R&D / Product Development Associate

About the Job

Natures Rule, a leader in sports nutrition product manufacturing that deals primarily in the development and private labeling of dietary supplements/sports nutrition are currently seeking a Product Development Individual to fill a position at our Cairo, Egypt facility.

This is a great opportunity to work in a world-class organization and a hands-on experience to develop sports/dietary supplement products.

This position will conduct day-to-day project work in the development of products and manufacturing processes for current and new dry mix sports/dietary supplement beverages.

POSITION DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist with and develop a variety of dry mix sports product development projects with learning and development opportunities.
• Assist in formulating new products and making Table Tops.
• Assist in nutrition labeling and regulatory affairs for Canada, the US, Europe, Middle East, and other countries.
• Monitors trends in the sports nutrition industry to propose and focus on future projects.
• Develop and implements standard operating procedures for laboratories.
• Performs manual and automated testing following SOPs.
• Maintain appropriate testing control and quality assurance procedures.
• Perform sensory evaluation of raw materials.
• Assist in designing and maintaining experiment records.
• Assist product development manager in writing specifications for the manufacturing/production processes, instrumentation, and equipment, from the lab through production scale-up to meet product/process design requirements.
• Assist in performing analysis of data collected from various experiments for Product Evaluation.
• Coordinate/assist with special projects.
• Manage sample and documentation requests with lab and suppliers for new ingredients, organize documentation.
• Maintain accurate sourcing data, liaison for new ingredients with R&D and Purchasing teams.
• Review documentation for new ingredients to ensure compliance to set standards and specific requirements.
• Regularly reach out to new and current suppliers to inquire about trends and innovation.
• Enter all approved formulations and raw ingredients into SAP for production/handle all formula and raw material updates.