R&D Lead

Job Description

• Demonstrates an understanding of savoury flavours, yeast-based ingredients, their unique attributes, how and why they impart taste.
• Demonstrates development and manufacturing knowledge for wet and dry goods such as like chips and extruded snacks, noodles, sauces, and/or prepared meals areas
• Through experience can develop recipes and attributes for these products at bench level and to perform upscale trials that replicate the manufacturing process.
• Support customer demonstrations of new technology.

• Ensures appropriate documentation of experimental trials and outcomes to facilitate scale-up and product transfer to manufacturing.
• Builds further scientific knowledge through interactions with RDA managers and directors and/or academic experts, literature reviews, regulatory monitoring, and application studies.

• Anticipate, investigate, and resolve problems with application prototypes, applying new ingredients and technologies, flavour systems, and finished prototypes.
• Other duties as assigned

Job Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Agriculture/ Food Science/ Science.
• 3-5 years of experience in same or related field.
• Ability to taste and discriminate sensory properties of flavours & applications.
• Culinary experience and expertise, demonstrating culinary techniques, and creativity.
• Has developed great tasting products using e.g., flavours, herbs & spices, natural ingredients, to create a formulation for the end consumer.
• Has the ability to advance many projects simultaneously.
• Can prioritize projects and successfully deliver many under strict timelines.
• Experience in working with pilot-scale equipment for developing application samples for showing to the customer.
• Passion about spice & developing mixes
• Very good command of English