Director, Core Product/Process Innovation, Innovation

Who You Are

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Bakery Science, Food Science or Food Engineering, 15 - 20 years of bakery research and development and/or bakery operations work experience.
• Extensive experience in product/process analysis, design and commercialization required.
• Bakery pilot and production plant experience specific to design, operations and testing required.
• Proven experience in data analysis and statistical evaluation.
• Knowledge and experience of directing product development processes and consumer testing.
• Ability to formulate bakery products in written form to produce food specifications.
• Ability to work with food and operate food processing equipment in restaurant environment.
• Ability to work any position in Little Caesar restaurant.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Subject Matter Expert in the Bakery Industry.
• Subject Matter Expert in restaurant Operations, Little Caesars Operations is a plus.
• Leads analysis of restaurant operations time motion data to identify and solve for simplification, labor savings and improvement to consistency of product and execution processes.
• Initiates projects by developing sell-in model and presentation, presenting to leadership to gain approval and alignment on success metrics.
• Collaborates with Operations, Suppliers, Finance, Franchisees, Equipment, and Development to deliver economically viable solutions that impact the restaurants by reducing labor hours and increasing bottom line operating income.
• Develops and recommends suppliers and manufacturers for new and existing product, ingredients, restaurant equipment, and supplier’s production equipment/lines.
• Led project management and development of project test plan, scale up and commercialization with clearly identified key metrics and decision gates associated with business case development.
• Proactively engages with the bakery industry through networking, industry conferences, supplier visits, trade shows and trade journals to continually build and evolve knowledge.
• Collaborates with Consumer Research to ensure consumer validation of product associated with process, equipment and/or production line changes.
• Key metrics identified, communicated and aligned upon at the beginning of the project with leadership updates at key decision points throughout the business case development.
• Develops product and process specifications.
• Works in Little Caesar Restaurants to continue to be an expert in the operations side of the business.

Where You’ll Work

• Works in R&D/Innovation office and test kitchen.
• Field work in manufacturing plants.
• Travel by car or airplane to stores and various locations (domestic and globally) for supplier visits/tours, ideation sessions, field food product testing, competition research and company business conference.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

N/A