Department Manager - Retail Product Development (Bakery)
atCP Axtra PCL (Lotus's)- Perform market trends, consumer preferences, and competitor products in the bakery and food industry to identify opportunities for product differentiation and innovation,
- Lead the development of new bakery and food products, considering taste, texture, nutritional value, and market trends to meet commercial requirement.
- Design and evaluate materials, processes and machine & Equipment for instore production.
- Formulate and optimize recipes for bakery and food products meet food law, food regulation (food ingredient, food additive) and meet target cost from commercial.
- Identify and evaluate new and existing ingredients for their applicability in bakery and food products and collaborate with suppliers to source high-quality/new trend of ingredients in development process and align with the company's standards.
- Conduct sensory evaluations to ensure the products meet quality standards and customer expectations.
- Present food trend/prototype to commercial for new product kick off, prepare product for commercial shooting and present to management.
- Create food cost calculation base on raw material costs to ensure profitable product.
- Crate BOM for buyer final price of product and SC ordering raw material
- Create recipe card and training for operation teams to scale up recipes for mass production
- Owner for tracking critical path of development process and follow up relevant department to meet target launch plan.
Experience required
- any or no experience
Career level
- Senior Level
Salary
- Negotiable
Job function
- Retail
- Management
Job type
- Full-time
Company overview
Lotus's operates in Thailand as an omni-channel retailer. It sets out to bring shoppers well-made products at reasonable prices, while contributing positively to customers, colleagues and communities. Customers are reached through over 2,000 stores across Thailand and t ...
Why join us: “At Lotus's, we are looking for people who are the change-agent with a passion to grow in both work and life. People who have the ability to think in an agile way and make everyday as a history to leave their own legacy in every part of business.” Lotus's People are: People wh ...

