Head of Food (Product Development & Nutrition), Marro

📋 Description

• Own palatability performance. Define what winning looks like, measure it rigorously, and keep
• Be obsessive about why customers pause because of the food, and relentlessly reduce it, using pause
• Own the product development strategy and its longer-term vision: where the range goes, what we
• Turn the product development strategy into a prioritised multi-year roadmap grounded in customer
• Make the call on trade-offs between nutrition, palatability, quality, cost and manufacturability
• Own the Marro budget for trials, palatability and sensory testing, external specialists and

🎯 Requirements

• You're obsessed with outcomes. You judge success by whether cats love the food and customers stay
• You really know cat food. You have deep expertise in feline nutrition, ingredients, formulation
• You have great product judgment. You balance nutrition, palatability, quality, customer
• You set direction. You've shaped product strategy, not just delivered against a roadmap.
• You bring people with you. You lead cross-functional work with confidence and influence senior
• You're hands-on with the food. You're in the kitchen tasting, running trials and evaluating product

🎁 Benefits

• Equity option package
• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays), 5 paws days and an additional day every year of service
• £500 personal learning & development budget
• Butternut Box / Marro employee discount
• Subsidised Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Cycle to work scheme