R&D Manager

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates a strong passion for food and innovation.
• Develop and create new plant-based meat alternative products for both mainstream and ethnic market.
• Lead new product development and existing product improvement projects, which including ingredients sourcing / evaluation, recipe development and tasting event.
• Complete food ingredients costing for the products developed.
• Demonstrates expertise in running line trials and working with plant personnel, Operations and QA during the commercialization process.
• Nutritional analysis / calculation and ingredient list development using Axxya program.
• Develop and refine specification for new and existing products.
• Work along-side multiple departments with all aspects of product roll-out, including BOM, SOP and initial production run.
• Maintains a high level of knowledge base regarding market trends and new ingredient opportunities through attending industry seminars, continuing education, trade shows, industry periodicals, and professional technical/culinary associations.
• Identifying strategic initiatives, opportunities and threats with respect to vegan protein products and new product development
• Maintain product yields data base and production recipes, ensure all changes are tracked accordingly
• Develop and maintain strong effective relationships with supplier and customer technical, sales and marketing teams to ensure expectations are communicated clearly
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in food science, food engineering, or related field of study. Culinary education preferred
• 3 to 5 years of working as an industrial food developer is required. Additional culinary development experience preferred.
• Ability to demonstrate strong organizational and project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills will be required to work with internal and external contacts
• Strong understanding of ingredient functionality, food safety and regulatory affairs
• Travel, up to 25% of the time

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $82,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Folcroft, PA 19032: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• industrial food developer: 3 years (Required)
• Culinary: 1 year (Preferred)
• FDA regulations: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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