We at Vadilal Industries firmly believe in delivering best quality of products & services to our customers. We strive to create great tasting icecreams and processed foods by offering wide array flavors that our customers crave for. Our aim is to satisfy the needs of our customers by delivering them with best in class and safe
products.
Along with innovation our focus is on the ease of access of our products to our customers. Vadilal offers a wide variety of fine quality products at affordable rates. We believe in spreading happiness through our products without burning a hole in your pocket.
Vadilal Group believes in creating and improvising products by recognizing and adopting the changing needs of our customers. Vadilal offers variety of exciting products for all age groups and aims to come up with various innovative products to satisfy our customers.
We at Vadilal value our customers and ensure they are content with the products. For over 80 years now, Vadilal continues to gain confidence of their customers by living up to its repute of giving affordable products without compromising in the quality.
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The spirit of Vadilal Group’s Integrity commitment is set forth in the Vadilal Group Code of Conduct, which each Vadilal Group employee has made a personal commitment to follow:
- Obey the applicable laws and regulations governing our business conduct worldwide.
- Be honest, fair and trustworthy in all of your activities and relationships.
- Avoid all conflicts of interest between work and personal affairs.
- Foster an atmosphere in which fair employment practices extend to every member of the diverse
Vadilal Group community.
- Through leadership at all levels, sustain a culture where ethical conduct is recognized, valued and exemplified by all employees.
- Never compromise on the quality and effort we put into all our products and services
- Using state of the art technology to ensure that our products & services meet the requirements of this ever changing world.
No matter how high the stakes, no matter how great the challenge, Vadilal Group will do business only by lawful and ethical means. When working with customers and Suppliers in every aspect of our business, we will not compromise our commitment to integrity, which is why we are where we are today.
About the job
We are hiring for the position of Head -New Product Development (FMCG Food) International Business at the Corporate level for Vadilal Industries Ltd.
- Salary: Open for discussion.
- Bond: 3 Years
- Candidates having major experience in handling new product development in the frozen food category with a background in Food Technology can apply.
Job Description:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- · Responsible for management of New Product Development, Procurement, Vendor Development, and contract management for all Projects related to International Business.
- · Understands the market priorities of the organization and provides inputs to support the formulation of procurement and new product development strategy based on the criticality of requirements, cost control norms, and quality specifications.
- Develops strategic plans for efficient procurement process and translate them into standard processes and systems to improve operation efficiency and cost and efforts.
- · Oversees the techno-commercial negotiation with identified vendors/suppliers for major/ critical procurement to ensure the best possible terms of sourcing for the organization in terms of price, quality, and services by evaluating offers and giving counter offers based on industrial standards.
- · Review the key performance metrics of the function on a periodic basis and intervene as and when necessary
- Monitors performance of the function against set goals and against the budget on a periodic basis
- · Drives cost efficiencies in the operations; identifies new and innovative ways to drive cost reduction in Procurement.
- · Third-party operations management viz, ordering, inventory control, close coordination with the concerned department.
- · Ensuring timely fulfilment of orders and backward working at the supplier end to ensure smooth operations.
- · Identify, source, and manage R&D for new ingredients to develop new formulations and make improvements to existing products, and develop new products as per market requirements.
- · Optimize and scale up manufacturing operations for new products to support the growth of the organization.
- · Responsible for the timely and right execution of product development activities including formulation development, supporting pilot & and plant trials, sensory evaluation, and R&D documentation.
- · Coordinating and conducting value-added audits of the third-party manufacturing units and any other essential audits as per business requirements.
- · Based on Audit findings, encourage and support the vendor to get all non-conformities overcome and get the vendor facility up to date as per norms.
- · Ensure compliance with regulatory documents as prescribed by the exporting country.
- · Support Third-party operation and QA to resolve ingredient, formula, label, and process issues.
- · Manage product specifications, documents, and system entries in (SAP).
- · Investigate, report, and make sound recommendations on technical issues based on the data analysis, QC findings, and Third-party inputs.
- · Cost control through ongoing review of formulation, developing vendors for improving operational efficiencies, identifying bottlenecks, and providing solutions to have the best efficient sourcing.
- · Keeping track of Third-party account ledger, receivables, payment, stock, etc. Ensure commercial agreement with the third party is in place and being followed religiously.
- · Ensures timely goal setting, monitoring, review of performance parameters, and feedback to team members; ensures the same across the department.
- · Monitors the performance of employees within the department and takes action wherever necessary.
Desired Candidate Profile:
- · Graduate in Food Technology, Food Science.
- · Minimum 18 Years of work experience work experience in the areas of product/process development, ingredient research, product formulation, specification development, analytical measurements, scale-up, and commercialization.
- · Techno-commercial skills who understand business prospects and opportunities to improve spending with a better value of money.
- · Sound knowledge of Dairy and food processing technology, specifically, Sweets, Bakery, Paneer, etc.
- · Updated with the latest innovations in Dairy and Food processing and trends.
- · Regulatory awareness, networking, commitment, team player.
- · Understanding of Food Safety laws, food safety-based process requirements, and HACCP/ ISO 22000/ FSSC 22000 implementations.
- · Knowledge of External Audits/ 3rd party audits with Testing, Inspection and Certifications requirements.
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