About this role
Job Description:
Titre : Solution Validation Designer H/F/X.
Segment : Royal Canin.
Contrat : CDI. Permanent. On site.
Localisation : Aimargues
To support Royal Canin to become a Health through Nutrition Company, R&D team has an ambition: Step change the longevity and quality of life of cats and dogs by offering personalized, proactive, predictive and participatory health through nutrition solutions.
What are we looking for?
Education & Professional Qualifications:
- MSc (Engineer B+5) and/or DMV
- Fluent in English
Knowledge / Experience:
- Person has experienced in external Cat & Dog panels (agencies) and/or facilities and /or Breeders/ and Clinical Trials
- Knowledge of R&D, Markets/Marketing, Supply chain (Logistics)
- Comfortable with data management and communications
- Minimum 3 years’ experience
- Petcare methodology knowledge
What are your key responsibilities ?
Explore animal needs of the new project to generate insights and opportunities in Pre-quest
- Initiate & Identify insight coming from the field to anticipate the future needs
- Deep dive on what is missing today to succeed
- Collect data from the field and update knowledge with research team.
- Anticipate potential study to explore new territory and long-term study on commercial product to fill the gap
- Support the Solution Designer to shape our innovations for cats and dogs in order to answer to customers and pet owners’ needs.
Lead and define Solution Performance studies
- Build and align with the Pet & Product Scientist as well as marketing the performance plan for new solutions to be able to support claims and Product KQA and to prove the efficacy of the solution globally.
- Select and recruit international partners for the clinical studies
- Coordinate documents submission to the Royal Canin Scientific Advisory Committee and to Ethics Committee
- Plan to ensure Solution Performance studies delivery on time
Monitor and deploy Solution performance studies
- Help to Supply products to monitor Product Performance studies
- Organize and coordinate all internal validation and external clinical product performance tests
- Monitor the Product Performance study budget
- Compile the clinical study report and the statistical power of the results
- Create the clinical data sheet
- Standardized the protocol to be used by the local market
- Review and communicate validation of the product performance to all stakeholders
- Collect test and learn for the future project and anticipate vigilance field trial (phase 4 post launch)
Maintain and develop relationships with internal & external partners
- Maintain international relationships with external agencies, collaborate with markets to network with Cat and Dog breeders/KOLs in all regions, and guarantee the image of Royal Canin R&D expertise in Dog and Cat world.
- Contribute to the community of practice to maintain the foundation of the animal trial best practices (SOP, Target, methodologies).