As Director R&D you will shape RKW's innovation worldwide at Group level across all three segments. Furthermore you act as interface to the business needs and sales considerations to develop new consumer centric solutions.

• Business owner of the innovation process, leading the Group R&D department and coordinating the R&D segment’s priorities
• Set out a clear innovation strategy with KPIs and performance score cards to deliver the profitable growth targets in line with the company strategy
• Lead and deliver corporate level innovation projects 
• Create separate innovation, R&D, Application Engineering and sustainability pipelines. Create a meeting cadence with Sales, Marketing, Operations and other stakeholders to provide prioritization
• Make decisions on a funnel of active projects balancing the resources versus the pipeline needs to cover the strategy growth initiatives, sustainability targets, quality improvements, cost out projects, Application Engineering priorities
• Manage active stage gate projects in all above pipelines, provide solutions to possible segment barriers, and create scorecards to show stage gate process effectiveness improvements
• Coordinate internal and external product development, technical product management and the assigned technical experts/services
• Provide IP service for the whole group to secure competitive advantages in line with an established IP process