Concept Developer – (maternity cover 9-10 months)

at  Foss

CUSTOMER VALUE AS DRIVER - FROM BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY TO TANGIBLE SOLUTION CONCEPT

We are looking for a maternity cover for our Solution Innovation team. Our Concept Developers work closely with our Business Developers to lead the process of transforming business opportunities into tangible and executable solutions concepts.
Working with both customers and 14 departments across FOSS, the Concept Developer defines and matures the solution idea and validates the specifications. The Concept Developer acts as glue between all functions in the organization and makes sure we keep a constant focus on what creates value for the customer.

DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN CREATING THE FUTURE SOLUTIONS TO DRIVE QUALITY, SAFETY, AND SUSTAINABILITY ACROSS THE FOOD INDUSTRY?

FOSS solutions are used by thousands of food industry customers around the world to drive their decisions on food quality, safety, and sustainability. FOSS constantly seeks to develop innovative solutions to provide insight and transparency throughout the global food and agricultural supply chain – in fact we commit over 10% of our revenue each year to funding our innovation activities.
So, as a Concept Developer at FOSS, you will have a unique opportunity to use your creativity, experience and collaboration skills across the food and agriculture industry.

You will have a big influence in defining your own working approach on each innovation project. You will always need to think one step ahead of the team to drive the maturation and decision-making during conceptualization. Therefore, most daily tasks will be centered around understanding the customers and their needs, exploring and clarifying value-adding solution designs, and de-risking the project:

• Explore and understand customers’ processes and needs
• Facilitate cross functional ideation/conceptualisation workshops
• Coordinate and facilitate technical proof of principle studies to justify new solutions
• Building of early-stage mock-ups and pretotypes
• Product/UX design – workflows, wireframes, sketches, etc.
• Define system requirements and document their business impact for later developmen