Senior Specialist, Innovation

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Neogen Corporation

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1001 - 5000 employees

🧬 Biotechnology

🌾 Agriculture

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Biotechnology • Agriculture • Food & Beverage

Neogen Corporation is a biotechnology company that offers a comprehensive range of solutions and services aimed at ensuring food safety throughout the food chain. They cater specifically to the food processing, animal protein, and agriculture industries, helping to protect the global food supply while promoting efficient production practices. In addition to their primary focus on food safety, Neogen also serves the companion and performance animal sectors, as well as engaging in life sciences and toxicology fields.

📋 Description

• Lead structured discovery efforts to uncover unmet needs across food and animal safety laboratories, manufacturing environments, farms, and veterinary settings • Plan, conduct, and synthesize voice-of-customer research, field observations, and stakeholder interviews • Translate qualitative and quantitative insights into need statements with defined users, contexts, and measurable success criteria • Assess unmet needs against strategic fit, customer value, regulatory constraints, and core capabilities for portfolio prioritization • Develop early value hypotheses, adoption assumptions, and problem framing • Generate, evaluate, and refine concepts spanning physical products, assays, instruments, digital tools, workflows, and service models • Collaborate with R&D, Engineering, Data Science, Quality, Regulatory, Commercial, Product Management, Operations, and digital teams • Build and test concepts through experiments, prototypes, pilots, and customer feedback loops • Define use cases, workflows, and system-level concepts integrating hardware, consumables, software, and data • Contribute to invention disclosures and freedom-to-operate discussions • Prepare concepts for progression through Neogen’s innovation governance process by documenting desirability, feasibility, and viability evidence • Support scale-up, validation, and launch readiness • Identify adoption, workflow, training, and regulatory risks and recommend mitigation strategies • Support transition from innovation into development or commercialization while preserving customer intent • Facilitate innovation workshops, ideation sessions, and decision reviews • Communicate insights, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior stakeholders • Contribute to innovation process, tool, and decision-criteria improvement • Support portfolio-level thinking and track innovation learnings and outcomes • Champion customer-centered innovation practices and mentor project teams and junior contributors

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Design, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience • 8+ years of relevant professional experience in innovation, R&D, product development, product management, strategy, customer discovery, or a related technical or commercial role • Experience leading or supporting customer discovery, voice-of-customer research, stakeholder interviews, observational research, or other needs-finding activities • Experience applying structured innovation methodologies such as Design Thinking, Jobs to Be Done, BioDesign, Lean Startup, Human-Centered Design, or comparable frameworks • Experience translating ambiguous customer problems into defined need statements, use cases, success criteria, value propositions, or early business hypotheses • Experience supporting concept development and de-risking through prototypes, experiments, pilots, technical feasibility assessments, or customer feedback • Experience facilitating workshops, synthesizing complex information, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority • Experience developing or contributing to business cases considering customer value, strategic fit, technical feasibility, adoption risk, market opportunity, or commercial viability • Experience working across scientific, technical, regulatory, quality, commercial, operations, or digital/data functions • Experience working in regulated environments where quality, validation, compliance, or customer workflow requirements influence business or product decisions • Ability to travel up to 30% based on business and customer needs • Advanced degree in Science, Engineering, Business, Design, or a related field (preferred) • Experience in food safety, animal health, diagnostics, life sciences, contract or central laboratories, agriculture, veterinary health, or another regulated technical market (preferred) • Experience with product development, commercialization, portfolio management, or stage-gate/governance processes (preferred) • Experience with digital solutions, data-enabled workflows, software-enabled products, automation, LIMS/connectivity, or digital transformation (preferred) • Experience developing solutions integrating hardware, consumables, software, and data (preferred) • Experience supporting intellectual property activities, including invention disclosures or freedom-to-operate discussions (preferred) • Strong customer orientation and curiosity • Ability to work through ambiguity and structure complex problems • Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills • Ability to translate scientific and technical information into clear business and customer insights • Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills • Ability to influence without direct authority • Strong collaboration skills across technical and non-technical functions • Ability to balance customer needs, technical feasibility, business value, and risk • Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits starting on Day One – Medical, dental, and vision coverage begin on your first day of employment. • 401(k) with company match • Paid Time Off (PTO) • Career Growth Opportunities, including tools, training, and support for career development • Meaningful Work • Collaborative Culture emphasizing innovation, respect, teamwork, and continuous improvement