Ice Cream Product Designer Job in Bangalore at Unilever

Unilever is hiring for the role of Ice Cream Product Designer!

Responsibilities Of Candidate:

• Product development: Work in the laboratory to carry out “on the bench” experiments and in a pilot plant to develop novel ice cream products per brief within the cost and regulatory framework.
• Process development: Establishing appropriate process routes for manufacturing different ice cream product formats to specification at lab, pilot, and factory scale. Optimize processing parameters.
• Leading projects: Ability to lead small and medium complexity NPD projects independently end to end and effectively manage cross-functional business partners.
• Shelf-life stability: conduct studies to establish shelf-life, melt properties, and other characteristics of new products, and intervene through formulation/process to enhance the quality of products.
• Product characterization: Use appropriate measurement techniques (either existing or developing new techniques) to analyze or characterize key attributes of the ingredients, intermediate products, and Finished goods.
• Process scale-up: Establish processes developed at lab/pilot-scale into HUL factories/3Ps to enable commercial production; Trouble-shooting at factory-scale when required; continuously look for / experiment with new ingredients/recipes/technologies to develop products and processes that offer tangible, new benefits to the consumer and business. Prepare Technical transfer documents and train factory/3P personnel.
• Effective liaison with other R&D functions, GDC and RDC teams, factories / 3Ps / UL Supply chain, marketing, and other cross-functions
• Up to date with ice-cream consumer trends, new Ingredients developments, and vendor capabilities; drive value improvement programs
• Work with the team to build R&D capability in the identified areas. 
• Drive best practices – New specifications writing (PLM), Adopt Digital R&D working, project management (IPM)t, and technical report writing

Requirements:

• Growth Mindset
• Real accountability
• External orientation
• Action not debate
• Education: Master’s degree in Dairy/Food Science or related course
• Work experience: 1-2 Years, Experience in foods R&D, dairy industry, new foods product and process development and scale up Preferred