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Department Manager - Own Brand (Bakery Business)

Lotus's
Lotus's (Bueng Kum)
Bueng Kum
Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭
Lotus's
At Lotus's, we get up every morning and questioned ourselves daily on how we can serve our customers better. Lotus’s is an omni-channel retailer in Thailand, with a commitment to providing great quality products at affordable prices, while doing good things for our customers, colleagues, and communities. We serve customers through our network of more than 2,000 stores nationwide and online platforms, with more than 10.8 transactions made per week. We strive to cater to the ever-changing lifestyles of our customers, with a goal to deliver convenience and a seamless shopping experience anywhere anytime.

Detail posisi

The Department Manager - Own Brand (Bakery Business) is responsible for leading the development of innovative bakery and food products, ensuring they meet market trends and commercial requirements while maintaining high quality and compliance with food regulations.

Kewajiban

• Perform market trends, consumer preferences, and competitor products in the bakery and food industry to identify opportunities for product differentiation and innovation.
• Lead the development of new bakery and food products, considering taste, texture, nutritional value, and market trends to meet commercial requirement.
• Design and evaluate materials, processes and machine & Equipment for instore production.
• Formulate and optimize recipes for bakery and food products meet food law, food regulation (food ingredient, food additive) and meet target cost from commercial.
• Identify and evaluate new and existing ingredients for their applicability in bakery and food products and collaborate with suppliers to source high-quality/new trend of ingredients in development process and align with the company's standards.
• Conduct sensory evaluations to ensure the products meet quality standards and customer expectations.
• Present food trend/prototype to commercial for new product kick off, prepare product for commercial shooting and present to management.
• Create food cost calculation base on raw material costs to ensure profitable product.
• Crate BOM for buyer final price of product and SC ordering raw material.
• Create recipe card and training for operation teams to scale up recipes for mass production.
• Owner for tracking critical path of development process and follow up relevant department to meet target launch plan.

Kualifikasi

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Culinary Arts, Bakery Science, or a related field.
• Experience in product development within the bakery or food industry.
• Knowledge of food laws, regulations, and safety standards.
• Recipe Development: Proficiency in formulating and optimizing recipes.
• Market Analysis: Ability to analyze market trends and consumer preferences.
• Sensory Evaluation: Conducting taste tests to ensure product quality.
• Project Management: Tracking development processes and meeting launch targets.
• Collaboration: Working with suppliers and internal teams to source ingredients and scale up production.

Keuntungan

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Huneety A.I Salary Estimate
56,000 - 135,000 THB per month