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Application Manager – Bakery and Sweet Goods (Flavours)
Givaudan, the flavour and fragrance company, is hiring an Application Manager for bakery and sweet goods at its Mumbai application centre. The manager takes flavour applications from concept and tabletop prototypes to commercial scale-up for biscuits, cakes, confectionery and similar products, and advises sales, marketing, flavourists and customers.
- Country
- India
- Experience
- 10–12 years
- Salary / stipend
- Pay not disclosed
- Job type
- Full-time
- Work mode
- On-site
- Function
- R&D / product development
Who can apply
Bachelor's degree in engineering or technology in a science field
Review the original notice to confirm the requirements. Related degrees are not automatically equivalent; the recruiting organisation decides eligibility.
What you’ll do
- Run brief-related work: select, evaluate and apply flavours in bakery and sweet-goods applications
- Act as the technical expert for marketing, sales, flavour creation and customers on sweet-goods applications
- Lead flavour evaluations for customer briefs, research projects and portfolio reviews
- Choose the best flavours for each project against customer, regulatory, legal and cost requirements and suggest improvements
- Build and keep trusted relationships with a small set of customers
- Maintain flavour performance data by evaluating flavours in finished products and recording profiles
- Recommend suitable flavour delivery systems and technologies for customer projects
- Coach, train and motivate technicians and technologists
- Keep the application lab safe, clean and organised in line with EH&S policy
What the employer asks for
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or technology in a related science field
- 10–12 years in bakery and confectionery within FMCG, new product development or food/flavour manufacturing
- Strong technical knowledge of cookies, cakes, biscuits, crackers, rusk, candy, toffee, jelly and chewing gum: ingredients, formulation, processing and manufacturing
- Hands-on customer work in plants: technical discussions, troubleshooting, plant visits and project execution
- Proven record of leading product development projects from concept to commercialisation
- Good understanding of raw materials, ingredient functionality, storage, distribution and shelf stability
- Working knowledge of how flavours perform in food systems
- Exposure to healthcare and beverage applications is an advantage
- Experience leading or supervising technicians and technologists
Pay, benefits and perks
- Attractive package with benefits
- Learning and development opportunities
- Comprehensive healthcare and retirement plan
About the employer
Givaudan is a Swiss-headquartered global leader in flavours and fragrances with more than 17,000 employees, creating taste, scent and wellbeing solutions for food, beverage and consumer brands.
How to apply
Read the full notice and follow the instructions on the original application page.
Skills for this role
What employers ask for in R&D / New Product Development roles. named in this notice
- Bakery and confectionery formulation
- Flavour application and evaluation
- Product scale-up and commercialisation
- Ingredient functionality
- Shelf-life and stability
- Project management
- Customer technical support
- New Product Development
- Product Development
- Formulation
- NPD
- R&D
- Reformulation
- Food Scientist
- Sensory evaluation
- Shelf-life study
Pay on similar vacancies
From 12 Industry vacancies on FSD in the same role family that publish pay. Monthly, before deductions.
Prepare for the interview
Questions commonly asked for R&D / New Product Development roles. Practise answers with an example and a number.
- Take us through the stage-gate process you would follow for a new product, from brief to launch.
- How do you design a shelf-life study, and which parameters would you track for a bakery or snack product?
- How would you reduce sugar or sodium in a product without losing consumer acceptance?
- Which sensory tests would you use to compare a reformulation against the current product, and why?
- How do you check that a new ingredient is permitted and at what level under FSSAI regulations?
- Tell us about a formulation problem you solved in the lab or pilot plant.
Before you apply
- Read the original notice end to endDates, eligibility and the application route are decided by the employer, not by FSD.
- Tailor your resume to this vacancyMatch the keywords in the requirements. Resume Studio shows what is missing.
- Write a short cover noteTwo or three lines on your most relevant plant, lab or project result, with a number.
- Be ready to talk numbersCurrent CTC, expected CTC and notice period are usually asked in the first call.
Source & editorial check
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Original posting: 2026-11-06
Checked 2026-11-07 · Updated 2026-11-06
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