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R&D Manager (Food Ingredients)

The Mighty (Lat Phrao)
Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭
Since 1989, THE MIGHTY has been an innovative company in Bangkok, Thailand offering high-quality food ingredients and customised solutions to domestic and export markets. THE MIGHTY’s product ranges include reaction flavours, flavour precursors, savoury condiments, culinary oils, cheese and dairy, and specialty blends.

About this position

It’s an exciting time to join our newly combined organization and become part of the New The Mighty! We serve a large variety of end markets, and our products can be found in thousands of consumer products around the world. The Mighty is seeking for a highly dedicated individual to join our team as an R&D Manager.

Responsibilities

• People Management: Lead Product Development Team and deploy appropriate resources against development projects, managing R&D team and cross-functional working when required. Manage and prioritize work and projects which support the strategic plan for business growth and profit improvement.
• Country representative: represents The Mighty in relevant Global NovaTaste R&D ensuring alignment with functional goals and supporting the sharing of best practices and innovation ideas.
• Representing NovaTaste and The Mighty´s know-how in front of customers: you will develop strong regional customers’ technical engagement and relationships via on-site and customer’s facility visits.
• Technical & Leadership capabilities: Build technological and leadership capabilities across R&D team by developing an efficient team committed to excellence, performance and shared accountability. Develop top talent and manage and develop technical and leadership competency to address succession planning needs. Create a robust technical community to develop best in class practices and allow transfer of knowledge across functions, whilst maintaining required confidentiality.
• Renovation Champion: Lead Product Development activities to support local continuous cost improvement to improve margin performance that delivers a competitive edge, such as formula simplification and rationalization.
• Food Manufacturing standards: Implement effective systems and processes to enable functional and organizational effectiveness. Ensure activities related to the functional compliance with relevant Regulation/Legal Requirements, Business Ethics and Food Manufacturing Standards. Manage adherence to applicable Global, Regional and Local policies and standards to protect proprietary information.
• Compliance Management: Responsible for the overall health and safety of the R&D team and through the management of the Regulatory function, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Technology or related field.
• 10-15 years Product Development Experiences in Food Industry.
• Extensive experience in product development formulations (food) and demonstrated experience in the associated Manufacturing, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance Techniques.
• Experience in leading product development and technical teams across various product categories (seasonings, coatings, condiments, sauces, meat products, snacks, noodles, etc.).
• Experience in multinational companies working across multiple regions.

Benefits

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Huneety A.I Salary Estimate
85,000 - 150,000 THB per month