- New products - Developing and launching New Products and leading innovations

- Drive technologies and improve existing products.

- Collaborate with company marketing and consumer insights to understand and anticipate market demand

- Collaborate with Operations in setting standards for new plants and ensuring all new products are effectively led into scaled up solutions

- Planning and developing products to meet consumer needs and remain competitive in the marketplace.

- Creating lead measures for Innovation success

- Drive processes to help ensure end to end success of new product launches

- Drive accountability, consistency, quality, and process standardization across all phases of research and development.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

- To lead literature search and identify suitable route/process for product development in the fields of food Product.

- Monitoring development activity with respect to cost, resource deployment, time over-runs and quality compliance.

- Giving support for registration of new products with statutory authorities.

- Knowledge of Techno Commercial, legal, regulatory and environmental requirements for smoother implementation of projects.

- Take challenges of trouble shooting and improving efficiencies of current practice/products.

- To conduct pilot scale trials with the help of Chemists/Production and subsequently provide support during commissioning to ensure smooth technology transfer.

- Generating various MIS and keeping management updated.

- Co-ordinate and liaise with Heads of various departments including Production, Design and Project, Quality Assurance, and commercial, in pursuance of company's functions and policies.

- Ensure safety in R&D.

Qualification and Experience:

B.Tech / M.Sc in Food Science and Technology or B.Tech / M.Tech in Chemical Engineering from a well-known institute

The candidate should have worked in a food industry of medium size for at least 8 years handing several key responsibilities as cited above. The candidate must be well versed with the aspects of New Product Development, principles of innovations and must have a strong aptitude to solve industry problems through a research bent of mind

Salary offered: 10 - 12 LPA

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