R&D Product Development Manager (Experienced in Food Manufacturing)

HeadHunter; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 420,000,000 - 660,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HeadHunter seeks an experienced R&D Leader to drive bakery-focused innovations from ideation to commercialization. You will supervise cross-functional teams, ensure compliance with food safety certifications, and push for continuous improvement in quality, cost, and output.

Your role includes mentoring staff, shaping development plans, and tracking value creation for the portfolio. The position emphasizes strategic leadership, risk management, and delivering market-ready products while

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in Food Technology, Chemical Engineering or related field.
• Certified in FSSC, Halal, leadership training, problem solving/improvement tools.
• Strong knowledge in bakery, ingredients, and cooking technique.
• Expertise in sensory analysis and market insight.
• Drives results especially in NPD Stage.
• Good problem solving, people development, and leadership skills.
• Experience as a project manager for technical food implementation.

Responsibilities

• Communicate a clear brief of overall project innovation and perform risk analysis and feasibility studies.
• Prepare project timeline and track progress through pre NPD meetings.
• Monitor innovation progress and ROI, and implement contingency plans as needed.
• Lead cross-functional teams through Stage-Gate to bring ideas from ideation to commercialization.
• Ensure compliance with food safety regulations, industry standards, and relevant certifications.
• Inspire the team to pursue breakthrough innovations and manage change effectively.
• Conduct ongoing coaching and development plans for team members.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

People development

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Food Technology or Chemical Engineering

Job description

• Communicate a clear brief of overall project innovation, describe the whole risk analysis and feasibility
• Prepare project timeline and tracking regularly through pre NPD meeting
• Monitoring achievement of overall innovation progress and contribution to overall NSV, and ROI (spending vs result) and do contigency and mitigation plan for any hurdle and failure
• Lead cross-functional teams through the Stage and Gate steps, ensuring seamless product development from ideation to commercialization,
• Ensure compliance with food safety regulations, industry standards, and certifications relevant to the bakery industry.
• Inspire the culture of creating innovation to the team, especially for breakthrough and out of the box innovation and courage to face all of the constraint and change management
• Prepare project timeline and tracking regularly through monthly VE & improvement meeting and monitor achievement with finance and purchasing team in monthly basis
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, promoting a culture of innovation and quality excellence within the R&D department and build awareness of current product performance in term of quality / cost / output and sales performance / consumer feedback
• Inspire innovation of improving current portfolio with stronger USP, another value added for consumer, more competitive cost etc into clear action plans
• Observe the chance and challenge to embrace new technology to be implented inhouse or other breakthrough strategy and creative countermeasure strategy to overcome all of the possible challenges and hurdle
• Do research to know what are new in R&D organization around the world, how they evolve their competencies, research methodology, etc
• Review current job expectation, team competencies and develop improvement plans with HC
• Prepare individual development plans for team's personal career growth with HC
• Conduct day to day coaching and mentoring with detail plans and BAU for problem solving related

Qualifications

• Min. Bachelor's degree majoring in Food Technology, Chemical Engineering, or related majors
• Certified in FSSC, Halal, leadership training, problem solving/improvement tools,
• Strong knowledge in bakery, ingredients, and cooking technique
• Expertise in sensory analysis and market insight
• Drives result especially in NPD Stage
• Has a good problem solving skill, people development, and leadership
• Experienced as a project manager for technical food implementation