Innovertus (Neulife) is looking for an experienced R&D; Manager to lead product innovation across our nutrition supplements and nutraceuticals portfolio. If you've spent your career formulating, flavoring, and launching products in the core functional foods and nutraceutical space — and love pushing into new formats — we want to talk to you. What You'll Own
• End-to-End Product Development: Lead R&D; from concept creation and ingredient selection to formulation, trials, validation, and commercial launch.
• Formulation & Innovation: Develop and optimize formulations for nutrition supplements, functional foods, powders, ready-to-drink (RTD) products, bars, and other relevant formats.
• Taste, Texture & Flavour: Work hands-on with flavour systems, sweeteners, mouthfeel, texture, solubility, and sensory optimization to create products consumers want to come back to.
• Stability & Product Performance: Drive stability testing, shelf-life evaluation, and troubleshooting to ensure consistent product quality.
• Scale-Up & Commercialization: Translate laboratory formulations into commercially viable products in collaboration with manufacturing, sourcing, and quality teams.
• Ingredient & Market Exploration: Evaluate new ingredients, technologies, and market trends to develop differentiated products for the evolving nutrition and wellness market.
• Independent R&D; Ownership: Plan experiments, troubleshoot formulation challenges, document results, and take accountability for delivering outcomes.



Requirements We are looking for candidates who meet all the following essential criteria:
• 3–8 years of relevant professional experience in R&D; or product development within nutraceuticals, sports nutrition, dietary supplements, functional foods, or relevant FMCG food categories.
• Hands-on formulation

experience:
You must have personally developed, tested, and optimized product formulations—not just managed projects or coordinated with an R&D; team.
• Solid understanding of taste, flavour, and texture: Practical experience in flavour development, sensory evaluation, mouthfeel, solubility, or texture optimization is essential.
• Product development : Experience taking products from laboratory trials through scale-up.
• Independent execution: Ability to plan and execute R&D; trials, identify formulation issues, troubleshoot independently, and drive product development with minimal supervision.
• Relevant technical foundation: A degree in Food Technology, Food Science, Food Engineering, Nutrition Science, or a closely related discipline. Candidates with direct experience in nutraceuticals, sports nutrition, nutrition supplements, or functional foods will be considered. Experience with powders, protein-based formulations, bars, RTDs, or other specialized delivery formats will be an advantage.

Location:
Powai, Mumbai CTC Range: 9-10L Why Neulife Join a growing player in India's nutraceutical space and shape the next generation of products from the ground up — real ownership, real impact. #Hiring #RnD #Nutraceuticals #SupplementIndustry #ProductDevelopment #NeulifeCareer

📌 R&D Manager – Nutraceuticals (Mumbai)
🏢 Neulife Nutrition
📍 Mumbai