Senior Product Design and Development Manager
Twine, Netherlands
Job Description
About Twine
We're a thriving ecosystem of top-tier freelancers from around the world. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley startups, Twine is the go-to platform for mission-critical projects. Twine's experts get to participate in generating quality datasets at an unprecedented scale. With over half a million registered freelancers and a growing roster of 35,000+ companies, we've become the comprehensive solution for all things freelancing.
Our Mission
At Twine, we recognize that companies require a flexible approach to hiring expert freelancers for their most critical projects. Traditional freelance platforms often fall short when it comes to scalability and diversity. That's where we shine. Twine operates as a thriving global freelance network, with diverse experts across various fields, including marketing, engineering, and AI. Our core mission is to empower creators, whether they're businesses or individual freelancers, to thrive in their creative endeavours.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Product Design and Development Manager to join the Powder amp; Plant Based team. As part of your responsibilities, you will cooperate across functional lines as the Senior Product Developer to design and produce these goods for launch. The products must be created with an integrated design process that takes into account all business requirements (regulations, customer needs, nutrition standards, COGS, etc.), integrating an SN and FMCG approach.
Requirements
- Ensure that formulas adhere to robust design principles, that risk mitigation measures are in place, and that all paperwork in accordance with our Fuel for Growth methodology is completed.
- Capable of anticipating risks and issues and proposing proactive solutions
- Incorporation of Product Performance Success Criteria including nutritional, sensory, physical, and chemical requirements to meet end-user objectives in proposed solutions
- Ensures new and reformulated products can be implemented on a production scale and that targeted product performance as well as operational efficiencies are achieved
- Engage with cross-functional team members to deliver tangible outcomes amp; milestones, with a high focus on quality in execution, safeguarding the Fuel for Growth’s fundamental role
- Working closely with Specification Management on raw material selection
- Provide a recommendation and path ahead for our processes and products through close collaboration with the Quality, Medical and Nutritional Science, and Regulatory teams
- Lead a conversation to identify possibilities for continuous improvement in working methods/knowledge capture and place them in teams
- Lessons learned (technical, working methods, leadership) and shared with relevant groups