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Manager – Bakery Applications & Technical Services
Corbion, a food-ingredients company focused on preservation, is hiring a Manager for bakery applications and technical services in Navi Mumbai. The manager solves customer formulation problems with Corbion ingredients, leads plant trials and will set up and run the company's new application laboratory.
- Country
- India
- Experience
- 8–10 years
- Salary / stipend
- Pay not disclosed
- Apply by
- 25 Nov 2026
- Job type
- Full-time
- Work mode
- On-site
- Function
- R&D / product development
Who can apply
Bachelor's in Food Technology, Food Science, Biotechnology or a related food-science discipline (master's preferred)
Review the original notice to confirm the requirements. Related degrees are not automatically equivalent; the recruiting organisation decides eligibility.
What you’ll do
- Build technical partnerships with customers, distributors and key accounts and understand their product and process challenges
- Work with customer R&D teams to turn their needs into ingredient solutions
- Develop applications with preservation systems, vinegar-based solutions, cultured ingredients, organic acids, emulsifiers and functional blends
- Lead formulation work in bakery (main focus), confectionery, sauces and dressings, meat, poultry and seafood
- Work on shelf-life extension, food safety, clean label, texture, yield and cost-in-use
- Run application trials and customer plant trials from lab to commercialisation
- Help establish and then lead the new Navi Mumbai application laboratory, its budgets, equipment and protocols
- Deliver technical presentations, workshops and training and support customer audits
- Partner with sales and marketing on the commercial pipeline and monitor market and regulatory trends
What the employer asks for
- Bachelor's in Food Technology, Food Science, Biotechnology or a closely related discipline (master's preferred)
- 8 to 10 years in food ingredients, food manufacturing or specialty ingredients
- Strong customer-facing technical support experience
- Deep bakery application expertise plus at least one of confectionery, sauces/dressings, meat, poultry or seafood
- Experience with lab and plant trials, formulation optimisation and scale-up
- Knowledge of food preservation, clean-label development, food safety and microbiology basics
- Strong project leadership and communication skills
- Willing to work on site in Navi Mumbai and travel 30 to 40%
About the employer
Corbion is a Dutch food-ingredients and biochemicals company known for lactic acid, preservation systems and bakery ingredients.
How to apply
Read the full notice and follow the instructions on the original application page.
Foundit listing open until 25 Nov 2026.
Skills for this role
What employers ask for in R&D / New Product Development roles. named in this notice
- Bakery applications
- Clean-label reformulation
- Food preservation
- Organic acids and emulsifiers
- Plant trials and scale-up
- Application laboratory management
- R&D
- Formulation
- New Product Development
- NPD
- Product Development
- Reformulation
- Food Scientist
- Sensory evaluation
- Shelf-life study
- Accelerated shelf life
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
On-site in Navi Mumbai with 30-40% travel. Apply through Foundit.
Original posting: 2026-10-27
Checked 2026-11-06 · Updated 2026-11-06
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