Director, Business Innovation

This is a unique opportunity to take the innovation lead as FOSS’ new Director, Business Innovation. FOSS is the global leader within analytical equipment for the food & agricultural industries. This is your chance to join an innovation-driven company on a mission to improve quality, sustainability, and safety of the World’s food & agricultural production.

You will set the direction for innovation & business development

As Director, Business Innovation you will lead an organization of 30+ highly skilled and motivated employees who work on the early stages of innovation projects in close collaboration with FOSS’ Business Units and R&D. You will have three managers reporting to you who are leading the:

• Corporate Business Development team
• Solution Innovation team
• Leap Innovation team

In Business Innovation, we are eager to understand our customers and merge deep market and technology understanding into innovative concepts that solve customer problems and grow FOSS’ business. Your organization is responsible for developing FOSS’ business strategies and executing on them through innovation.

You will be reporting to SVP, Marketing & Front-End Innovation and your peers are Business Unit Directors and Marketing managers who are eager to drive the innovation and growth agenda with you. Further, you and your organization will be collaborating closely with R&D on managing the innovation pipeline to execute on our growth strategies. Being first in bringing innovations to the market is a core value and our pursuit for innovation is relentless. In Business Innovation, we have a dynamic and creative environment with a lot of touchpoints across the entire organization.

You are a seasoned leader with a high drive for innovation and business development

You have a high drive and energy around solving customers’ real-life problems through innovation and your creative mindset is complemented with your ability to execute. Your passion for leadership shows itself when you get the whole team to work together to reach our shared goals and you have a high level of personal integrity and resilience. You build close and trustful relationships with stakeholders across the organization spanning technical and business fields and you are used to working in an international environment.

In addition, we imagine that you have the following skills and characteristics:

• Master’s degree within technical/technological field
• 7+ years in leadership roles incl. experience with management of managers
• High level of business acumen
• Solid experience with innovation management and a creative mindset
• Technological flair and understanding

Experience with food & agri industries and CAPEX goods businesses are considered a plus. We expect around 20 travel days per year.

Apply now to make an impact in a global leader within food & agri analytics

If you want to make an impact on innovation for the food & agriculture industries, then go ahead and apply for the position as Director, Business Innovation. For further questions, please contact SVP, Christian Rosenkrantz de Lasson on [email protected].

FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo or age in your application.

FOSS

Today, more than 8 billion people around the world are dependent on nutritional food. Tons of food being produced in a million different ways and under varying conditions, creating challenges all the way from field to fork. One of them, obviously, being the effects it has on climate change. FOSS helps the world’s 100 biggest food companies and more than 40,000 others around the world navigate exactly that with intelligent, data-driven and innovative analytical solutions. We are making sustainability a better business and we’re doing so as global market leader in our field – improving food quality, minimizing food waste, ensuring food safety, and securing fair payment. Join a pioneering and innovative company in the food and agriculture industry. A company on a mission, with offices all around the world and 1,700 talented colleagues from more than 32 different countries.

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