Research And Development Officer

The R&D Officer for Product Development Section is responsible for developing new products, process innovations, strategic projects, and R&D activities aligned with business objectives. This includes new product launches, cost optimization, quality improvement, and commercialization of new and re-engineered products to ensure superior taste and high acceptability.

Key responsibilities:

• Assist the R&D Manager in formulating short-term and long-term strategies.
• Develop and re-engineer core products as assigned.
• Commercialize new product recipes and formulations, focusing on scheduled new products, ideas, and variants.
• Generate new product concepts through culinary research, exhibitions, benchmarking, and networking with culinary experts.

Responsibilities

• The R&D Officer for Product Development Section is responsible in the development of new products, process innovations, strategic projects, and research and development activities that are consistent with the business objectives, to include such activities but not limited to new product launches, cost optimization initiatives, continuous quality improvement of products, and commercialization of new and re-engineered products and processes with the goal of ensuring taste superiority and high acceptability of products
• The R&D Officer – PDS assists the R&D Manager – PDS for the formulation of strategies and directions, both on short-term and long-term plans, of the Product Development Section.
• Handles the new product development and re-engineering of core products as maybe assigned by the R&D Manager or R&D Director.
• Handles the commercialization of new product recipes and formulation focusing on calendared new products, new food ideas, and new variants and extensions.
• Generates new product concepts through culinary research and forum, food exhibition, shows, food service benchmarking and networking with chefs, culinary experts, and other related association.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in food technology or food science related course
• Experience: At least 3 years relevant experience in R&D of reputable food manufacturing company, can work alone without the direct supervision of Category head
• Training/License/ Certification: Advanced training in HACCP and Food Safety, Certified Internal Quality Auditor by SGS or any similar agency