Senior Executive / Assistant Manager – Application & Evaluation (Sweet Goods)

Key Accountabilities:

• Strong Food Chemistry and Technology background.
• Conduct applications of flavors received from the Flavor creation department.
• Apply new flavors in various confectionary and bakery applications like chocolates, jellies, gummies, cookies, cream filled biscuits, cakes, nutrition and cereal bars etc.
• Conduct shelf life studies in case if required;
• Calculate related technical data and rank flavours; Check overall acceptability of flavours; Proactive application and evaluation of new flavour creation
• Standardize recipes as per FSSAI Rules and limits; Identify gaps for complying with prescribed norms; Conduct trials by changing variables; Check applications of the same after required changes
• Collect data related to profile, Legal status, specific gravity etc; Co-ordinate with IT and provide inputs for software on flavour library
• Collect new products from market from sweet goods category; Conduct sensory evaluation of the same
• Generating new concepts in foods; Search innovative ideas for existing food promotion; present acceptable ideas to evaluation panel; Conduct trials of various combinations of foods.
• Proactively come up with concepts meeting consumer acceptance.
• Ability to handle technical queries put forward by customers.
• Knowledge on food laws for confectionary and bakery / sweet goods category.
• Ingredient knowledge and its interaction in the product.

Should be good in food and flavour evaluation and suggest improvements.