Company: Timmur Food

Location: Bengaluru

Experience: 5–10 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

## About Timmur Food

Timmur is an emerging food brand specializing in frozen snacks and ambient food products for HoReCa, retail, and modern trade markets. Our portfolio includes frozen momos, patties, kebabs, crispy chicken snacks, chilli oils, dips, pickles, sauces, and gravies.

We are looking for an experienced NPD / R&D; Chef to lead product innovation, recipe development, standardization, and commercialization, ensuring every product is suitable for large-scale mass production and commercial distribution.

## Key Responsibilities

1. New Product Development (NPD)

- Develop innovative recipes and formulations for frozen and ambient food categories.
- Develop products based on market trends, customer requirements, and consumer preferences.
- Work on frozen snacks including chicken patties, chicken momos, veg momos, chicken kebabs, and crispy chicken popcorn.
- Develop ambient products including chilli oils, dips, onion and vegetable pickles, sauces, and gravies.
- Conduct product trials, sensory evaluations, and competitor benchmarking.

2. Recipe Standardization & Mass Production

- Standardize recipes, ingredient ratios, and processing parameters for every SKU.
- Ensure products are suitable for industrial-scale manufacturing and mass production.
- Scale recipes from kitchen trials to pilot batches and large commercial production.
- Optimize taste, texture, consistency, shelf life, and production efficiency.
- Develop BOMs, product specifications, and detailed manufacturing SOPs.
- Ensure batch-to-batch consistency across production runs.

3. Commercialization & Process Development

- Lead pilot trials and commercial production runs.
- Establish manufacturing processes, equipment requirements, and production parameters.
- Optimize freezing, frying, cooking, preservation, and packaging processes.
- Troubleshoot technical challenges during manufacturing and scale-up.




- Identify opportunities for cost reduction and production efficiency.

4. Shelf Life & Quality Management

- Develop and validate shelf life for frozen and ambient products.
- Work on preservation techniques, packaging compatibility, and storage requirements.
- Ensure compliance with FSSAI, HACCP, GMP, and applicable food safety standards.
- Coordinate microbiological testing, stability studies, and quality assessments.

5. Team & Cross-functional Management

- Coordinate with Production, Procurement, Quality, Sales, and Operations teams.
- Work with external manufacturing partners and suppliers.
- Participate in customer sampling and product presentations.
- Build and manage the R&D; team as the business expands.

## Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Food Technology, Food Science, Food Engineering, Culinary Arts, or related fields.
- 5–10 years of experience in Food R&D; / NPD.
- Hands-on experience in developing and commercializing frozen snacks and/or ambient food products.
- Strong expertise in recipe formulation, food processing, and industrial-scale production.
- Experience in scaling products from kitchen trials to mass manufacturing.
- Knowledge of freezing technology, food preservation, shelf-life management, and packaging.
- Understanding of FSSAI regulations, HACCP, GMP, and food safety standards.
- Strong knowledge of ingredient functionality, sensory evaluation, and product costing.

## Key Skills
- Current Product Development (NPD)
- Food R&D; and Recipe Formulation
- Frozen Food Technology
- Ambient Food Processing
- Industrial Manufacturing & Mass Production
- Recipe Standardization
- Commercialization & Scale-up
- Shelf-life Validation
- Food Safety & FSSAI Compliance
- BOM, Costing & SOP Development
- Process Optimization

## What We Expect
- Ability to independently develop products from concept to commercial launch.
- Strong understanding of both culinary innovation and food technology.
- Ability to convert kitchen-level recipes into standardized products suitable for mass production.
- Focus on quality, consistency, scalability, and commercial viability.

📌 Head of NPD / R&D Chef (Bengaluru)
🏢 Timmur Food
📍 Bengaluru