The responsibilities of this role have been specially carved out to focus on product and process development for innovations, renovations and Value engineering.
This role will be primarily responsible for :-
- 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 commercialization 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.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
- Coordinate with GRD and Regulatory teams.
- Timely completion of trials as per plan.
- Update on Devex and relevant locations on time.
- Accurate data with right scrap factors before launch.
- Completion of budget exercise as per timelines.
- Optimal utilization with zero overtime.
Qualifications / Certifications
Essential - Graduate in Food technology/Science, Chemical Technology or Dairy Technology.
Desirable - Post graduate in Food Technology.
Knowledge
Essential - Product development in confectionery and allied industry.
Desirable - Worked with flavors applications. Application of SAP, Fluent with Power point and MS Excel.
Experience
Essential - 8+ years in product development/ R&D; or process development roles.
Desirable - 6-8 years in Food B2C companies.
📌 PPD-Associate Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Perfetti Van Melle
📍 Chennai
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