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).