Food Technologist – Product Development & Innovation

About the role

We are seeking a Food Technologist to lead the creation of healthy snacks, nutritious beverages, and functional food products. You will work closely with cross‑functional teams to turn innovative concepts into market‑ready offerings while ensuring quality, safety, and regulatory compliance.

Key responsibilities

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

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Technology, Food Science or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in food product development, R&D or food technology.
• Hands‑on experience creating and testing new food products, preferably in healthy snacks, beverages or functional foods.
• Strong knowledge of food safety, HACCP, quality standards and product development procedures.
• Excellent analytical, research and problem‑solving abilities.
• Effective communication and ability to collaborate across functions.

Required skills

• Food safety
• HACCP
• Product formulation
• Sensory evaluation
• Shelf‑life testing