About the Role:
The Manager – R&D; (Food & Nutrition) will be responsible for developing and optimizing Vitamin & Mineral Premixes, Nutritional Premixes, Functional Food Blends, and Customized Ingredient Systems. The role will translate customer nutritional requirements and label claims into scientifically sound, commercially viable, and regulatory-compliant formulations while supporting product commercialization, manufacturing, and customer applications.

Key Responsibilities:
• Develop customized Vitamin & Mineral Premixes, Nutritional Premixes, and Functional Ingredient Blends for food, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical applications.
• Convert customer label claims into optimized formulations through appropriate selection of vitamins, mineral salts, and other functional ingredients.
• Determine nutrient dosage, multiplication factors, overages, and premix inclusion levels based on product application, processing conditions, shelf life, and regulatory requirements.
• Recommend the most suitable fortificants considering bioavailability, stability, compatibility, sensory impact, and cost.




• Support product scale-up, process validation, manufacturing trials, and commercialization.
• Collaborate with Sales, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory Affairs, and Supply Chain to deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Prepare technical documentation including formulations, specifications, nutritional calculations, and stability data.
• Support customer technical discussions, product troubleshooting, and application development.

Pre-Requisites:
• Hands-on experience in formulation and development of Vitamin & Mineral Premixes and Nutritional Blends.
• Robust understanding of micronutrient fortification, nutrient stability, overages, and multiplication factors.
• Experience in translating customer label claims into commercially viable premix formulations.
• Good understanding of food processing, nutrient interactions, shelf-life studies, and application-specific formulation.
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📌 Manager- R&D- Food (Hyderabad)
🏢 Sigachi Pharma
📍 Hyderabad