Head of Commercialisation – FDL Products

The Leading and shaping our commercialisation strategy across the UK and supporting the wider EMEA region. This role could be based at either of our sites in Stafford, Walden, or Wapping.

This is a leadership position responsible for owning and driving the commercialisation process end-to-end. You will play a critical role in scaling innovation from concept through to full production, ensuring excellence in execution, compliance, and customer delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and actively support ADM’s nutrition expansion strategy across the UK and EMEA
• Own, develop, and continuously improve the commercialisation process
• Manage project pipelines, resource allocation, and team involvement in trials and first productions
• Take full responsibility for regulatory and compliance aspects of commercialisation activities
• Collaborate closely with CD&D, commercial teams, production, quality, and technical stakeholders
• Establish clear and effective ways of working with production sites and technical teams
• Lead internal and external scale-ups, ensuring on-time and successful execution
• Validate production recipes, including for co-manufacturers where applicable
• Support production transfers between internal manufacturing sites
• Drive excellence for strategic accounts through strong project coordination
• Oversee sensorial and physical qualification of finished products
• Ensure accurate documentation of trials and first production runs
• Deliver a smooth handover to operations post-commercialisation