployment.
- Executes R&D projects by leading the delivery of product specification necessary for A4E project stream.
- Proposes the technical product architecture of the product design. Offers and identifies opportunities to innovate and optimize processing capabilities and performance.
- Delivering day to day performance and programmes within the network.
- Is part of the team that communicates and supports best practice menu card deployment into local applications.
- Reports to Brand Maintenance manger on a weekly basis.
Qualifications
- Graduate calibre or appropriate vocational experience
- Previous Product development or Brand maintenance experience
- Experience with Product Specifications software or Experience with writing product specifications.
- Strong project management experience within an R&D role
- Experience in a Brand Maintenance position within FMCG
- Demonstrable problem solving skills within a similar role
Additional Information
For more than 265 years, JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE) is inspired by its belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. We are fuelled by our purpose of unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea to create a better future. Today, our coffee & tea portfolio is available in more than 100 developed and emerging markets, through a portfolio of over 50 brands that collectively cover the entire category landscape led by leading household names such as L’OR, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, Old Town, Super, Pickwick and Moccona.
JDE is part of JDE Peet’s, the world’s largest pure-play coffee and tea company, headquartered in The Netherlands.
What’s it like to work at JDE?
We are proud of our passionate, driven associates that challenge the status quo and pursue mastery in everything they do. Our goal is simple and ambitious – JDE: A coffee & tea for every cup.
At JDE, we're Made to Stand Out. Every day we are progressive in outlook, ambitious in nature, resourceful in action and decisive in approach, bringing coffee and tea moments to everyone around the world.