Director, External Innovation & Partnering

Company: AgHires
Location: Hanover
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

The primary responsibilities of this role, Director External Innovation and Partnering, are to:

• Work on co-development of external innovation strategy for the category and the regional local pearls;
• Understand category, consumer and innovation trends to initiate, develop and deliver mid-long-term external innovation for the categories and short-midterm external innovation for the regional local pearls;
• Identify and provide initial scientific evaluation of new technologies, ingredients and trends and their market applications;
• Make surveillance of emerging technologies that could impact existing brands;
• Execute the external innovation process based on the want/find/get/manage approach thereby support Business Development and Licensing (BD&L), Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and procure to acquire rights to opportunities;
• Build strategic partnerships for innovation with external parties, including the evaluation of in-licensing and acquisition opportunities;
• Play a key role in understanding the category / regional ecosystem and partners who operationally or strategically contribute to reach the pipeline goals;
• Manage, design, organize and co-ordinate events with ecosystem partners, co-ordinate Bayeru00b4s presence at major innovation events;
• Lead a team of tech scouts who support entire EIP team;
• Drive partner of choice program across EIP/ Research and Development (R&D). Sign Up for Job Alerts & AgHires Email Newsletter By clicking this button, you consent to receive emails about new jobs that relate to your search criteria. Remember: you can cancel these email alerts at any time.

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