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Manager, New Product Development
atLotus's (Ek-Chai Distribution System Co., Ltd.)Key Responsibility:
- Perform market trends, consumer preferences, and competitor products in the bakery and food industry to identify opportunities for product differentiation and innovation,
- Lead the development of new bakery and food products, considering taste, texture, nutritional value, and market trends to meet commercial requirement.
- Design and evaluate materials, processes and machine & Equipment for instore production.
- Formulate and optimize recipes for bakery and food products meet food law, food regulation (food ingredient, food additive) and meet target cost from commercial.
- Identify and evaluate new and existing ingredients for their applicability in bakery and food products and collaborate with suppliers to source high-quality/new trend of ingredients in development process and align with the company's standards.
- Conduct sensory evaluations to ensure the products meet quality standards and customer expectations.
- Present food trend/prototype to commercial for new product kick off, prepare product for commercial shooting and present to management.
- Create food cost calculation base on raw material costs to ensure profitable product.
- Crate BOM for buyer final price of product and SC ordering raw material
- Create recipe card and training for operation teams to scale up recipes for mass production
- Owner for tracking critical path of development process and follow up relevant department to meet target launch plan.
Qualifications:
- Educational background in Food Science, Product development, Culinary Arts, or a related field
- Proven experience in product development within the bakery and food industry and familiar with food safety regulation and quality control process
- Familiarity with food regulations and experience working with regulatory affairs teams to ensure
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Have a proactive and innovative mindset
- Strong culinary creativity and an understanding of flavor profiles, food pairings, and culinary techniques to develop unique and appealing products
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities, market trends, and consumer preferences, and to adjust R&D strategies accordingly
- Meticulous attention to detail
Experience required
- any or no experience
Career level
- Middle Level
Salary
- Negotiable
Job function
- Product / Brand Management
- Management
Job type
- Full-time
Company overview
Size:2000-5000 employees
Industry:Retail
Location:Bangkok
Website:www.lotuss.com
Founded in:1994
Ranking:4/5
At Lotus's, we get up every morning and questioned ourselves daily on how we can serve our customers better. Lotus’s is an omni-channel retailer in Thailand, with a commitment to providing great quality products at affordable prices, while doing good things for our customers, colleagues ...
Why join us: “At Lotus's, we are looking for people who are the change-agent with a passion to grow in both work and life. People who have the ability to think in an agile way and make everyday as a history to leave their own legacy in every part of business.” Lotus's People are: People wh ...
Job location: Bueng Kum
Head office: 629/1 Nawamintr Road, Nuanchan, Buengkoom, Bangkok 10230 , Thailand
Benefits
- Overtime pay
- Life Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Company uniform
- Learning & Development Opportunities
- Health Insurance
- Provident fund
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