Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Food Technologist / Food Product Development Specialist with 3–4+ years of hands-on experience in food formulation and product development, preferably across atta, rice, bakery, cereals, or other staple food categories. The ideal candidate should have practical expertise in recipe development, ingredient selection, protein fortification, nutritional enhancement, sensory evaluation, product trials, costing, and commercial-scale formulation.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop, test, and optimize protein-enriched food formulations using suitable plant, cereal, pulse, soy, pea, whey, dairy-derived, and other food-grade protein ingredients.
- Conduct laboratory, kitchen, pilot-scale, and manufacturing trials to evaluate taste, texture, aroma, appearance, cooking performance, dough handling, water absorption, shelf life, and consumer acceptance.
- Develop formulations that are scalable, cost-effective, nutritionally effective, and suitable for mass-market production.
- Maintain formulation sheets, ingredient specifications, batch sizes, process parameters, trial observations, and technical documentation.
- Evaluate ingredient functionality, interactions, quality, availability, and cost; coordinate with suppliers and vendors for samples and technical specifications.
- Conduct sensory evaluation, benchmarking, nutritional analysis, costing, and formulation optimization.
- Support scale-up, troubleshoot production challenges,



and work with manufacturing teams to ensure consistency and commercial feasibility.
- Ensure compliance with FSSAI regulations, food labelling requirements, nutritional claims, permitted ingredients, additives, and quality standards.

Required Qualifications & Experience

- Degree in Food Technology, Food Science, Food Processing, Food & Nutrition, or a related discipline; a Master’s degree will be preferred.
- Minimum 3–4 years of relevant industry experience in food formulation, R&D;, or product development.
- Hands-on experience with atta, wheat flour, rice, bakery products, cereals, staple foods, protein fortification, or functional foods will be strongly preferred.
- Solid understanding of flour and cereal technology, dough systems, baking processes, protein functionality, ingredient interactions, sensory evaluation, nutritional analysis, cost optimization, and scale-up from R&D; to production.
- Prior experience in developing and commercializing food formulations is essential. Practical industry experience will be valued over academic qualifications alone.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who is hands-on, experimental, and commercially minded—someone who can take a product idea from ingredient selection and formulation through trials, testing, optimization, costing, and commercial production. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working in an R&D; kitchen or laboratory as well as with suppliers, production teams, and manufacturing partners.

Work Location: In person

📌 Food Technologist – Product Development & Formulation (India)
🏢 CADDY VENTURES
📍 India