Assistant Manager - Research & Development - FMCG

About Our Client :

Our Client is on the India's largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company with a heritage of over 8 decades now. Our Client has turnover of above INR 24500 Crores annually.

Our Client is unique with a proud history and a bright future. They have ambitious plans for sustainable growth and an intense sense of social purpose. They meet customers everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life

Job Designation: Assistant R&D Manager

Number of Position(s):1

Qualification: B. Tech, M. Sc, M Tech

Experience: 5-7 yrs

Job Responsibilities : Purpose & Context

- Work on Ice Cream innovation/ renovation/ Value improvement projects for both product and process development

Purpose of the job : Lead innovation projects as technical project leader, Planning and execution of experiments

Deliverables of the Role :

- Consumer & Market Understanding: Understanding the key consumer and market insights and translating them in to product ideas.

Product Design (Ice Creams) :

- Technical Project leader / Formulation / Process design work stream leader for Ice Cream projects / portfolio in South Asia.

- Lead formulation prototyping at pilot scale and deployment at main plant.

- Summarize & apply learning on product formulations from GDC for implementation in the region.

- Lead process design and scalup. Provide design inputs to TPL's and SC partners.

Innovation Projects :

- Technical project Leader in the cross functional project team. Work on key global projects being rolled out in South Asia.

- Responsible for specification of formulation, process, pack and Quality Assurance regimes to support / enforce these specs agreed technical action standards.

- Drive world class project management in line with QII for all key projects.

- Responsible for OTIF implementation of key development / rollout projects in the Region.

- Responsible for updating & maintaining Toolbox integrity for key projects.

- Conduct shelf-life studies to establish shelf-life of new products and/or intervene through formulation/recipes to enhance shelf-life.

- Use appropriate measurement techniques (either existing or develop new techniques) to characterize key attributes of the product

Value Improvement projects :

- Deliver VIP product logic target for the year.

- Identify potential areas of savings and drive them for implementation. Prepare roadmap for margin improvement.

Capability :

- Track moves by key competition & local players by country and carry out competition benchmarking

- Responsible for risk management, claims and legal compliance with local & regional requirements.

- Develop processing capability for all product formats at pilot scale and support scale up to main plant.

- Develop capability to be able to produce finished product of the desired quality with a range of raw materials within the specified range.

- Prepare technical dockets for transferring technologies to SC / factories.

- Establish technology developed at pilot-scale in company's factories to enable commercial production; trouble-shooting at factory-scale when required.

- Enhance Ice Cream /beverage processing technology.

- Continuously look for / experiment with new technologies /recipes to develop products that offer tangible, new benefits to the consumer.

Required Professional skills :

- Developing ideas

- Experimental ability/Techniques

- Data analysis/ interpretation

- Technical report writing

- Science and technology expertise

- Supplier/vendor development support

- Consumer research

- Commercial Knowledge

- Legal and regulatory Knowledge about the product / category

Skills/Expertise : Quality Assurance ; Excellent Communication Skills, Analytical mindset

If interested kindly revert with following details

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Name: Anushka Nibre
Phone: 02225476846