Assistant Manager

Role Title: Assistant Manager Product Development- R&D

Role

Drive innovation, formulation development, and product improvements in nutrition and dietary supplements category (Proteins, Vitamins & Minerals, Herbals, Preworkouts, Hydration, Sports nutrition, etc.) ensuring scientific credibility, regulatory compliance, and commercial feasibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate nutra trends, scientific innovations and market gaps.
• Knowledge of different bioavailability enhancement techniques
• Formulation Development: concept evaluation, prototype preparation, stability, scale-up.
• Develop science-backed, differentiated vitamins, minerals and health supplement products.
• Ensure cost-effective formulations.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to build strong product positioning and claims.
• Prepare technical dossiers, formulation sheets, ingredient specs.
• Labeling as per FSSAI guidelines (claims, RDA %).
• Bench marking of products with other similar products.
• Support in NPD developments such as artwork closure for any New Development along with Regulatory & concerned Vendor
• Work closely with P2P, procurement, QA, packaging teams.
• Support procurement in branded ingredient onboarding.
• Knowledge of claims substantiation & clinical evaluation
• Study global literature, clinical studies and competitive benchmarking.
• Participate in innovation pipeline planning and roadmap creation.

Required Qualifications

• M.Pharm in Pharmaceutics with 4-6 years’ experience in Pharma / Nutraceutical/ Health Supplements Industry. Strong knowledge of: Micronutrients, botanicals, probiotics, sports nutrition with Stability, solubility & bioavailability enhancement technologies and FSSAI nutraceutical regulations