Manager - Product Development - FMCG

Position : Manager-Product Development

Location : Thane

Organization : FMCG

Experience required : 2-4 years

Educational Qualification : BTech/ MTech in Food Tech/Food Sciences from Premier Institute. 2008-2011 Batch only

Key Responsibilities :

- Generate new ideas alongwith commercial colleagues addressing consumer needs.

- Design & execute development trials in R&D leading to finalization of consumer validated product.

- Ensure finalized option meets requirements of commericalisation , viz. GC, shelf test, travel test , regulatory compliance, etc.

- Generate Technical specification of Ingredients, product and work in progress

- Conduct plant trials and finalise product & process requirement & specification.

- Advise process development on Process flow and processing conditions needed for manufacture of product meeting product specifications.

- Support Procurement & Quality for vendor development and supplier validation

- Help manufacturing to commission product on line and ensure that product meets specifications as defined and cleared by stake-holders.

- Innovation to be delivered as per agreed time lines and within defined costs target, adhering to the product development process as defined .

- Network with Procurement, R&D colleagues in other Kraft units, external partners etc, to generate new ideas for value optimization.

- Scope , select and lead development & implementation of new VO ideas to meet target as defined by organization.

- Network with regional/global R&D and Chocolate Network to generate new ideas, and develop knowledge base in recipes/formulations, practices & processes, in own’s domain of work. Drive for best.

- Network with flavour houses, ingredient houses, equipment manufacturers, markets, scan databases like gnpd etc to identify new opportunities , understand competitor products, new technologies etc

- Network with commercial colleagues to understand consumer better whenever found necessary during product development.

- Support KM partner for maintaining & monitoring TDMS uploads in own’s area of work.

- Partner finance for development of annual recipe budget.

Interested candidates please share their CV at sanchari.d@achconsultants.com