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Do you enjoy creating innovative product and technical solutions? To make innovation the driver for organic growth and build shareholder value by creating highly differentiated new products (Liquids), which satisfy consumer and customer needs. To drive competitive advantage through commercially focused technological innovation ensuring delivery of goals within budget informed by consumer & strategic science activity.

Join our Innovation, Research and Development Team

As a global leader in beverage alcohol, at Diageo, we’re proud of our collection of timeless brands including Johnnie Walker, Baileys, Guinness, Gordon’s and Smirnoff. APAC Innovation is led by a central team based in Shanghai, Sydney and Singapore, delivering across multiple APAC markets. Each market has differing levels of resource, capability and infrastructure to support the Innovation agendas. This role takes broad and sometimes unclear consumer information to create industry leading liquids across total beverage alcohol. Strong relationships across functions and markets are required to achieve end to end delivery.

We’re visionaries, researching and developing the liquids, packaging and products that shape our industry and much-loved brands. Our founders were incredible entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. Our Research and Development team continue this legacy, reimagining our brands for the world today.

At our state-of-the-art research facilities around the globe, we have a collaboration of innovative minds working together to develop the products and solutions of tomorrow. We welcome your specialist skills and inspiring ideas and will support you to grow and develop in our inclusive culture.

About this role

The individual is expected to lead multiple projects, initiatives and work streams for Innovation R&D team across APAC delivering significant in financial impact (NSV targets) whilst managing complex senior stakeholders with guidance from line manager and technical mentors.

Leveraging commercial and consumer insights, the individual will act as a source of technical and creative expertise on their cross functional project teams. The individual will recommend, design and influence the business to implement new product/ technical solutions for application in market.

You will be responsible for:

• Leads development of 5-7 products/year and/or the highest business priority projects.

• Consistently creates exceptional/winning liquids that meet KPI’s – enjoys creative work on the bench.

• Independently creates smart design and liquid strategy – Aligns strategy with manager, marketing and Sensory/Research Planner.

• Designs learning plan and interprets consumer/sensory learnings to deliver optimal liquid solutions within cost targets.

• Formulates creatively and balances the commercialisation requirements to ensure feasibility.

• Seeks out new ingredients and methods for better outputs and proactively shares information with fellow developers.

• With support, holds tension with supply to ensure quality of execution to shelf.

• Adheres to best practice/governance procedures with robust handover to supply from concept to commercialisation.

• Supports sales team with compelling concepts,/consumer insights, samples, technical information and sell in meetings where required.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Education - Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Engineering, Food Science, or related discipline required. Additional certifications including Masters preferred but not a must. Engineering or Applied Science Degree or recognised technical equivalent

• Experience – Requires 5+ years of relevant project and/or research experience (Food or Beverage) including doctoral or post-doctoral research. Proven track record of managing technical projects through to execution. Beverage development experience preferred.

Working with Us

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. 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.

Join us, and you'll be part of an organisation that embraces diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of — and help build — an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. And you'll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. You’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a sustainable and more inclusive future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's individual passions, commitments and specialist skills. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard, and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people. Join us and help to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

Worker Type :

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Primary Location:

Shanghai R&D

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-08-07

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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