Senior R&D Executive

About The Role...

Play country deployment RD function and role as key contact window in term of below activities:

• Roll-out new launch products;
• Support local technical activities to meet local regulation and consumer/customer needs including promotion pack re-design, local communication claims, product benchmarking and 3P/4P CM management etc;
• Monitor local market movement and analyse local competitor product insights for core of core products and other potential business competition;
• Support local product and package saving projects under the fundamental growth pillar;
• Secure and investigate product quality ad-hoc cases in local market and initiate the root cause if have;
• Cooperate with HK MKT chef-men-ship team to leverage all projects and activities (incl. ad-hoc activities) movement for Unilever food solutions & retail;
• Develop relationships and communicate with key business counterpart, including internal and external. 

Develop nutrition RD North Asia roles:

• Generate specification for formulation / package components to meet local regulation and consumer needs;
• Share local insights and (or) business voice to RDC timely if have;
• Build relationship with each function in RDC as development plan;
• Execute global RD guideline / principles OTIF.

And The Person...

• Degree or above in Food and Nutritional Science or related discipline;
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in the food industrial technical working experience;
• Ability multi-tasking and work under pressure, able to work independently with minimal supervision;
• HK local regulation awareness and external RA communication ability;
• Basic awareness of savory & dressing in term of formulation and packaging including; sensory assessment, RM/PM materials, conversion, quality, decoration and secondary packaging;
• Good PC skills with MS office;
• Effective verbal & written communication skills in English, Putonghua and Cantonese;
• Candidate with less experience may be considered as R&D Executive.

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