NPD Executive

***Summary:

This position is required to create new recipes of vegetables, meat, seafood products with different processing method, mainly canning. Senior NPD executive will need to have a good knowledge of food and food processing, have a good sense of tasting and understand quality of different material sources. Ongoing self-research is expected to understand different food culture, recipes and eating habits of consumers.



***Job description:

- Lead an NPD team along with NPD Manager to manage all projects.

- Research and develop new products based on Requests from Management.

- Finding suitable food material sources that can be used in our products.

- Evaluate new products, examine shelf life, mass production matters.

- Prepare product self-declaration, process flows and product standards to ensure products will be produced same quality as approved samples.

- Be able to calculate product cost, understand yield and loss in processing.

- Conduct production trials and supervise first production runs of new products, support technical and quality issues.

- Strictly follow project schedule to make sure each stage is completed in a time manner.

- Good in communication, be able to explain technical matters, express opinion, ideas.

- Open minded to feedbacks, new concepts, improve recipes when being requested.