IT Sales Executive

About Company

Our client is one of the strongest Consumer brands in the Bakery category, having a 25000 sq ft state-of-the-art centralized manufacturing facility with European equipment near Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The founding team consists of a ‘Master Baker’ from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, one of the finest culinary institutes in the world and an IIM-A alumni with a McKinsey background.

Job Description:

1. Product Development:

- Includes new product development, product improvement, process improvement and optimization.

- Formulate bakery recipes for products such as cakes, cookies and dough in general that will deliver optimal flavor systems which comply with cost, product concept design, and regulatory and sensory requirements. 

- Create recipes that are consistent with the company philosophy of “honest dough” that optimize the taste experience and achieve preference in testing with target consumers

- Develop and implements the technical plans for multiple food development projects simultaneously

- Project work includes all phases of New Product Development from initial prototype development, to pilot plant scale, to full-scale commercialization.

- Design and executes experiments, analyze and interprets data to make sound technical recommendations for specific projects

- Prepare prototype food products using the research lab, pilot lab, manufacturing facilities and equipment as required.

- Provide solutions to a wide range of challenges by applying technical knowledge and experience

- Collaboration with cross-functional teams and technical peers, throughout the development of new products and processes

- Develop and implements cost savings ideas through formula and process optimization.

- Projects like improving certain product attributes like nutritional value, shelf- life etc

- Training the workforce on the new products and processes, making product barcode labels and supervising the production of the pilot batch.

1. Quality Assurance:

- Includes all areas and processes of the plant like production, packaging, raw material inspection etc.

- Ensuring regulatory compliance

- Conducting regular internal audits

1. Raw Material Quality Control:

- Supervision of all raw material quality checks and inspections including food ingredients, water, packaging material, cleaning supplies etc.

- Ensuring proper documentation is maintained

1. Finished Product Testing:

- Sending products for testing including nutritional information, a shelf- life, quality etc. and documenting the same

- Suggesting any health/nutritional claims or taking corrective action (if required) based on the tests

1. Miscellaneous:

- Other miscellaneous tasks like creating content for product packaging, description etc.

- Coordination of external visits, audits, training, workshops etc.

Qualification, Experience, and Skills required:

•  2- 4 years experience in a food manufacturing environment and QC Lab
• B.Sc. or equivalent degree in Food discipline.
• Previous Project Management experience.
• Strong leader with good interpersonal and communications skills with the ability to communicate across departments/suppliers and external customers.
• Strong organizational, and project management skills to assist with critical path deadlines and project priorities.
• Working knowledge of the factory and raw materials currently used on site.
• Can effectively time manage -  to structure the team's day efficiently with regards to differing priorities/workloads as well as working to tight deadlines.
• Hardworking and passionate with an eye for detail.
• Ability to problem solve

Job Description:

Proven experience as a Java Developer with a strong understanding of Java and its ecosystems.

Proficient in Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data).

Experience with web application development using technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and ORM frameworks (e.g., Hibernate).

Familiarity with build tools such as Maven or Gradle.

Understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.

Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

Experience with microservices architecture.

Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Candidate should also have some App development experience in cloud infra. Like familiarity with Docker, Helm Charts, Kubernetes or AWS/Azure k8s infra.

Candidate should have some App development experience in at least one No-SQL Database also (like MongoDB or Cassandra or Redis) apart from RDBMS.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Writing semantic, modern, and accessible HTML mark-up.
• ReactJS (v17),Type Script, HTML, CSS
• Organizing and writing modular, well-structured CSS.
• Mastery of turning complex mock-ups into performant components/pages.
• Strong familiarity with Vanilla JS and up to date with the latest TypeScript features.
• Experience with writing scalable and performant code for a high-traffic website.
• Experience and/or knowledge of both Object Oriented Programming and Functional Programming principles.
• Willingness and desire to learn new and legacy frameworks.
• CSS pre-processing via SCSS.
• Experience with JS frameworks such as React, Redux, Backbone, or Marionette.
• Experience with Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery.