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Schwan's Shared Services, LLC Director of Product Development in Bloomington, Minnesota
Manage development of frozen food such as Asian dumplings & snacks, and processed meat products design such as ingredients, recipe development, process design and cost savings, and find the innovative items for the future growth; manage and support the research and develop work for the Asian processed foods by leveraging the all R&D resources in US; manage, communicate and facilitate synergy projects between the company and foreign headquarter R&D globally; manage and support the Technology Synergy projects between the company and foreign headquarter to lead the US Foods Business growth by technology exchange in R&D; manage and support the Process Synergy projects regarding the Stage Gate Process improvement in all R&D organization in US by leveraging Schwan's and CJ's NPD process; facilitate & coordinate Synergy Projects team in each subsidiary in US for each project to execute and achieve the goal within the recorded time; participate in all synergy project teams to support the continuous collaboration and communication; responsible to ensure subordinates conduct themselves in a manner consistent with company mission, values, code of ethics, policies, and other standards of conduct; and manage product development for food service and retail by planning short-term and long-term projects, hiring R&D professionals, instructing subordinates to survey food markets and competitor products, devising plans for commercialization, and researching new food categories and possibility of innovative product items.