Role & responsibilities Meeting Management: Schedule and coordinate various meetings, including agency meetings, vendor meetings, both domestic and overseas. Organize internal department meetings and corporate gatherings, ensuring timely communication and logistical arrangements. Prepare meeting agendas, collate relevant documents, and distribute them to participants in advance. Ensure the smooth execution of meetings and provide necessary support during the proceedings. Task Tracking and Follow-up: Collaborate with teams and team leaders to track assigned tasks and projects. Consistently remind and follow up with teams to ensure deadlines are met. Maintain a comprehensive task tracking system and provide regular status updates to the ED. Attention to Detail and Communication: Execute tasks with meticulous attention to detail, striving for excellence in every endeavor. Delegate tasks efficiently, when necessary, to achieve organizational objectives. Communicate effectively with various departments, fostering a collaborative work environment. Organizational Initiatives: Manage logistics and coordination to ensure the smooth execution of these initiatives. Provide necessary support to participants and stakeholders throughout the process. Monitoring Exhibitions & Sponsorship Activities: Monitor exhibitions and sponsorship activities closely, providing constructive feedback to respective departments. Collaborate with relevant teams to ensure successful event planning and execution. Market Insights and Reporting: Utilize opportunities to conduct market visits, gaining real-time updates on Pune market trends. Engage in research on sales, competition products, and other relevant data. Compile and present well-structured reports on various subjects as instructed by the ED.
Role & responsibilities PLANNING: Interact with marketing, sales and exports departments to identify new products to meet consumer/customer requirements and competition. Keep abreast of latest developments in relevant food technology in Domestic and international market. Review available literature on product and process modification and interact with production department to improve products and processes while maintaining / reducing costs. Visit to outsourced products location and review the required changes accordingly. Carry out sensory evaluation of manufactured products as scheduled. OPERATION: Periodic monitor product yields/wastages. HACCP review. Customer complaint & root cause analysis Auditing product processes as per actual and make changes/ improvement wherever applicable. Periodic stock inspection, process inspection and process validation. Evaluate new products along with product managers and make changes in recipe, if necessary. Review and freeze new and modified recipes and processes after satisfactory trial run and test marketing and ensure documentation of recipes and production processes. Ensure interaction with production department to conduct trial runs for new/modified products /processes as scheduled and modify recipes/production processes where necessary. Ensure periodical inspection of stored products to prevent spoilage, identify methods for salvaging spoilt products, if any and modify recipes/processes to prevent recurrence of problem. Interact with purchase department for prices of raw materials and identify substitute material to reduce cost of final product. Identification & Selection of processes/process equipment. TRAINING: Provide shop floor, Class room trainings to factories at required levels. Provide Product insights/ categories to marketing / sales dept whenever required To get trained on various regulatory, Quality system and Technical as and when required Preferred candidate profile Hands-on experience in product development, especially in the Pickle category. Strong documentation, sensory evaluation and process audit skills. Familiarity with HACCP, FSSAI, and international food safety standards.