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Leading, focusing and inspiring the R&D functions like new product development, innovations, improvements, ensuring the recipes, ingredients, process of quality aspects of the company, including Packaging, Nutrition, Sensory for the MENA regions, 3 factories on the business of biscuits, chocolates, savoury, wafer and fillings.Shaping the innovation strategy and pipeline of the company, to ensure key consumer & market understanding is converted into incremental growth opportunities.Providing thought leadership to all the Marketing on identifying growth opportunities to take the business to Outperformance as well as technology roadmaps to achieve superior products.Building capability in the R&D and wider organisation to target bigger/better innovations that drive incremental growth across key platforms such as Sustainable, Indulgence, Convenience, Health, Nutrition and Sustainability, drive innovation process excellence and ensure brilliant execution of winning innovations. Lead, analyse and find alternative solutions for productivity, cost saving projects in technical RM, PM, formulation and processes.Motivating in training and educating employees in the technical aspects of the bakery, chocolate technology.Attending technical complaints, conduct investigations & Reporting.

Innovation and technologies in biscuits, crackers, wafers.

Key marketplace and operational innovations in: Products: marshmallow biscuits coated with chocolate, wafer creams and chocolate coating types, Sandwich biscuits with creams, Crackers, oat and bran crackers, cookies, Petit beurre types, Puff pastries with jelly fillings, Cheese creams, Potato Chips (oven baked). New multipack design innovations, improvements of some products quality as well. Attendance a lots of training and certificate program for sector process. Implementation of systems covering BRC,IFS, ISO 9001:2000 , ISO 22000, ISO14001, lean management .