Bakery R&D Specialist

About the role

Take charge of the end-to-end 0-to-1 R&D and implementation of new bakery products including breads, cakes, desserts and puff pastries. Conduct product positioning, selling-point extraction, specification definition, cost accounting and pricing. Follow through sampling, formulation finalization, pilot test, mass production, launch promotion and full-lifecycle optimization of new products.

Key responsibilities

• Develop bakery product formulas, adjust flavors and optimize textures

• Solve core technical challenges including dough fermentation, baking parameter tuning, filling formulation, shelf-life maintenance and anti-staling performance

• Manage multiple concurrent projects covering new-product R&D, existing-product iteration and process upgrading

• Establish detailed project schedules covering R&D, sampling, trial production and go-live

• Coordinate cross-functional resources among R&D, production, quality control, procurement and operation teams

• Align R&D progress, process standards and production requirements to ensure on-time project delivery

About you

• Minimum 3 years of R&D or product-development experience in the bakery-food industry, with proven successful cases of 0-to-1 new bakery product development, process finalization, factory-scale mass-production and commercial launch

• Proficient in production processes, formulation principles, baking parameters and raw-material properties of various bakery products

• Solid professional expertise in bakery R&D with proven capability to independently perform flavor tuning and formulation adjustment

• Competent in project management and cross-department collaboration, capable of advancing multiple R&D projects simultaneously and controlling project milestones

• Prior experience with chain bakery brands is preferred