Manager - Research & Development - Ice Cream Segment

R&D Manager - Ice cream

- Drive new ice cream and dairy products innovations, project execution, process development with better ROI.

- Finalizing/designing specification of raw materials, formulation, process, pack and Quality Assurance regimes to support / enforce these specs agreed technical action standards.

- Understand application of principles of Food/Dairy science & technology, chemistry, engineering and microbiology at lab, pilot, factory scale to develop novel ice cream products and processes.

- Understand key consumer and market insights and translating them into product ideas.

- Conduct studies to establish shelf-life, melt properties and other characteristics of new products.

- Troubleshoot at factory-scale when required, Prepare Technical transfer documents, train factory/3P personnel.

- Establish processes developed at lab/pilot-scale in to Heritage factories/3Ps to enable commercial production.

- Use appropriate measurement techniques (either existing or develop new techniques) to analyse or characterize key attributes of the ingredients, intermediate products and Finished goods.

- Effective liaison with other R&D functions, factory / 3Ps / Supply chain, marketing and other cross functions for successful completion projects.

- Transfer technology from lab to plant scale-up trials.

- Plan & execute experiments based on the project brief with rigor, analysing the information and data and draw scientific conclusions.

- Continuously look for / experiment with new ingredients/recipes/technologies to develop products and processes that offer tangible, new benefits to the consumer and business.

- Work in the laboratory to carry out on the bench experiments and in pilot plant to develop novel ice cream products per brief within the cost & regulatory framework Process development.

- Establishing appropriate process for manufacturing different ice cream & Frozen dessert product formats to specification at lab, pilot and factory scale. Optimize processing parameters.

- Intervene through formulation/process to enhance quality of products

- Develop new Ingredients and vendor for sustainability of manufacturing process.

- Closely work with team to build R&D capability in the identified areas. Drive best practices New specifications writing, project management and technical report writing.