Food Technologist – Product Development & Innovation

About the role

We are seeking a Food Technologist to lead product development and innovation initiatives focused on healthy snacks, nutritious beverages, and functional foods. The role involves turning emerging food trends into market‑ready products while ensuring quality, safety, and regulatory compliance.

Key responsibilities

• Develop new concepts for healthy snacks, beverages, and functional food products.
• Formulate and optimise products for taste, nutrition, texture, quality, and shelf life.
• Conduct product trials, recipe development, sensory evaluation, and product standardisation.
• Research emerging ingredients, technologies, consumer trends, and healthy food innovations.
• Maintain product specifications, formulations, recipes, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with Production, Quality, Procurement and other teams to ensure successful development and scale‑up.
• Evaluate raw materials for suitability, quality, functionality and cost.
• Support packaging selection, product costing, labeling and preparation for commercial launch.
• Conduct shelf‑life studies and support quality and stability testing.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, HACCP, quality and regulatory requirements.
• Troubleshoot formulation and production issues and recommend improvements.
• Assist transition of successfully developed products from R&D to large‑scale production.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Food Technology, Food Science or a related field.
• Strong professional experience in food product development, R&D or food technology.
• Practical experience developing and testing new food products.
• Experience with healthy snacks, beverages, functional foods or nutrition‑focused products preferred.
• Good knowledge of food safety, HACCP, quality standards and product development procedures.
• Understanding of food ingredients, formulation, sensory evaluation and shelf‑life considerations.
• Analytical, research and problem‑solving skills.
• Effective communication and cross‑functional collaboration abilities.

Required skills