Product Dev Technician

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We are looking to hire a Technical Project Leader
- Tea in our Beverages team based in Bangalore:
Job Purpose:
Work on beverages innovation/ renovation/ Value improvement projects for both product and process development

Lead innovation projects as technical project leader, Planning and execution of experiments.

Superior Innovations:

- Technical Project Leader for formulation design work for innovations & cost saving initiatives to deliver superior and consumer winning products OTIF
- Responsible formulation prototyping at pilot scale and deployment at main plant for scale up.
- Responsible for specification of formulation, process, pack and Quality Assurance regimes to support / enforce these specs agreed technical action standards.
- 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
- Drive world class project management in line with QII for all key projects.
- Understanding key consumer and market insights and translating them into product properties & performance
- Anticipate assessment and minimization of environmental, safety, regulatory, PR and competitive challenges
- Develop technical expertise in relevant technologies as applicable to beverages.
- Build and maintain strong networks with cross functional (Brand, CMI, SC etc) teams

Value Improvement
- Deliver 5S 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/regulatory compliance with local & regional requirements.
- 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.
- 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

General Skills
- Excellent communication and Presentation skills
- Analytical mindset
- Project Management
- Ability to work in cross functional/cultural team

Standard of leadership (SOL)
- Consumer and Customer Focus
- Accountability and responsibility
- Bias for Action
- Ability to lead from the front

Education

B. Tech. (Food Technology/Chemical Engineering/Dairy Technology) Or Masters /

M. Sc. / M Tech Food Science & Tech. / Chemical Engineering / Food engineering with relevant experience.

Required Experience

8-10 years of experience, preferably beverages sector experience from reputed industry/organisation.

Experience in Tea, Coffee and Herbal Infusions desirable