Location: Hybrid - in office 3-4 days/week

About Us  
Enhanced Medical Nutrition ("EMN”) is a transformational, food-as-medicine start-up that commercializes evidence-based medical nutrition products to improve patient outcomes and experience in surgery. Surgical patients are unprepared for the stress of their surgery, which can significantly increase the risk of delayed recovery, complications and even mortality. EMN has developed ENROUTE®, a surgeon recommended nutrition program to help patients prepare better and recover faster. EMN is a venture-backed, food-as-medicine company led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs, medical professionals, and brand builders.

EMN is committed to promoting and supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the workplace. Workplace diversity, equity, and inclusivity result in a more robust team culture, improve organizational effectiveness, and enable the company to better serve customers and the community.

The Role:
EMN is seeking a detail-oriented and driven R&D Manager- Product Innovation to join our team. Reporting to the Chief Science Officer, you will contribute to the end-to-end development of new, innovative, evidence-based nutrition products and establishing EMN as a centre of excellence in surgical nutrition. You will also lead improvements of existing products through the ownership of EMN’s customer insights. The position foremost requires an entrepreneurial drive with curiosity, vision, an obsession with our customers and the ability to wear multiple hats including voice of customer, strategic marketing, and product development.

About You:
You are enthusiastic about innovation in nutrition and food technology and enjoy the challenge of participating in the creation and execution of new and improved products. You possess effective organizational, interpersonal, collaboration, and critical thinking skills. You are thorough and get stuff done. You are a pragmatic problem solver who excels at interacting with and understanding the needs of others. You are curious and ask good questions, particularly as it pertains to understanding our customers and how to solve their respective pain points. You are action-oriented and thrilled to take on new challenges. You excel at thinking outside the box and problem solving to complete tasks.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Lead the voice of customer research program to gain insights, understand pain points, and determine user requirements and barriers to entry
• Critically evaluate consumer concepts, business opportunities and solutions to identify growth opportunities leveraging syndicated research, trend data, primary market research, and competitive intelligence
• Consult technical resources (literature, technical papers, suppliers, internal stakeholders) to further product knowledge and to determine project feasibility
• Support commercial & financial vetting internally including product costing & feasibility
• Develop and communicate business cases to key stakeholders
• Lead product development improvement initiatives to improve the quality of existing products in response to customer feedback, to improve nutritional value, colour, flavour, texture, and convenience, or to improve cost efficiencies
• Work collaboratively cross-functionally to help drive business alignment and prioritization
• Partner closely with sales and marketing teams to understand and integrate customer strategies into the innovation pipeline
• Provides technical leadership to manage, develop, and commercialize new medical food products that address specific health conditions in collaboration with the R&D team
• Translates business problems, strategies and descriptions into cohesive narratives through concise and persuasive written content for funding applications
• Other ad hoc tasks or projects assigned by your supervisor

Your Skills and Experience:

• Prior experience in entrepreneurship or product for a food tech, medical nutrition or medical device products
• Ability to immerse yourself in the nutritional problems faced by surgeons and/or their patients and to identify & evaluate nutrition-based solutions
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills that enable you to collaborate effectively with both internal & external stakeholders.
• Prior experience vetting opportunities, developing a business case and/or business model canvas
• Prior end-to-end experience in the product development process
• Proven ability to drive projects including product ideation & development from concept to launch
• Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment that is common in start-ups.
• High self-motivation and attention to detail.

Your Qualifications:

• Must have prior work experience in entrepreneurship or start-up
• Must have: at least 3 years of prior work experience in nutrition or medtech in product
• Must have: Degree in nutrition, science, business, or related field
• Must have: proficient with project management software (ClickUp), Microsoft Office 365 including OneDrive, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Why Work at EMN?  At EMN, we believe employee success translates into the company's overall success. We offer a competitive benefits package, a creative and friendly culture, endless challenges, tailored career development opportunities, and a supportive management structure. If you are looking for a fun and rewarding career, we look forward to hearing how you can help support EMN’s scale.

• Competitive salary and compensation plan
• Competitive healthcare insurance, including medical, dental, paramedical, and vision
• Expedited career development
• Hybrid work environment
• Continuous learning opportunities

How to apply?

• For more information, please refer to our company website at https://emnhealth.com/.  
• Please send your resume to: april@emnhealth.com

EMN is an Equal Opportunity Employer - In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code, EMN will provide accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process. If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please inform Human Resources staff of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require. Thank you for your interest in joining the EMN team! While we are lucky to attract a high level of interest in each of our roles, only qualified applicants will be contacted and selected for an interview.