Head of Scale Up Management (m/f/d)

Reference ID: 42606

Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?

We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.

Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.

Your Role

• Define, govern and enforce the global Scale-Up Steering Model, ensuring standardized blueprints and consistent process execution across all production sites
• Provide functional leadership to local Scale-Up Specialists, ensuring alignment between global standards and local operational execution
• Act as the final decision authority to approve or reject deviations from global scale-up standards, safeguarding the One Global Standard approach
• Bridge Development and Operations by managing the physical transfer of recipes from line-specific Master Recipes (SAP PP-PI) into first production
• Lead and govern First Production runs, ensuring products meet quality standards within the first three process orders (First Time Right)
• Serve as gatekeeper for industrial feasibility of new technologies (TtP), consulting on the Process Data Package and owning process parameter validation after equipment commissioning
• Collaborate closely with the Head of Recipe Management to validate Resource Operation Standards, ensuring system-defined technical attributes are physically enforceable on the shop floor (MES/Automation alignment)
• Define mandatory Master Data requirements and ensure master data accuracy during the development-to-production implementation phase
• Define, track, and drive key functional KPIs, with a strong focus on First Time Right (FTR) for new product introductions and Yield for continuous improvement
• Establish and manage a structured feedback loop to the Recipe Desk, systematically reporting deviations or non-viable parameters to trigger formulation updates in SAP PP-PI
• Lead root-cause analyses for scale-up failures and translate insights into sustainable improvements across the development-to-production process
• Proactively shape recipe structures to embed Quality by Design, providing continuous feedback to Development teams and Global Recipe Management to align formulations with industrial capabilities

Your Profile

• Degree in Food Technology, Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering or a comparable technical discipline
• 8–10 years of professional experience in Process Technology, Production Management or R&D Industrialization
• At least 5 years of leadership experience, ideally within a matrix organization
• Profound knowledge of SAP PP-PI and MES systems
• Strong understanding of industrial scale-up processes, master data governance and manufacturing execution
• Confident decision-maker with the ability to balance global standards and local operational realities
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across functions and regions

Your Benefits

• Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues
• Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
• Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
• Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
• Anniversary and special payments
• Employee referral bonuses
• Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts, etc.)

Equal opportunities for all

We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Become a part of our team and apply online trough our career portal to the attention of Luisa Rhein. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.