Manager Product Development

Job Summary
- As a Product Development Manager, candidate will play a pivotal role in driving innovation, efficiency, and quality across our product portfolio. Candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams, from R&D to production, to bring new products to market and enhance existing ones. Applicant expertise will shape the entire product development lifecycle, ensuring successful launches and continuous improvement.
- Applicant expertise 1. Product Development 2. Process Design & Application.
- To be based out at Factory and be R&I interface with Operation, QFS and C&P.
- Strong cross functional team player with good communication and leadership skills.
Research & Innovation for projects, execute strategic factory projects, for countries such as India
Collaborate and provide inputs / technical expertise to factory Process Technologist on R & I related topic.

Roles and Responsibilities
Product Development
- Responsible for the timely delivery of assigned projects related to innovation, renovation, secure supply, value optimization and quality improvement projects.
- Responsible for right execution of end-to-end product development activities including formulation development, pilot & plant trials, shelf-life study, sensory evaluation, technology transfer and R&I documentation (specifications, protocols, reports etc.)
- Independently prepares project approach & plan, design of experiments, R&I activity timelines, risk assessment & mitigation plan.
- Design formulation of products that meet the agreed nutritional profile, the regulatory standards and Danone tolerance limits; achieve the cost targets and the taste requirements of the target consumers.
- Define risks, opportunities, and way forward for critical issues related to food safety, quality and regulation.
- Develop, bench test (lab / pilot), scale up and commercialize, ensuring that new and reformulated products are successfully implemented on the production scale and that targeted product performance is achieved.
- Estimate the development costs required for the project assigned and monitor that the spends for the project are within the budget assigned.
- Cultivate an innovative mindset - Follow product trends and ingredient / technology developments in the nutritional food business and help translate these into new product & project ideas.
Process Development
- Lead the development, scale up, implementation & industrialization of new and existing process through New Technology, Equipment and Process Qualification.
- Explore innovative application of process possibilities based on current state-of-the-art food technology and actively engage in evaluating technical feasibility during the process
- Ensure seamless implementation of new technologies across plant operations, supported by process qualification.
- Support the development of robust technology transfer processes to facilitate late-phase production.

Job Specifications
- Dairy Technology / Food technology with 8 12 years experience in the field of product development, Process developments. Experience in the field of baby nutrition is an added advantage.
- Proficient in Excel and good at powder point.
- From Nutrition / Food / Dairy / FMCG companies