Manager - New Product Development - Food Processing

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead end-to-end New Product Development (NPD) from concept, formulation, trials, validation, and commercialization.

- Develop, optimize, and standardize product formulations, recipes, and manufacturing processes.

- Conduct laboratory, pilot, and production trials to validate product quality, safety, stability, and process feasibility.

- Collaborate with Production, Quality, Procurement, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Regulatory teams for successful product launches.

- Monitor market trends, consumer preferences, competitor products, and emerging technologies to identify new product opportunities.

- Conduct sensory evaluations, shelf-life studies, benchmarking, and product performance assessments.

- Ensure compliance with FSSAI regulations, food safety standards, labeling requirements, applicable legal metrology requirements, and other relevant regulatory requirements.

- Review and maintain product specifications, ingredient declarations, nutritional information, claims, technical documents, and regulatory records.

- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders for regulatory approvals, product registrations, certifications, and compliance requirements, wherever applicable.

- Ensure products comply with applicable food laws, customer requirements, quality standards, and internal specifications.

- Manage NPD project timelines, milestones, budgets, trials, and cross-functional coordination.

- Optimize product cost through formulation improvement, ingredient alternatives, process optimization, and yield improvement without compromising quality or regulatory compliance.

- Support successful scale-up and technology transfer from laboratory/pilot scale to commercial production.

- Identify and resolve product, process, quality, and regulatory issues during development and commercialization.

- Maintain complete and accurate NPD documentation, development records, trial reports, specifications, and change-control records.