General Mills established its presence in Asia more than 30 years ago. Ever since, we’ve been rapidly growing in scale, momentum and profile, adding new locations in nations throughout the region and people with the heart to accelerate our success. Are you an ambitious, energetic individual determined to win? This is your chance to enjoy a fast-paced setting and fulfill our vision of exciting expansion deep into the future. Build your career as well as an industry-leading organization: General Mills.
General mills, We are among the world’s larger food companies with trusted brands like Pillsbury™, Betty Crocker™, Nature Valley™ and Häagen-Dazs™ and many more.
1996 marked the Launch of Pillsbury™ in Indian households with Atta mixes serving deliciously soft rotis. It has gone on to become one of India’s most trusted and favourite brands. Since the beginning of our journey, we have been pleasuring Indian taste buds with our wide range of innovative products across Atta, Baking and even Snacking category.
We are one of the fastest growing consumer foods companies in the country. Our goal is to serve delightful, innovative products to Indians who are seeking newer food experiences. We strive towards our goal by combining our global best practises in technology and food expertise with strong local market manufacturing and go-to-market capabilities.
We believe that a happy work environment leads to happy employees. So we take great pride in our people and have been recognised for the same.
We are a Fortune 100 multinational company, yet we operate with the freedom, energy and agility of a start-up.
Key Pillars of WLN in General Mills India Center are:
- Leadership Development
- Talent Advancement & Engagement
- Networking & Community Building (WOLFPACK!) for collective resources, safe space, and allyship
India Foods Business is a full-service manufacturing and marketing unit comprising over 500 employees spread across over multiple locations across India. Our strong suite of products includes the Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Haagen-Dazs and Nature Valley brands in both direct-to-consumer and B2B channels across Retail, Food Service and Bakeries & Exports. We combine the capabilities of a global enterprise with the entrepreneurial spirit and cultural awareness you would expect of a smaller local company.
India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.
Job Description
- Position Title: Manager- R&D (Baking Applications) Or Sr Scientist-II
- Function/Group: R&D/Packaging
- Country: India
- Location: Mumbai
- Role Reports to: Head- FS & Tech
- Geographical Scope: Regional
- Job Type: Full time
- Recommended Level: PG-60
- Percentage of travel required: Approx 20%
Job Overview:
The Research and Development (R&D) Senior Scientist- II for Innovation, Technology, and Quality (ITQ) you will be responsible for developing and advancing technical strategies & initiatives to support the growth of existing products and the development of new products across markets as part of bakeries business. Focus will be largely, but not limited to, development of NDWT portfolio and other expanded bakery adjacencies like glazes, fruit crushes/sauces etc.
Main Responsibilties:
Senior Scientist- II/Baking Application Manager role involves influencing the business on forthcoming business opportunities, strategies to bring new ideas to life through prototyping and a consumer first design mindset, strong collaboration among the O&T team, and developing a solid technical understanding of product development and technology to bring these products to life. This role is expected to be subject matter expert on creams/NDWT. Focus of this role is to meet requirements outlines in this document for NDWT.
25% of time :
- Collaborate and partner with business team to develop innovation strategies for bakery adjacencies
- Leverage a customer first design mindset to identify and validate ideas
- Influence business with differential innovation ideas and bring them to life through real time innovation pipeline
50% of time :
- Leverage product development capabilities to continuously innovate, test and enable commercialization of NPDs
- Lead the ITQ project management for bakery adjacencies to ensure flawless execution of NPDs and renovation projects
- Develop business first mindset and enable cost efficiencies through potential HMM levers (new or existing) to support business model efficiencies for bakery adjacencies.
- Collaborate with technology and other cross functional teams to continuously improve ITQ processes, explore new technical avenues and build technical capabilities for future
25% of time :
- Partner with marketing, consumer insights, operations, sourcing and sales to flawlessly execute projects and grow bakeries business in India
- Serve as technical coach and expert for bakery adjacencies for ITQ as well culinary and sales teams
- Proactively engage with key customers and sales team to ensure technical resolutions in market
- Seve as consultant to supply chain in building relevant manufacturing capabilities in house or with ESCs
- Serve as team lead for small team ITQ scientists for bakery adjacencies.
- Provide knowledge transfer, technical coaching and day today work directions in meeting business objectives
- Ensure core food safety design principles through product development and adhere to Food safety policy requirements for R&D
- Develop, maintain ingredients and finished product specifications content
- Ensure relevant business maintenance activities for bakery adjacencies are undertaken
- Champion the protection and creation of Intellectual Property (IP) and documentation of technical knowledge
Education and Experience:
| Minimum Degree Requirements: | Masters |
| Preferred Degree Requirements: | Masters |
| Preferred Major Area of Study: | Food & Allied Science, Technology |
| Required Professional Certifications: | |
| Preferred Professional Certifications: | |
| Minimum years of related experience required: | 10 Years |
| Preferred years of related experience: | 12-13 Years |
Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed:
- Strong interpersonal skills, comfortable working with a cross functional team and key food service customers
- Demonstrated ability to connect and challenge technical and business partners
- Demonstrated ability to develop effective internal and external networks
- Desire to grow and develop manager of people skills
- Strong bias for action and ability to advance projects with speed and accuracy
- Strong listener and collaborator
- Possibilities thinker, discovery mindset, comfortable with ambiguity yet drives to clarity
- Strong command of the commercialization process
- Willingness to lean into risk, act boldly and move quickly
Competencies/Behaviors required for job:
- Acts Boldly, Moves Quickly
Exhibits resiliency and quickly adapts when faced with changing or competing priorities; demonstrates flexibility in learning and approach Skillfully assesses risk, at times with incomplete information; delivers high quality and timely decisions; challenges status quo
- Influences the Business
Employs an innovative mindset; meets business needs by bringing ideas and concepts to life; makes valuable contributions to create pipeline Uses business acumen to enhance results; appropriately communicates trade-offs and implications; influences scope and outcome of work
- Creates Advantaged Connections
Creates value by building and connecting a relevant and diverse network; makes cross-network connections to drive differentiated results Independently manages relationships; shares appropriate level of information; is trusted to provide direction and feedback; ensures alignment and supports win/win results
- Champions Remarkable Products and Services
Takes ownership to deliver differentiated products and solutions; articulates the business need and influences adoption of superior ideas; Leads identification and execution of solutions to meet business needs; simplifies and articulates complex technical concepts
- Leverages Global Scale, Drive Global Impact
Relates well to a broad network of people; demonstrates sensitivity and effectively communicates across cultures
- Advances Technical Possibilities
Applies possibility thinking to create quality ideas and solutions; identifies novel opportunities; leverages and values divergent thinking, Efficiently and effectively experiments to solve problems; proposes alternatives based on knowledge and experience
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