Product Development Manager - R&D - Salty Snacks Segment

Product: Salty Snacks

- New Product and process development to fuel category growth and reformulation of existing products to achieve margin improvement through innovation and consumer satisfaction

- Lead disruptive innovation process to develop products "FIRST to the market" and thus create competitive advantage

- Lead team to create the concept and demonstrate the same in "Road Show" for salty snacks formats.

- Create future pipeline of products in Premium category and manage the same till commercialization

- Thorough understanding of various snack manufacturing technologies i.e extrusion snacks , baking , seasoning and scale up process and execution

- Lead Technology transfer to manufacturing units and vendors

- Partnership building with Vendors, Business Partners etc and recommend next phase of technology (jointly).

- Understanding of seasoning development process and able to guide flavour houses for develop seasoning for consumer delighting experience.

- Thorough understanding of functions of Ingredients, Product costing etc.

- Lead and manage Specification Management process related to the category

- Leading team in HACCP, Food Safety, Product stability and Adherence to Regulation culture

- Driving the category through collaboration with all stakeholders and ensure smooth functioning of development and execution process

- Developing High Performance Team through coaching and guidance