Job Description
Job Title - Head- Product & Process Research
About us With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About the Function:
Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our muchloved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations. Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.
Role Responsibilities:
Qualification: Ph.D. ( Biochemistry/Chemistry)
Experience: Strong industrial research experience (15 years or more) in relevant FMCG, Diary Industry, Flavour Industry, Alco Bev (Post Doc: not essential but desired)
Skills and capabilities:
1. Strong leadership quality
• In depth knowledge of process chemistry & biocehmistry of flavour generation from natural raw material processing . Individual must have hands- on experience in the area of Flavour precursor biosysnthesis, enzymatic flavour formation, volatile organic compounds & flavour interactions with matrix . Idividual must have an appreciation for certain areas of process biochemistry in addition to the above. These include Biocatalysis, fermentation technology, bioprocess engineering, Systems biology. Individual must be wellversed with recent technological advancements in all the above areas.
• Demonstrated experience in achieving research goals
• Strategic research plan and timely execution for the business growth
Responsibilities:
2. S&T Program:
• Develop S&T Project pipeline ( raw material- grains and agri waste streams, yeast, precursors and enzymes application for flavour block generation across grain and malt spirit, sustanability in operations through water and carbon, value generation from waste streams, distillary digitization) by driving multi-disciplinary actions within various scientific as well as technological areas to fulfil current as well as future business needs
• Design and deliver S&T Projects OTIF for innovation, productivity, capability and future sustainability of the business
• Ensure deployment of projects across the various geographies of the business
• Coach, guide and mentor the team so that projects are completed as per timelines and challenges encountered by the team are tackled
• Coordinate and work closely with, liquid innovation, sensory and consumer insights, manufacturing, sourcing and innovation to ensure smooth functioning of projects
• Drive a culture of collaboration by running projects with cross functional teams as well as with external collaborators on exploring open innovation opportunities.
Productivity initiatives:
Maturation Chemistry :
Maturation of Spirits - technlogy applications
• Lead science and scale up program ( also involving new age technology application) of various spirits maturation projects for Malts and grains For Grains platform
• Lead development and running of alcohol yield process improvement projects in lab and demonstrating the Proof of Concept (POC) at pilot level Capability improvements: Analytical methods for assessing various markers of quality of spirits
• Technology scan and methodology development for analytical markers. Development and standardization of various new age tools and provide analytical guidance to various research and innovation programs Liquid Innovation Projects
• Responsible for providing S&T based solutions to the Liquid Innovation team during their new liquid Development Open Innovation with External Collaborator (Industry or Academia)
• Responsible for running projects with external collaborators & evaluation of its progress at every stage of development Scientific inputs to Regulatory and DST renewal
• Responsible for reviewing regulatory documents and providing inputs Ensure yearly filing of DST returns through new S&T projects.
Vendor development with Sourcing
• Support the sourcing function with scientific insights that helps techno-commercial evolution of raw material vendors
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.
Diversity statement
Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills, and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.