Job Openings Department Manager - Own Brand (Bakery Business)

About the job Department Manager - Own Brand (Bakery Business)

• Perform market trends, consumer preferences, and competitor products in the bakery and food industry to identify opportunities for product differentiation and innovation,
• Lead the development of new bakery and food products, considering taste, texture, nutritional value, and market trends to meet commercial requirement.
• Design and evaluate materials, processes and machine & Equipment for instore production.
• Formulate and optimize recipes for bakery and food products meet food law, food regulation (food ingredient, food additive) and meet target cost from commercial.
• Identify and evaluate new and existing ingredients for their applicability in bakery and food products and collaborate with suppliers to source high-quality/new trend of ingredients in development process and align with the company's standards.
• Conduct sensory evaluations to ensure the products meet quality standards and customer expectations.
• Present food trend/prototype to commercial for new product kick off, prepare product for commercial shooting and present to management.
• Create food cost calculation base on raw material costs to ensure profitable product.
• Crate BOM for buyer final price of product and SC ordering raw material
• Create recipe card and training for operation teams to scale up recipes for mass production
• Owner for tracking critical path of development process and follow up relevant department to meet target launch plan.