**Job Purpose and Impact** The Director, R&D - North Asia Food will will lead and develop a team of technical service and application team based in China and Japan in Cargill Food Enterprise’s North Asia Group. In this role, you will cultivate a customer centric culture to develop solutions with deep understanding of customer needs. You will work with commercial system to improve the effectiveness of innovation process and ensure a focused and healthy innovation pipeline that supports short to longer term business needs. You will lead TS/Application team to upgrade category capabilities for new business opportunities and enhancing the competitiveness of technical solutions in North Asia Food business markets (China, Japan, and South Korea). **Key Accountabilities** • Partner with commercial leaders (GTM, Category and Product Line, etc) in North Asia Food Group to implement customer segmentation strategy and lead the R&D team to develop and execute customer development plans for key accounts. • Develop strong relationships with customers and coach TS team in strengthening customer connection and translating customer needs to technical solutions. • Ensure balanced and differentiated technical support to core business, and build value added business by developing category capabilities and providing strategic advice to business leaders. • Be on the leadership team of North Asia Food business, and develop business targets for R&D teams on annual basis that is aligned with NA’s Group AOP and long term growth plan. • Manage R&D resource prioritization, people development, and talent management, including, training, budgeting, and compliant with applicable human resource regulations. • Other duties as assigned **Qualifications** **Minimum Qualifications** • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience • Confirmed experience with ingredient technical services, applications or a similar discipline • Minimum of eight years of related work experience, five years of supervisory experience • Other minimum qualifications may apply **Preferred Qualifications** • Doctorate degree **PRIOR BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCES** • Lead the application center, ensuring a safe working environment, food safety compliance, budget and resource management. • Engage talents in R&D and cross functional team thru transformation in a global company **KEY BEHAVIORS** • Stay focus on what matters for business in a complex business environment • Continuously improve existing capability and process in order to reach higher • Be able to deal with ambiguity to address needs with agility and conviction **SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES TO BE GAINED** • Partner with regional business, Cargill’s innovation ecosystem and external stakeholders to identify and develop innovations and support business growth • Lead a critical function in transformation of a global business and support the business growth with programs and cultural shift.