Job Title: Manager - Sweetener

Job Location: Chennai

Years of Experience: 10+ years

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Develop new sweetener products and blends (natural, plant-based, functional) and improve existing formulations.
- Create application-ready solutions for beverages, bakery, confectionery, and nutraceuticals ensuring sensory and performance parity with sugar.
- Manage end-to-end scale-up from lab to plant while ensuring regulatory, quality, and process compliance.
- Collaborate with suppliers to explore recent sweetening technologies, functional ingredients, and innovation opportunities.
- Support B2B and institutional teams with customized sweetener systems, application trials, and cost-optimization projects.
- Lead development of consumer retail products (powders, tablets,



liquids, sachets) with strong sensory, stability, and shelf-life performance.
- Partner with marketing for claims, sensory validation, consumer insights, and product communication.
- Drive cross-functional alignment with Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, and Marketing for smooth product launches.
- Track global sweetener trends, identify white spaces for innovation, IP creation, and sustainable sourcing.
- Maintain digital documentation and contribute to long-term sweetener strategy for the organizations food innovation roadmap.

📌 Manager- Sweetener (India)
🏢 Saaki Argus And Averil Consulting
📍 India