FDE - Forward Deploy Engineer - Snacking (43988)

Position Title: FDE - Forward Deploy Engineer - Snacking

• Partner with Snacking business teams to identify opportunities where AI, automation, analytics, and digital technologies can improve business outcomes, operational efficiency, and customer value.
• Translate business challenges and opportunities into clear technical requirements, solution designs, and deployment roadmaps.
• Deploy practical solutions that support product innovation, portfolio management, customer engagement, commercial execution, demand planning, supply chain optimization, and operational excellence.
• Lead or support pilots, proofs of concept, and rapid experimentation efforts to validate business value before broader deployment.
• Define success measures, adoption criteria, business outcomes, and evaluation frameworks for new solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to test solutions in real-world business environments and recommend whether initiatives should scale, refine, pause, or retire.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve productivity, insight generation, decision-making, customer experiences, and business processes.
• Partner with AI Engineering, Data & Analytics, Security, Legal, and Digital Technology teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards and governance requirements.
• Act as a trusted translator between technical teams and business stakeholders, simplifying complex concepts and ensuring alignment on priorities.
• Support the integration of new AI and digital capabilities into existing workflows, platforms, systems, and business processes.
• Identify data, process, and technology gaps that may impact solution effectiveness and work with stakeholders to address them.
• Develop enablement materials, playbooks, training content, and user guidance to accelerate adoption and successful change management.
• Gather user feedback and continuously improve deployed solutions based on business needs and outcomes.
• Promote responsible AI, data governance, privacy, security, and ethical technology use across all deployments.
• Share reusable frameworks, deployment patterns, lessons learned, and best practices across the AI and digital organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business, Engineering, Data & Analytics, Computer Science, Supply Chain, Food Science, Marketing, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in technology deployment, digital transformation, AI enablement, data and analytics, product development, commercial technology, or related disciplines.
• Strong understanding of business processes within consumer packaged goods (CPG), food manufacturing, snacking, commercial operations, supply chain, product innovation, customer engagement, or comparable industries.
• Demonstrated experience deploying technology solutions within business functions and driving adoption in real-world environments.
• Experience with AI, automation platforms, data and analytics tools, digital products, enterprise applications, or customer-facing technologies.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and technical concepts into clear business language.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Proven ability to balance innovation, business value, risk management, and operational realities.
• Experience working effectively in a global, matrixed enterprise environment.
• Understanding of privacy, security, responsible AI, compliance, and data governance principles.
• Experience supporting pilots, experimentation, and scaled deployment of AI-enabled business solutions is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with Azure, Databricks, enterprise data platforms, or modern AI ecosystems is an asset.

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