Jennifer Wasieleski

About Jennifer Wasieleski

A high-energy, accomplished senior leader with 15+ years of success driving business…

Experience

1. Product Management Director

   Kerry

   Aug 2021 — Present

   Driving strategy and growth of the global Ferments portfolio within Kerry\'s Food Protection & Preservation business. Responsible for aligning Technology strategy within the End-Use-Market teams, ensuring the optimal portfolio based on market requirements, setting pricing strategy for optimal margin management, and providing strategic direction to the cross-functional team including Business Development, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Process Technology and Research & Development. Training cross functional and End-Use-Market teams on product portfolio. • Align and lead the EUM and Technology strategies across the cross-functional teams to ensure the Sales budget is met or exceeded. • Provide direction to the Operations and Process Technology teams to ensure they are working efficiently and aligned with overall product strategy. • Drive innovation and implement new products in alignment with the business strategy ensuring manufacturing capabilities are optimized. • Establish pricing strategy per product group / customer segment based on comprehensive understanding of competitor landscape. • Ensuring optimal asset utilization across operational footprint / portfolio. Aligning the asset utilization future model with strategic direction of the business.

Skills

• Commercialization
• Food Processing
• Mapics
• Spray Drying
• Salesforce.com
• Food Safety
• Sensory Evaluation
• Food Microbiology
• Food Technology
• Fermentation Process Development
• Food Industry
• R&D
• Optiva
• Process Improvement
• Microsoft Office
• Challenge Driven
• Ingredients
• Product Development
• Problem Solving
• Food Science
• Haccp
• Food