Innovation Analyst: Consumer Packaged Goods and Food Focus
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Do you believe in the power of innovation to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Are you passionate about technology? Are you interested in helping our clients create value-adding products to meet customer preferences and trends? Do you want to work for a mission-driven organization filled with smart people who are passionate about what they do and who want to make the world a better place?
If yes, you may be the right person to join RTI Innovation Advisors (RTIIA). Our team has been helping clients solve their toughest technology and innovation challenges for more than 50 years. We help our clients innovate by building innovation capacity, providing insight, and accelerating technology from lab to market. Anchored within a non-profit research institute, the Innovation Advisors deliver consulting services and analyses that are rooted in research.
We’re looking for a driven, enthusiastic team member to help conduct the research that helps launch products and services into the market, inform important decisions, and forge commercialization partnerships. This is a consulting role where you will conduct primary and secondary market research, analyze and synthesize insights, and deliver these insights to clients. You will primarily support clients operating in the consumer packaged goods, food, and beverage spaces. Our work is fast paced, challenging, and varied. We’re looking for someone who has experience in corporate food and beverage R&D, consumer packaged goods, personal care products, or packaging. Though the position is office-based, team members will apply their technical skills towards solving challenging research questions, including those in the fields of sustainable packaging, manufacturing, and more.
We share your drive to make the world better and your desire for work with purpose: to solve challenges facing science and society, and to learn and grow in a diverse and inclusive global environment. We make that happen by investing in you—dynamic professional development, employee wellness, and world-class benefits which include paid parental leave and childcare subsidies. We will empower you to accomplish our shared mission.
Responsibilities:
The analyst will work alongside and receive mentorship by the Innovation Advisors to conduct tasks related to market research and commercialization of new technologies that are often outside the scope of a candidate’s current study or technical experience. The analyst will:
- Conduct research using secondary resources (published company information, SEC filings, scholarly journals, patent databases, trade literature, and news articles), as well as primary resources (interviews)
- Provide insightful analysis of opportunities identified during primary and secondary research, in written and oral format
- Share insights in written and oral format within the IA team, as well as with clients
- Develop marketing descriptions of new technologies and conduct research in a wide range of technology areas and industries
- Understand business and legal issues related to commercialization of new technologies
- Apply general technical acumen and scientific skills to evaluate a variety of technologies
- Employ commercialization and innovation-related frameworks, such as the business model canvas and value proposition testing, to new technologies
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree with 1-3 years of work experience, OR Master’s with 0-2 years of work experience, or recent PhD graduate
- Area of study in science or engineering discipline, or business with a technical or innovation focus (e.g., economics).
- Career interest in innovation, technology transfer and commercialization, and consulting.
- Demonstrated comfort and willingness to regularly work outside the scope of the candidate’s technical field of study.
- Exceptional written and oral communication, time management, analytical skills.
- Team-centric thinking and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in typical computer applications such as the MS Office Suite, including Teams, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Motivated, hardworking individual with a passion for technology commercialization and consulting.
- Detail-oriented and able to work both independently and collaboratively.
Preferred Qualifications:
RTI Innovation Advisors values candidates’ diverse technical experiences and skillsets. The following qualifications represent some preferences for education and skillsets, but we welcome those with alternative backgrounds to apply, should they fit the minimum qualifications.
- Area of study in Food Science, Food Chemistry, Food Engineering, Microbiology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, or closely related disciplines.
- 1-2 years of experience in corporate food and beverage R&D, consumer packaged goods, personal care, packaging, or agriculture.
- Experience, coursework, or other training in product development, technology transfer, business development, market analysis, patent licensing, finance, or marketing.
- Visual art skills that to support meeting facilitation and ideation, including product sketching and graphic design
- Experience in fields such as digital sciences, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning is a plus.
- An ability and willingness to join our team in person in Research Triangle Park, NC, frequently
- U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
The anticipated pay range for this role is listed below. Our pay ranges represent national averages and may vary by location as a geographic differential may be applied to some locations within the United States.
RTI considers multiple factors when making an offer including, for example: established salary range, internal budget, business needs, and education and years of work experience possessed by the applicant. Further, salary is merely one element to our offer.
At RTI, we demonstrate our commitment to rewarding individual and team achievement through a total rewards package. This package includes (among other things) a competitive base salary, a generous paid time off policy, merit based annual increases, bonus opportunities and a robust recognition program. Other benefits include a competitive range of insurance plans (including health, dental, life, and short-term and long-term disability), access to a retirement savings program such as a 401(k) plan, paid parental leave for all parents, financial assistance with adoption expenses or infertility treatments, financial reimbursement for education and developmental opportunities, an employee assistance program, and numerous other offerings to support a healthy work-life balance.