The Product ChangeManagement Leader leads endâtoâend governance, evaluation, and execution of productârelated changes across Kalsec’s global product portfolio and all manufacturing locations, ensuring that every modification—whether driven by innovation, supply continuity, cost optimization, or regulatory shifts—is thoroughly evaluated, assessed for global risk, and supported by clear, timely decisionâmaking and disciplined implementation. This role blends technical expertise with strong crossâfunctional leadership to ensure that ingredient and product changes protect consumer and food safety, product quality, regulatory compliance, and brand trust, while delivering key business outcomes including zero disruption to product quality or compliance during ingredient transitions, high crossâfunctional alignment and confidence in the changemanagement process, and improved speedâtoâimplementation without compromising safety, quality, or regulatory standards.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
Process
Lead the global ingredient and product changemanagement process, ensuring all changes follow established governance, risk assessment, and documentation protocols
Ensure compliance with global food regulations, including labeling, claims, and allergen disclosure requirements
Oversee supplierâdriven ingredient changes, ensuring proper validation, testing, and communication across internal teams
Develop and maintain change control workflows that ensure transparency, traceability, and timely decisionâmaking
Serve as global process owner for product and rawâmaterialârelated changes, including:
New Product Introductions
Product transfers between manufacturing locations in Europe, Pacific, and North America
Raw material approvals, replacements, and alternates
Changes to finishedâgood formulas, tests, and attributes of existing codes
Strategy
Develop strategies, plans, and crossâfunctional coordination to continuously improve ChangeManagement processes and the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) database
Lead improvement initiatives and report on process outcomes and performance metrics
Align prioritization of businessâcritical and urgent changes to drive agility, speedâtoâmarket, and customer responsiveness
Evaluate technologies and system capabilities to enhance business processes and PLM functionality
Oversee PLM software enhancements to ensure product changes are fully documented and visible across systems
Structure and Implementation
Schedule and lead ChangeManagement meetings, including agenda preparation, material development, action tracking, and followâup on delays
Lead specific highâpriority and highâvisibility projects emerging from ChangeManagement governance forums
Lead crossâfunctional impact assessments to evaluate technical, operational, financial, regulatory, and customerâfacing implications of product changes
Manage communication and documentation for all formulation changes, including approvals, timelines, and downstream impacts
Coordinate with Sales, Business Unit leaders, and Regulatory teams on customer notification strategies
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years related experience as an individual contributor and 3+ years of people/process managerial experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience in manufacturing, R&D, quality, regulatory, or supply chain roles
Education in Food Science, Chemistry, Engineering, or a related field
Working understanding of global food regulations
Experience with change control processes and systems (PLM, ERP, or similar)
Demonstrated ability to lead crossâfunctional teams and influence through matrixed organizations
Exceptional analytical and problemâsolving skills with a structured approach to risk assessment and management
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to translate technical details into business impacts
Desired
Advanced degree
Strong food industry experience
Experience working with regulatory agencies (FDA, USDA, EU, Codex, etc.)
Working Conditions:
Up to 10% travel, including some international travel
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