Research & Development Specialist

• Competitive pay and attractive annual bonus;
• On-going development opportunities in multinational environment, wide variety of projects, ambitious goals and independence in achieving them. Promoting from within culture;
• Freedom with responsibility (we trust your competencies, ability to manage your time and your scope of work);
• Lot of flexibility in terms of work arrangements (work from office or from home);
• Private medical care (various options to choose) and life insurance;
• Employee pension and savings programs;
• JTI Family Leave Benefit – including extended paid paternity leave and fully paid maternity leave;
• Multisport card, foreign languages classes;
• Wide variety of trainings, webinars and professional courses on our e-learning platforms, including sponsored certification programs (for employees fulfilling the admission criteria);
• Modern office with traditions (Art Norblin Factory) in convenient location, equipped with a library, mindfulness zone, spacious kitchen, garden terrace, massage chairs and underground bicycle parking;
• Working in a diverse and inclusive organization of 43 different nationalities.

Creation and maintenance of production-ready product specifications and Bills of Material throughout the product lifecycle in accordance with instructions from other R&D departments and machine related data from GSC colleagues at manufacturing plants within JTI's global SAP system in accordance to JTI policies and procedures and their distribution to the respective manufacturing plants in a timely manner.

• Create & maintain accurate & consistent product specifications and bills of material within JTI's global SAP system in a timely manner according to specific instructions in order to ensure the procurement of the correct materials in the correct quantities and the subsequent manufacture fully conforming products.
• Adhere to, and maintain, department-specific processes and related documentation, e.g. regular data quality checks.
• Establish and maintain process documentation as required, e.g. team documents, reference data including machine specific material consumption information, etc.
• Identify and evaluate data & process gaps and information flow issues and reporting of same to line Manager.
• Manage the product life cycle of materials and products (phase in/phase out).

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken;
• High School Diploma with business practice or Commercial education;
• Experience of integrated manufacturing processes and knowledge of Bills of Material structure in connection with production processes and machinery (optional);
• Understanding of the processes leading to the creation/changes of product specifications;
• Good analytical skills;
• Numerical affinity with high accuracy;
• Well-developed IT literacy.