- Research and investigate innovation concepts, assessing technical and commercial feasibility beyond existing product formats and categories.
- Work with formulators and R&D teams to understand concepts, scientific foundations, technical requirements, and constraints.
- Conduct structured feasibility analyses covering technical viability, manufacturing, cost, regulation, timelines, and commercial potential.
- Identify, vet, and manage vendors, contract manufacturers, labs, consultants, and specialists; prepare RFQs and manage the quote and award process.
- Develop business cases, COGS build-ups, MOQ and landed-cost scenarios, pricing and margin models, break-even volumes, and capital estimates.
- Manage project plans, budgets, timelines, milestones, and stakeholder communications across concurrent initiatives.
- Own concept intake, initial screening, prioritization, stage-gate reviews, phase budgets, and kill criteria.
- Assess patent landscape, freedom to operate, ingredient regulatory status, label and claims substantiation, and non-ingestible product considerations.
- Coordinate samples, pilot and scale-up trials, stability and shelf-life testing, sensory evaluation, analytical methods, and draft specifications.
- Drive greenlit concepts through first commercial production and hand off complete specifications, vendor agreements, cost models, and documentation.
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