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.

📌 Associate Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Perfetti Van Melle
📍 Chennai