Technical Product Manager

We are seeking a skilled Food Scientist/Food Technologist with a strong beverage development background to drive customer-focused product development activities, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with market and customer needs. This is a full time, onsite position based in our Princeton, NJ office. Standard working hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, hours may occasionally vary depending on business needs and workload.

Your role:

• Drive the product development activities along the different Lead to Order (LtO) stages in close collaboration with Sales • Act as a technical expert providing guidance and insight during customer briefs and meetings to ensure technical alignment to client needs • Being "technical" is an integral part of the opportunity team for all customer projects (LtO), responsible for prioritizing incoming brief/projects and project manage/controlling as well as checking product requests for technical feasibility • Participate in tastings for product development • In this role, you will collaborate closely with Sales and Business Units, as well as local and global D&A/R&D teams, to ensure customer needs are met • Identifying gaps in the product range and establishing and constantly updating the product sub-range in collaboration with Application and Business Unit’s to deliver suitable product solutions in line with the given requirements into the LtO / for our customers • Attend, participate customer visits and workshops taking…