Job Summary

The R&D; Executive will be responsible for developing and improving food products, conducting trials, optimizing formulations, ensuring product quality and consistency, and supporting commercialization of new products in accordance with food safety and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities
- Develop new food products and improve existing products based on market and customer requirements.
- Prepare and optimize product formulations, recipes, and specifications.
- Conduct laboratory, pilot-scale, and production trials.
- Evaluate raw materials, ingredients, packaging materials, and their suitability for product development.
- Perform sensory evaluation, stability studies, shelf-life studies, and product benchmarking.
- Coordinate with Production, Quality Assurance, Procurement, and Marketing teams for successful product commercialization.
- Maintain R&D; documentation, including formulations, trial reports, product specifications, and process parameters.
- Troubleshoot formulation and processing issues during trials and production.




- Identify opportunities for cost reduction and process/product improvement without compromising quality.
- Ensure products comply with applicable food safety, quality, labeling, and regulatory requirements.
- Support vendor/ingredient evaluation and conduct trials with current ingredients.
- Monitor industry trends, competitor products, ingredients, and emerging technologies.
- Assist in technology transfer and scale-up from laboratory to commercial production.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Food Technology, Food Science, Dairy Technology, or a related field.
- 1–4 years of relevant experience in food product development/R&D.;
- Knowledge of food processing, ingredients, formulation, sensory evaluation, and shelf-life testing.
- Basic understanding of FSSAI, HACCP, GMP, and food safety requirements.
- Good analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effec

📌 R&D Executive (Bengaluru)
🏢 Palhind Private
📍 Bengaluru