Company Profile: Food Processing / FMCG Organization

Position: NPD Executive – Fruit Preparations & Culinary Sauces/Chutneys

Location: Ahmedabad HO

Key Requirements:

- Product Formulation & Development: Develop new products across fruit preparations, sauces, and chutneys, including fruit fillings, purees, toppings, jams, and condiments.
- Product Trials & Optimization: Conduct laboratory, pilot-scale, and plant trials to optimize taste, flavour, texture, viscosity, acidity, stability, shelf life, and product cost.
- Ingredient Knowledge: Work with fruits, spices, purees, emulsifiers, thickeners, stabilizers, acidity regulators, flavours, and preservatives to improve product functionality.
- Application Development: Ensure product performance across bakery, dairy, confectionery, and dessert applications, along with appropriate sensory evaluation and market benchmarking.
- Processing & Scale-Up: Define processing parameters, support factory trials and commercial production, and troubleshoot formulation and processing issues.
- Quality & Stability: Conduct shelf-life and stability studies, coordinate microbiological testing, and ensure product consistency, packaging compatibility, and food safety.
- Documentation & Compliance: Maintain formulation sheets, trial reports,



master recipes, BOMs, specifications, and SOPs while ensuring compliance with FSSAI regulations and customer requirements.
- Innovation & Market Trends: Explore new product opportunities, clean-label solutions, natural flavours and colours, reduced-sugar formulations, and emerging culinary trends.

Desired Candidate:

- 3–5 years of relevant experience in NPD, preferably in fruit preparations, fruit processing, sauces, chutneys, or condiments .
- Graduate in Food Technology / Food Engineering / Food Science or related discipline.
- Hands-on experience in independent formulation development, ingredient functionality, flavour balancing, and stabilization systems.
- Valuable understanding of fruit chemistry, pH, Brix, acidity, viscosity, emulsification, and thermal processing.
- Experience in pilot-scale development, plant trials, production scale-up, and shelf-life validation.
- Knowledge of food safety standards, FSSAI regulations, and technical documentation.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and coordination skills.

Contact Details: Rina Arun / Nandan Kumar

+91 99043 22770 / +91 (phone hidden)

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