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Döhler

Global R&D Lead - Colours and Coatings(m/w/x)

Darmstadt
Full-timeOn-siteSenior

Aligning global R&D lab operations for natural colours and coatings at a natural ingredients producer. Complex international operations management experience required. Family-owned company.

Requirements

  • Degree in food technology, chemistry or comparable
  • Ideally Master's or PhD thesis
  • Strong management and project execution experience
  • Ability to manage complex international operations
  • Beneficial experience in natural colors field
  • Strong leadership and project management skills
  • Proactive and creative innovation impulse generator
  • High analytical and conceptual competence
  • Desirable international customer engagement experience
  • Confident decision making and goal setting
  • Experience in people and subject leadership
  • Reliable and independent working style
  • Business acumen and commercial fluency
  • Experience with change management
  • Open and communicative nature

Tasks

  • Transform the unit into a global center of excellence
  • Align complex laboratory operations across three continents
  • Drive talent succession planning and organizational design
  • Lead and coach a multicultural, cross-border team
  • Develop the strategic innovation roadmap for market dominance
  • Optimize production processes for coloring products and formulations
  • Evaluate research results and provide recommendations for action
  • Lead R&D for food colors and coatings
  • Adapt existing products for pet food and cosmetics
  • Characterize new formulations using spectrophotometric and analytical methods
  • Translate analytical results into technical specification recommendations
  • Coordinate with product management, production, and quality assurance
  • Provide technical support for industrial production scaling
  • Bridge the gap between R&D and commercial strategy
  • Maintain and sharpen the raw material portfolio
  • Standardize processes and maintain market-oriented product data

Work Experience

  • approx. 4 - 6 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Benefits

Informal Culture

  • Friendly and informal atmosphere
  • Family-owned company
  • Flat hierarchies
  • Short communication channels
  • Helpful colleagues

Free or Subsidized Food

  • Contribution to future nutrition

Purpose-Driven Work

  • Opportunity to take responsibility

Modern Equipment

  • State-of-the-art technologies

Bonuses & Incentives

  • Anniversary payments
  • Special payments
  • Employee referral bonuses

Team Events

  • Christmas parties
  • Company events

Competitive Pay

  • Financial benefits

Corporate Discounts

  • IT leasing discounts
  • Mobile phone contract discounts
  • Shopping discounts
  • Travel discounts
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