ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic leadership:

- Developing and implementing the technology support strategy for all the categories and platforms of CBP business. The technology support will include new product development, total delivered cost and quality improvement of existing products, strategy for dealing with regulatory issues, packaging technology, quality systems and manufacturing processes.

- Develop strategy for new categories, platforms in partnership with business team and ensure a robust NPD pipe line.

- Road map for quality enhancement and continuous improvement of products and processes, developing appropriate science for differentiated consumer claims

- Be part of developing the short term and long term business strategy, provide necessary technical inputs and ensure the necessary technical competency and lab infrastructure are in place to support the strategy

- Tracking competitors activities, regulatory changes and providing the necessary risk assessment to business.

Technology leadership:

- Converting ideas to workable concepts based on available scientific literature and technologies. Convert concepts to technical specifications to enable designing differentiated products and process to meet consumer expectations and prevailing regulatory frame work. Prepare and execute road map to scale up the commercial process for the new products

- Updating the business/technology team about available scientific literature, trends in technology and consumer needs related to pulse and derivatives business and generate technology forward ideas.

- Analytical methods road map for product, raw material, Packaging material quality, technical qualification of vendors and third parties.

- To identify opportunities through open innovation, collaboration with outside universities and research institutes to further enhance the domain knowledge and competency of IC.

- Continuous mapping and communicating the impact on business of competitors activities (domestic as well as global), wrt technology trends, IP mapping, new science developments and regulatory changes.

- Set up and execute methodologies for food sensorial and taste assessment by trained and untrained panels.

People and Process management:

- Support the business team in taking the new concepts all the way to commercialization following the discipline and rigor of the stage and gate process.

- Maintaining the lab infrastructure, instruments and their regular maintenance. Also responsible for preparing capital expenditure and operational budget for pulse business technology support

- Responsible for identifying, technical qualification of third parties for scale up and manufacture of new products. Responsible for all the scale up protocols, planning of scale up trials and implementation.

- Responsible for smooth and safe functioning of the laboratory and execution of all experiments with very high level of scientific rigor and integrity. Ensure IP protection of all the work technical work and cover them by filing patents as and when necessary

- Developing proper Internal Systems and Procedures and ensuring proper documentation of all the scientific and technical work carried out by the team.

Managing the external stakeholder ecosystem:

- Liaising with external agencies on all technical matters, like FSSAI, ASCI, Spice board, etc. Prepare strategies for communication with these agencies as and when needed. Represent the organisation on all technical bodies like BIS, national committees.

- Handle customer query / complaints on technical front, about product, ingredient, and impact on health in specific cases. ASCI and FSSAI complaints on claim substantiation.

- Represent the organisation in various forums, government bodies, technical committees

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

- PhD in organic Chemistry or Biotechnology or Food technology.

- Two to three years of post-doctoral experience in a reputed foreign university desirable.

- Proven track record of scientific excellence based on publications and patents.

- A minimum of 15 to 20 years- of varied experience in corporate R&D in similar roles in the FMCG industry.

- Domain knowledge in the area of pulses, grains and their derivative, chemical and process behaviours of starches and proteins is highly desirable.

- Domain knowledge food technology, nutrition science, food regulations, food and flavour interactions, food and packaging interactions.

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