Head - Research & Development - FMCG

Head - Research & Development - Food

Responsibilities:

- Head of R&D is to setup, administer, direct, and coordinate the functions of the Research and Development Department. This position must focus on customers expectations, prevent problems and strive for continuous improvement, resulting in improved results for themselves, customers and other employees.

- The incumbent is directly and predominantly involved in New Product development monitoring trial results ; evaluating scalability of production and participating the launch planning .

- This function also plays a critical role in Identifying and evaluating vendors who can conform to quality principles and yet ensure uninterrupted production.

- Innovating packaging and at the same time complying with all statutory requirements related to packaging is a major challenge for this function.

- Innovative product development initiatives.

- Collaborate with Regulatory to prepare product dossiers to meet regulatory compliance

Qualifications & Skills:

- Post graduate (M Sc./M.Tech), preferably in Food Technology

- Candidate should have 18-25 yrs experience in a reputed food processing industry/FMCG sector with at least 5-8 years in managing Process and R&D functions.

- Experience in R&D, New Product Development, Setting of R&D Centers, Food Safety, Product introduction, Food Regulations and Quality Assurance is desired.