Senior R and D Food Manager - Johannesburg Verfied

Salary Negotiable Johannesburg, Gauteng Johannesburg, Gauteng more than 14 days ago 26-10-2020 5:59:35 AM
21-12-2020 5:59:35 AM
Senior R&D Food Manager - Selby, Johannesburg
Salary up to R1M PA Negotiable based on experience
Reporting to: Research & Development Co-Ordinator
Requirements NON NEGOTIABLE:
• Master in Food Technology, Nutritional Sciences with an added advantage for Quality Management
• Minimum of eight years’ experience in Research and Development in a food manufacturing environment with a focus on bakery technology and applications.
• Competency in project management and handling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience in cooperative personnel management.
• A sure feeling of food market trends, flavours, passionate and innovative in developments.
• High-quality standards and a strong drive towards sustainability topics, clean labelling and legal compliance.
• Experience in working with food safety management systems.
• Competency in food chemistry and well acquainted with the function of ingredients, compiling specifications, ingredients lists and other back of pack information.
• Knowledge of the South African food labelling legislation.
• Competency in nutritional profiling and calculations.
• Advanced Microsoft Office Skills, especially Excel with excellent mathematical skills for costing and capacity calculations and statistical evaluations are a basic requirement.
• Experience in product development from briefing to launch including sensory evaluations.
• Proficient in speaking and writing in English with report writing excellent oral and digital presentation skills.
Background
You are working in a dynamic, high-performance environment. As a member of the Research & Development department, you will report to the Research and Development Co-ordinator. You will represent the Research & Development Co-ordinator in all aspects including project management and overseeing a team of up to five R&D Technologists with the prospect of growing into the position of the R&D Co-ordinator.
Duties:
• Trend-scouting internationally and driving the innovation process for a long-term product pipeline.
• Own product development from briefing via lab and factory trials until execution in the factory including the accompanying documentation.
• Projects comprise new developments as well as improvements to our existing range and solving technical questions relating to the production process improvements.
• Designing, conducting and documenting sensory evaluations and tastings.
• You screen scientific research and build up the company knowledge on ingredients, dough characteristics, fermentation and correlated sensory functionality.
• Evaluation of marketing briefings and developing project plans form a costing, timing and feasibility point of view.
• Designing production processes for new product lines and assisting in specifying equipment.
• Management of various projects, allocating resources, following up on execution and timelines of milestones.
• Generating and checking costings, back of pack information specifications, and other relevant documentation including instructions for photoshoots and packaging.
• Liaison with the Marketing Department and Project Management in respect of concepts, packaging and the process of new product development.
• Responsible for the maintenance and development of the recipe, ingredients and specifications database IMS.
• A food safety team member and acting as a liaison to the Quality Assurance Department concerning GMP, HACCP, ISO standards, specifications, customer complaints and other quality matters.