Head of Food (Product Development & Nutrition), Marro

📋 Description

• Own the product development strategy and its longer-term vision: where the range goes, what we
• Turn it into a prioritised multi-year roadmap grounded in customer insights, scientific evidence
• 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
• Build the business case for product changes, covering recipe cost, margin, savings and customer
• Be our leading expert on feline nutrition, ingredients, formulation, processing, palatability and

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in feline nutrition, ingredients, formulation, processing, sensory and palatability.
• Great product judgment: balance nutrition, palatability, quality, customer expectations
• Shaped product strategy, not just delivered against a roadmap.
• Lead cross-functional work with confidence and influence senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on with the food: tasting, running trials and evaluating product yourself.
• Scientifically curious: love getting into evidence, working with specialists and turning new

🎁 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