R&D Food Technology - Breads / Bakery / Ingredients / Food

About Our Client

Client is a food ingredient giant with presence in 30+ countries globally and significant R&D Footprint for industry leading product portfolio

Job Description

• Direct the New Product Development Teams towards creating sustainable product pipelines for bakery ingredients portfolio
• Lead the teams to broader technologies like protein technologies, natural solutions and functional flours, to deliver superior results
• Work in collaboration with customers, internal stakeholders, institutions and ingredient suppliers towards positive impact on New Product Development and better value creation for customers
• Recommend the management towards potential and strategic acquisition opportunities in line with organisation long term goals
• Assist with CAPEX plans, project management, raw material, packaging, shipping, and similar manufacturing support to ensure process excellence and operational efficiency
• Provide insights and suggest disruptive / innovative technologies for the management to achieve efficient manufacturing capabilities
• Liaise with Human resource team to ensure talent requirements, training and adequate development goals for the R&D teams

The Successful Applicant

• Master's / Doctorate degree in Food Technology, Bakery Science, or any relevant field
• Highly developed personal computing skills including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat (or other art-related software) for frequent interaction with internal and external customers.
• Exposure of bakery ingredients, bakery applications, product innovation, improvers, enzymes and emulsifiers is a must

Candidate must have atleast 14+ years of experience from a relevant Food Ingredients and Bakery / Bread Products background