Synapse Partners is a specialist venture capital firm that invests exclusively in early-stage startups developing horizontal or vertical enterprise applications that exploit big data through the use of AI to solve strategic industry problems. We identify strategic problems by becoming trusted partners to global corporations in the automotive, transportation, telco, and financial services industries and helping them achieve their innovation goals. We select the best startups to invest by continuously analyzing proprietary databases, and exploiting our networks of advisors, entrepreneurs, and fellow venture investors. We utilize our deep knowledge of big data and AI, entrepreneurial and venture experience, and corporate relations to help our portfolio companies scale and ultimately exit successfully.
Mumbai
INR 12.0 - 17.0 Lacs P.A.
Work from Office
Full Time
- Structure the R&D and CTS teams based on business needs to foster agility. - Recruit, onboard, train, and develop the team while planning for succession. - Align R&D vision and objectives with group and country strategies. - Manage the innovation pipeline aligned with customer needs, market trends, and regulatory requirements. - Promote strategic innovations, translating them for local markets, and ensure thorough training (R&D, CTS, marketing, sales). - Drive customer projects, ensuring compliance with the Go-no-Go process and supporting internal/external training sessions. - Build internal and external competencies to identify opportunities for innovation. - Ensure confidentiality and adherence to IP protection while driving digital adoption. - Support production (ingredient approval, process improvement, troubleshooting) and quality audits. - Collaborate with purchase and operations to reduce product costs and optimize portfolios. - Actively contribute to the management team, fostering trust and collaboration for quicker project implementation. - Build strong networks with global and local stakeholders to share best practices and identify opportunities.
Mumbai
INR 22.5 - 27.5 Lacs P.A.
Work from Office
Full Time
The R&D Manager will lead and develop the R&D and Customer Technical Support (= CTS) team and activity. He/ she will represent R&D in the management team and will translate the business strategy into a local R&D and Business Development strategy. Thanks to a good customer understanding and relationships, he/ she will create unique, purpose-driven solutions for the local market. He / she will closely collaborate with operations, to assure smooth production, quality, supply and regulatory compliance. Key Accountabilities A) R&D Management - Define the right R&D and CTS organization, adapted to the business needs; create agility by optimizing resources when needed. - Assure a synergistic collaboration between the R&D and CTS teams resulting in a better output and a shorter time to market. - Management of the R&D team: recruit talented people, assure good onboarding and continuous training, development, and succession. - Manage the R&D department through vision and objectives in line with the strategy of the Group and the country. B) Innovation, customer projects and Technical Support Editor - Manage the innovation pipeline, in line with the Group strategy and guidelines (H&WB, sustainability, focus channels, key customers) and with current and future customer needs. - Always assure compliance to local regulations. - Boost, promote and enable the development and implementation of strategic and international innovation products and services; make use of the project process tools; assure a good translation to local market needs; assure training for R&D, CTS, MKT, sales. - Be customer centric by driving customer projects: assure R&D and Application Specialists (= AS) to spend resp 30% and 50% of their time with customers, make use of the Go-no Go process; assure product development in line with the customer request and our capabilities; organize and support training sessions for customers. - Organize internal product trainings for the business development and operation teams. - Organize competence building projects (internally and/or with external partners) and translate this in new business development and innovation opportunities. - Ensure confidentiality and respect Group rules on IP protection in all activities. - Assure adoption of digital tools and automation processes. - Give guidance to the CTS Manager in developing an innovative and creative CTS team which is customer oriented. C) Support improvement of Profitability and Support Operations - Provide support to operations (production, QC, QA) for the implementation of new ingredients and products on our lines, during the startup of new lines, for process improvement projects, for non-conformities and customer complaints, for approval of 2 nd suppliers. - Take a pro-active approach to reduce the cost of our products, in collaboration with purchase and operations; participate to portfolio optimization projects on raw materials and finished goods. - Assure R&D support during external quality audits; assure a perfect and traceable documentation of all relevant R&D activities. D) Internal and external stakeholder management - Be an active member of the management team and assure good implementation of the projects in the local organization. - Contribute to a trustful collaboration, inspire the teams with new products, services, concepts and ideas, and assure a close collaboration that results in a smooth implementation and a shorter time to market. - Create a strong internal network with stakeholders from HQ, the region and other countries, in the effort to share best practices, learn, improve and create new solutions to meet customers challenges. - Create a strong external network with key customers, suppliers, local authorities, research institutes and sectorial associations, to accelerate the detection of future challenges and opportunities, and accelerate the development of according to solutions. Competences, Knowledge & Personal Qualities - Strong R&D expertise, scientific curiosity, and digital savviness. - Inspiring team leader, attracting and developing a diverse team of talents. - Strong Customer orientation and commercial drive (driving projects into sales);. - Capable of translating a business strategy into an R&D strategy. - Good networker within/out of the organization. - Able to turn needs into unique, purpose-driven solutions for customers. - Strong planning with structured approach and project management skills. - Self-driven and dynamic with an international mind-set. - Ambitious and determined to achieve results and be part of a winning team. Professional Experience & Qualifications - Academic background: Masters degree in food science. - Minimum 5 years experience in applied R&D from international food industry. - Having 3 years experience in leading the R&D activity and team from the international food industry. - R&D experience from bakery, patisserie or chocolate industry is a must. - Knowledge in food regulations. - Languages: Fluent in English. - Travel: expected to travel frequently in the region and occasionally internationally. - Spend 30% of the time with customers.
Bengaluru
INR 20.0 - 25.0 Lacs P.A.
Work from Office
Full Time
JOB SUMMARY: QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE: - 16 to 18 years of experience of general corporate work in-house (preferred) or at a law firm. - Some experience (or working knowledge at a minimum) of intellectual perty and labour law. - Graduate with an excellent academic record, and qualified as a lawyer in India. - Should have a strategic perspective & go getter who has worked himself/herself rather than working with consultants. - Preferably worked in FMCG or manufacturing industry. KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: - Handling the broad spectrum of day-to-day legal affairs of the business. - Advising the CFO and management team on a wide variety of legal issues, including legal metrology litigation, contracts, marketing and food law, franchising, labour, as well as regulatory compliance in multiple areas, such as competition and trade regulation, duct liability, consumer privacy, intellectual perty, anti-corruption (FCPA). - viding advisory and legal services to the Manufacturing and Supply Chain group specifically infrastructure, leasing, compliance with labour and workplace legislation, contracts, IP issues, and STPI rules. - Participate in discussions with other departmental heads and arrive at a decision on the continued maintenance / new registration of Trademarks both in India and abroad in order to create, tect and develop the intellectual perty of BIL. - Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, including manufacturing, marketing, supply and distribution agreements. - Developing and coordinating litigation strategies and coordinating centrally all litigation across the country. - Coordinating regulatory compliance, including monitoring legislation and implications of new business initiatives that group may pursue in India and Middle East. - Training current businesses on compliance initiatives and legal developments. - As the opportunities are developed, training and managing other lawyers hired to do legal work within these groups. DESIRED COMPETENCIES: - Generalist lawyer, with a flexible apach to work and a strong sense of personal responsibility and bias for action. - Excellent legal skills with an ability to business solutions to legal blems. - Excellent grounding in contract and commercial matters. - Prior knowledge of food law, Food Safety Act Factories and Labour Act, Agri Commodity Act Essential Commodities/ Mandi Samitis. - Intellectual perty law and labour law are preferred, although not essential. - In all cases must be willing to learn. - Creativity and willingness to embrace change and work in multi-functional teams, and build trusting relationships at all levels of local management and corporate and legal groups. - Well organized and able to manage and prioritize changing workload and meet deadlines. - Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with a demonstrated ability to communicate to a wide variety of business personnel, including external lawyers. Good exposure on the following agreements: - Joint Ventures / Merger /Acquisitions, Lease. - Buy sale of perty ESOP share purchase schemes. - cess contracts.
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