Department: Business Development / Product and Process Development Center
Reporting Relationship:
Report to:
Business Development Manager - Administratively and Product and Process Development Manager (PPDM) - Functionally
Subordinate: None
Job Responsibility:
The Product and Formulation Specialist provides technical services for new product development activities. He/She is responsible in product formulations / BOM and product characterization.
Duties will include and not be limited to:
• Conduct product development work from bench top prototypes thru scaling-up products and processes for commercialization in support of DenEast and stakeholders' objectives.
• Technical lead responsible for product development and product optimization, working in collaboration with
project managers & the cross functional teams from concept thru commercialization of products, ensuring excellent communication.
• Possess strong product development skills in ingredient functionality, material selection and formulation to understand effects on finished product performance.
• Lead multiple key projects, ensuring they meet project scope, launch time and flawless execution.
• Develop ingredient and formulation trial plans.
• Conduct trials, data collection and interpret results to drive program/project and technical knowledge forward, develop robust action plans, risk assessment and contingency planning.
• Partner internally and externally to source ingredients and to leverage vendor expertise in ingredient functionality.
• Implement and advance new research and development procedures & techniques.
• Accurately maintain laboratory notebook and generate all required product documentation, including product specifications, formulation sheets, and SOPs.
• Conduct market research for the assigned product portfolios.