Technical Head - Bakery

Requisition ID: 60126

Position Type: FT Permanent

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About The Role

• Location: Bangalore (Pritech Park), India
• Reporting to: RDA Director- IS
  
  

Key responsibilities

• Innovation - Lead projects in the bakery application to deliver topline innovation revenue
• Lead resource allocation for the End Use Market
• Lead understanding, approval, project management and stakeholder management
• Provide key technical inputs to team to ensure timely delivery of applications.
• Work with manager to manage costs for the function and ensure positive ROI.
• Work towards bringing in novel ideas to innovation funnel & ‘New to Kerry’ ideas.
• Productivity - Lead the productivity agenda to deliver profitability improvement
• Existing Business support - Support existing business via high quality application support,training, and development of extended team. Actively work with Regulatory team to alwaysensure compliance for portfolio.
• Team development – Understanding motivators, strengths and weakness of team members and work towards developing team. Use the objective setting process and review mechanismseffectively to develop the team
• Develop self – Develop self to take up new challenges in the field of food science. Keep abreastwith latest trends and technologies, market dynamics, customer & stakeholder challenges andactively seek solutions from & beyond Kerry portfolio.
  
  

Qualifications And Skills

Must have’s

• Technical background with M. Tech/ M.Sc. in food science/ technology & relevant professional
• experience of minimum 12 years
• B. Tech food science/ technology with Minimum 15 years of experience.
• Ability to manage a team of minimum 5 team members towards project delivery.
• Knowledge of handling industrial manufacturing/processing especially for trials at customer place
• Expert level knowledge of Bakery products like hard bakes, soft bakes and wafers/ rolls
• Aware of business and commercial understanding and how RDA impacts the ROI.
• Experience in customer interaction and customer driven technical support.
• Ability to manage internal stakeholders like regulatory, marketing, sales, and project managers.
• Technical understanding of Good Lab Practices
  
  

Good to have’s

• Knowledge of plant processes, quality, supply chain, project management areas
• Front end innovation, Design to value and general management area.
• PMP certification/ other project management certifications
  
  

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.

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