Associate Manager - PPD/NPD

Role & responsibilities

• Liaison with local marketing team for overall project management like preparing Gantt charts, NPD meeting updates and samples sharing.
• Scheduling and completing all NPD trials in a timely manner in coordination with local mfg. team.
• Coordinate with production and SCM teams for commercialisation of NPDs
• Regularly interact with Group R&D team for technology transfer and trials reporting.
• Creating documents related to NPD and uploading BOMs in SAP.
• Ensuring ownership of stability testing and regulatory compliances for relevant products.
• Ensure participation in GMP, Food Safety internal audits and have awareness about quality of products.

Key result area (KRA)

• Leads recipe development as per marketing brief.
• Ensure material connectivity and flawless execution of industrial trials.
• Maintain R&D documentation like PDR recipes, Stability tests, decay study etc.
• BOM updates on SAP Ensure timely availability of RM codes and SFG codes for NPDs.
• Executing BOM budgeting exercise.
• Ownership of NPD labs : Ensure right equipment and man power allocation as per project priorities.

Preferred candidate profile

• Qualifications - Graduate in Food technology/Science, Chemical Technology or Dairy Technology. Post graduate in Food Technology (Desirable).
• Product development in confectionery and allied industry.
• Worked with flavors applications.
• Application of SAP, Fluent with Power point and MS Excel.