Job Description
Job Profile
- Innovate new products, enhance existing ones, and lead product redesigns
- Research the product provided by the marketing team, develop an understanding of its potential in the kitchen, and assess its feasibility to meet requirements.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to product development teams on recipe formulation, ingredient interactions, baking conditions, to ensure product quality, consistency, and alignment with marketing team
- Identify the capabilities of the current processes and machinery. If it is not functioning effectively, determine the type of supplier required to meet the necessary specifications
- Address and solve problems related to recipe formulation, ingredient interactions, baking conditions and provide on time solutions
- Assist with ongoing product improvements and solve issues on existing products
- Provide expert knowledge to existing suppliers and enhance supplier capabilities.
- Collaborate with the supply chain to develop new suppliers, ensuring alternative options are available if the current supplier cannot meet requirements
Candidate Profile
- Minimum 2 - 4 years of working experience in a food manufacturing, pastry, or baking-related industry
- Proven experience in new product development within the food or baking industry
- Having both bachelor’s degree in food science and diploma/experience in baking is highly advantageous.
- Good communication skills in Sinhala & English
Please forward your CV to careers@gamma.lk on or before 03rd April 2025, indicating the position applied for in the subject line.