Head of Development (m/f/d)
Shape the future of food service and retail - with strong leadership, organisational talent and a spirit of innovation.
Permanent
100%
Hybrid working time after coordination
01.04.2026
German
What we offer
We offer flexible working hours on a 4.5 day week, more than 30 days off a year and the option of working remotely one day a week.
Catering is very important to us, and the freshly prepared food served in our staff canteen is evidence of this for our employees.
Thanks to our travel allowance, good public transport connections and plenty of parking spaces for cars and bicycles, our employees can travel easily.
We offer professional development opportunities in an international environment. We offer a wide range of further training programmes and regular training courses on our training campus.
All employees have the opportunity to take advantage of sports, leisure and wellness programmes throughout Germany with HANSEFIT.
Our attractive additional financial benefits include a company pension scheme, holiday pay, special annual bonus, employee participation and anniversary payments.
Your tasks
Management & Organisation
- Overall responsibility for the development department at the Radolfzell site
- Ensuring efficient structures, clear processes and smooth workflows
- Planning and prioritising projects in line with company objectives
- Establishing and developing a high-performance, future-oriented organisation
- Management & employee development
- Technical and disciplinary management of a dedicated development team
- Promoting, coaching and targeted further development of employees
- Creating a culture of cooperation, personal responsibility and motivation
- Setting an example of a cooperative and appreciative management style
Project & process management
- Responsibility for planning, managing and implementing development projects
- Ensuring on-time results with high implementation quality
- Continuous optimisation of processes and interfaces
- Management and collaboration in cross-divisional projects
Market & trend understanding
- Observing and analysing market, consumer and technology trends
- Deriving and implementing relevant innovation approaches
- A keen sense of market needs in food service or retail
Cooperation & interface work
- Close cooperation with Production, Quality, Purchasing, Marketing and Sales
- Advising internal stakeholders on development-related topics
- Promotion of constructive cross-departmental collaboration
What you bring with you
- Several years of management experience in product development - preferably in food service or retail
- Proven experience in project management and process control
- Degree in food technology, process engineering, ecotrophology or similar
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach and develop talent
- High level of assertiveness and perseverance combined with a cooperative management style
- Strategic, structured and solution-orientated thinking
- Fluency in German and English
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This is what our application process looks like:
Thank you for your application! We have received your documents and will get back to you as soon as possible.
We would like to get to know you and your motivation better in the first introductory meeting – let us have a relaxed chat and find out together whether we are a good match.
In the second interview, we will get to know each other better and talk about your skills and the next steps at our company – we look forward to continuing our dialogue with you. For some positions, an assessment may still be required - if this is the case, you will be informed in good time.
Congratulations, you have won us over and we you! We are now finalising the process and look forward to welcoming you to our team soon.
