Sr. Manager R&D - WET Products (Mananthavady)

Role Overview: As a Senior Product Development Technologist, your primary purpose in this role is to lead the new product development for wet-retorted products. You will be responsible for delivering safe, high-quality, and cost-effective solutions for the Consumer segment. Your accountability lies in translating customer and market needs into commercially scalable products through robust formulation, thermal process design, and cross-functional execution. Responsibilities
- Leading end-to-end development of wet retorted products such as sauces, gravies, and ready-to-eat systems from concept to commercialization.
- Applying Design to Value (DTV) principles to ensure right-first-time delivery, product safety, shelf-life stability, and manufacturability under retort processing conditions.
- Driving disciplined R&D; project management to achieve NPD milestones, accelerate internal technology, and flavor utilization, and deliver projects on time while maintaining competitive differentiation.
- Partnering with customers through technical presentations, product demonstrations, and site engagements to support innovation discussions, address technical challenges, and build a strong opportunity pipeline.
- Developing and approving product and raw material specifications, including ingredient declarations, nutritional data, labeling, and packaging requirements suitable for wet retort processing.
- Leading technology transfer and scale-up of new or improved wet retorted products to Operations and QA, ensuring process robustness, repeatability, and compliance with food safety and quality requirements.
- Proficiency in transitioning products from kitchen/lab scale to mass industrial production, including managing production trials and first commercial runs. Experience & Qualifications:
- B. Tech Food Technology, MSc Food Science, Chemistry from tiers 1 or 2 institute.
- 6
- 8 years in Product Development, specifically within the RETORT/WET products department
- Understanding of HACCP, GMP and International Food Safety Standards is a plus.
- Robust interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proactive and results oriented mindset. Apply on Kit Job: kitjob.in/job/4mtkac