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Lille Area, France

• Process development & improvement : lead process R&D studies to introduce new and improved processing techniques and technologies• Scale up : lead the technical transfer of products from development labs/pilot plant to the factory.Create scale up models by developing expert processing equipment understanding/characterization at different scales. Develop a strong understanding of how key product quality attributes can be influenced by processing and can therefore be controlled.• Intellectual Property Champion

Lyon Area, France

• Innovation: conceive reliable and profitable product and technical solutions. Develop new product and new raw material. Lead R&D part of NPD projects, manage multidisciplinary technical teams, lead industrial tests, recommend process principles and investments. Participate to commissioning of new processes.• Skills acquired: business strategy, change management, innovation processes.

Lyon Area, France

• To provide support to the Supply Chain teams by liaising between the business and operations and promoting collaboration and alignment against key project priorities. To help driving innovation and growth with a holistic end-to-end perspective. To early influence of business teams being voice of the plant & supply chain.

Strasbourg Area, France

• Cost improvement: responsible of the portfolio management for cost savings, in collaboration with the commercial and supply divisions. Identify, assess and recommend business opportunities. Reformulate ice cream and chocolate coating recipes of Mars®, Snickers®, Bounty® and Twix® ice cream products.• Skills acquired: project management, lean 6 Sigma (green belt level), design of experiments, P&Lassessment.• Co-manufacturing: participate in the process of auditing and selecting external manufacturingpartners. Participate in the process of ensuring the guarantee of intellectual property. Lead and steer work package with external partner, by managing product development, training personnel, and validating product quality and line efficiency of first production runs of Galaxy® and Maltesers® ice cream products.• Skills acquired: audit, leading meetings, project delivery.

Bachelor'S Degree, Agro-Food Industry, Bio-Engineering And Food Processing.

Certificate Of Completion, Technical Leadership Essentials

Innovation, Leadership & Team Design, Technology Management & Architecting, IP, Storytelling

Two-Year’S Technical Degree, Food Science And Food Technology