Your Role:

We are looking for a
NPD Wet Technical Lead
for the
R&D;
team, who will report to the
Wet Development Manager
. In this role, you will be a key technical expert in wet petfood, ensuring high-quality execution of innovation and renovation projects. You will strengthen the team’s wet-technology capabilities, support wet developers working on innovation projects, and enhance overall technical excellence in product design for performance, nutritional and functional claims.

You will be the lead developer for the most innovative concepts, technical advisor for developers and tactical coordinator for wet project portfolio.

What you will do:

Wet Product Development & Formulation
- Provide expert guidance on formulation, performance, nutrition, and functionality of wet products, complementing the company’s stronger historical expertise in dry.
- Develop and optimize wet food recipes that are fully aligned with consumer needs and brand positioning, efficient in terms of production and cost, high-performing and compliant with nutritional requirements.




- Review and validate nutrient levels, analytical expectations, and formulation constraints specific to wet technologies.
- Support ideation and opportunity scouting with Innovation teams.
- Support external developments together with Marketing and Procurement.
- Contribute to recipe cost optimization with Formulation and Procurement teams.
- Collaborate with factories, external pilot plants and 3PMs to ensure feasibility of wet recipes under real processing conditions, prepare and monitor industrial trials, validate product quality, texture and monitor industrial trials, validate product quality, texture, palatability, microbiology and shelf life.
- Support creation and update of specifications, control plans, and technical.

Product Performance Expertise (Wet Palatability)
- Apply and interpret wet-food-specific palatability protocols, including: technical solution selection and integration, interface with sensory

📌 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WET TECHNICAL LEAD (Barcelona)
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