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Head - Research & Development - Agriculture Chemical Firm (15-25 yrs)
Key Responsibilities :
1. Strategic :
- Define short and long term R&D research areas and come out with a product roll out plan.
- Develop the R&D strategic plan and drive innovation.
- Understanding/evaluating global strategic alliances' products and technologies.
- Keep an eye on changing market needs / reshaping of Sustainable Agriculture practices and aligning new products as per the needs.
- Actively participating in various industry forums and contributing articles to various technical magazines.
- Developing R& D architecture, processes, recruiting right people, and portfolio.
2. Financial :
- Strategize and lead the SPN R&D and come out with new and differentiated product availability along with time lines for annual budgeting exercise of the Specialty Plant Nutrition business.
- Actively participating and coming out with R&D long and short term plans.
3. Customer/ External Orientation:
- Keeping in touch with the changing patterns of farmer preferences, identifying challenges faced by the farmers and ensuring that R&D is aligned accordingly.
- Coming out with right positioning strategies for new products based on the benefits products are expected to deliver.
- Seeking active feedback from the market on product performance and incorporating the necessary changes to the recipes.
4. People Orientation:
- Strengthen R&D employee engagement and cultivate culture of high performance
- Ensure regular review of team performance and provide development inputs through identification of training needs and nominating for training programs.
- Ensuring that R&D and Production plants Quality Assurance teams work in tandem.
5. Core operational accountabilities:
- R&D in various upcoming Specialty Nutrition space
- Identification of new research areas / coming out with in-house developed technology platforms.
- Planning & review of product trials with evaluation Team
- Identify horizontal/vertical research areas in Water Soluble, Biofertilisers, Biostimulants, Nano Fertilisers and Slow & Controlled release Fertilisers space.
- Thoroughly understanding FCO/Biostimulants/Nano Fertilisers and other policies and ensuring that all new products strictly adhere to the norms.
- Responsible for accreditation of R&D facilities of highest government authorities.
- Presenting new products to all stake holders from time to time as per Stage & Gate policy
- Liaison with government authorities/product approval committees /Industry associations to include new products/new technologies and registration of in-house developed products by submitting required dossiers.
- Bringing new technologies to speed up product evaluation
- National and international research institutes/ universities tie ups for new technologies/ technical transfers for entering into new research areas and developing upcoming products
- Commercialization strategies
- Prioritization of New products roll out
- Arriving at right raw material sources which enhances product efficiency at the same time optimizes the product cost.
- Arriving at R&D budgetary requirements and year wise new products roll out plan.
- Quality Assurance
o Set up QC/QA labs at various mfg facilities
o Placing SOPs and Ensuring for Quality of all manufactured and third party products
o Continuously working on enhancing the existing product range quality in discussions with R&D teams as well as third party suppliers
Technical Knowledge :
- Ph.D in Micro Biology/Biotechnology/ Soil Science /Agronomy with minimum 20 years research experience in a reputed company and min 5 yrs experience of spear heading R&D , Product innovation and development in Specility Plant Nutrition area
- Process setup for manufacturing of in-house developed products
- Good Knowledge of Plant physiology, agriculture products and cropping patterns
- Discovery / New product Development processes/ systems.
- Knowledge on Equipment / Infrastructure for setting up R& D facilities or enhancing existing infrastructure.
- Membership/ participation in National/International Conferences/ Trade Fairs
Competencies :
- Thinks Strategically and Acts Decisively (PL3)
- Agile Towards Change and Innovation (PL3)
- Executes Efficiently (PL3)
- Builds a Performance & Development Culture (PL3)
- Focused on Achieving Results (PL3)
- Builds Partnership with Stakeholders (PL3)
- Product Development (ModulePL3)
- Analytical skills
- Communication & Writing skills
- Team Management
- Ability to see big picture
- Envisioning new product development from start to finish
- Ability to pay attention to details
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