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About the Role

As a Quality / R&D Manager, you will connect product quality and technological product understanding. You will ensure our products meet high quality standards, from laboratory analyses and complaints to root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize recipes and transfer product requirements into technologically stable and reproducible solutions with production partners.
• Understand the functional properties and interactions of various raw materials and assess their influence on processing, texture, stability, and product quality.
• Accompany sampling and production trials with production partners and evaluate results from a technological perspective.
• Be responsible for product-related quality issues for the existing product portfolio and new products, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and high quality standards.
• Process quality deviations and complaints, conduct root cause analyses, and manage appropriate corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) through to follow-up.
• Conduct product investigations and plan, coordinate, and evaluate laboratory analyses as well as stability and shelf-life studies.
• Create and maintain product specifications and test parameters, and be responsible for goods receipt and release processes.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Team, production and fulfillment partners, and external laboratories.

Requirements

• Completed degree in Food Technology, Food Chemistry, Food Process Engineering, Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a comparable scientific-technical field.
• Several years of professional experience in the food, pet food, supplement, or functional food industry – ideally in product development, R&D, food technology, or quality management.
• Practical experience in industrial manufacturing and experience accompanying production trials, sampling, or process optimizations directly on the line or with production partners.
• Very good practical understanding of recipes, raw materials, functional ingredients, and production processes, as well as their influence on processing, stability, and product quality.
• Experience in quality assurance and quality control, ideally including laboratory analytics, complaint processing, CAPA, and release processes.
• Good knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements in food or feed law.
• High willingness to travel and flexibility for short-notice on-site appointments with partners.
• Analytical, structured, and solution-oriented working style.
• Very good German and English language skills.

Skills

• Product quality
• Technological product understanding
• Laboratory analyses
• Complaint management
• Root cause analysis
• Recipe development
• Process optimization
• Raw material understanding
• Quality assurance
• Quality control
• Regulatory compliance
• CAPA management
• Product specifications
• Product investigations
• Stability studies
• Shelf-life studies

Location

• Germany

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Multiple years of professional experience

Education Level

• Degree in Food Technology, Food Chemistry, Food Process Engineering, Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or comparable scientific-technical field

About the Company

• We are mammaly! Our mission is healthy and happy dogs! We develop premium supplements for dogs that enable a long and good life.
• Founded in 2020, mammaly is already the leading pet supplement startup in Germany.
• We are committed to high social and ecological standards and have been a certified B Corp company since 2023.