Product Developement Supervisor at Millar Cameron

Job Description

The Product Development Supervisor’s responsibilities will be as follows:
• Continuously enhance knowledge about raw materials and product formulation to increase department efficiency.
• Transfer technical knowledge to the product developers.
• Ensure regular communication with sales team to understand priorities of development task.
• Handle the technical part of the company’s relationship with raw materials suppliers. Make full use of their technical support to ensure transfer of knowledge to the company.
• Ensure necessary raw materials are available in the laboratory.
• Develop products and application recipes to answer the needs of customers through thorough understanding of tasks (Asana) and communication with sales team.
• Ensure alignment with the sales team in understanding of the project.
• Screen and identify the right raw materials for an optimized collection.
• Optimize use of raw materials based on a combination of technical efficiency, cost efficiency and availability.
• Develop a fine pallet for food and beverage taste profiles (benchmark) to develop relevant products.
• Consider all taste, regulatory, quality, commercial and efficiency parameters when developing products.
• Develop project plan and coordinate other resources to achieve goals (customer adoption).
• Design and execute trials, analyse and interpret data to make technical decisions for projects.
• Ensure training and transfer of specification knowledge to quality and production team.
• Support quality and production team to resolve ingredient, formula, process issues and manage product/process changes.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams on implementing new equipment and processes.

The ideal candidates will have the following profile:
• 5 years of experience in Research & Development or Product Development
• 3 years of experience in the Flavours industry.
• Applications experience in beverages, confectionary, dairy or sweet goods.
• Strong passion for food innovation and product development.
• A self-motivated, independent individual with strong communication skills.

On offer, will be a competitive salary and an excellent package