Job Summary

The Manager, Culinary Innovation is responsible for developing and commercializing products Papa Johns limited time offers and menu. This role combines strong food industry knowledge with expertise in interpretation to bring to life industry trends on products, ingredients, and flavors. This role is involved with all aspects of product research and development including ideation, use of customer data/demand, development and commercialization, working within cost constraints, working with suppliers, and working cross-functionally within Papa Johns' teams including supply chain, operations, quality assurance, food safety, finance, brand marketing and consumer insights. This role is involved in developing products for both core menu and limited time offers

Duties and Responsibilities

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• Product development for Papa Johns'menus, based on Product Development Briefs that are launched

• Develop and work within theoutline of the Product Development Brief, while applying creative thinking and operational common sense to the product

• Participate in marketresearch, producttesting and validation. Understand, interpret and use consumer and leadership data gathered at check-in points

• Usemarket,competitiveandcustomersatisfactionanalysistodirectthedevelopmentandoptimizationof newmenuitems.

• Exploresupplieropportunities with bothPJIoperations and externalsources

• Stayabreastofmarkettrendsandcustomerpreferencestoidentifyinnovationopportunities;keeparollingplanofpotential seasonal and permanent menu items

• Defineandowntheprocessbywhichconceptualideasaretranslatedintoacommercializedformulation.Leverageinternal and external resources to lead product development from bench-top design to commercialization

• WorkwithMarketingandotherinternalstakeholdersonfinishedproductdesign

• Participate in ongoing post-launch analysis of products developed

   

It is the policy of Papa John’s to provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status or civil partnership, national or ethnic origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, uniformed service (as defined by 10 U.S.C. §101 (a)(5)), protected disability status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, or gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by statute or law.