R&D Chef Junior Manager (Cake, Pastry and Bakery)

About the role

Develop scratch recipe lab-scale for new category / new product platform, both for future factory scale and F&B/store application. Create pre-development concepts for major product rejuvenation, including significant changes to decoration, presentation, format, filling, topping, texture, or eating experience. Develop future NPD concepts as technical asset / recipe bank before formal commercial brief. Conduct culinary exploration of trends, competitors, new ingredients, new techniques, and new formats relevant to the business.

Key responsibilities

• Create multiple initial concept options and select concepts with the best combination of consumer appeal, differentiation, technical feasibility, and commercial potential

• Submit initial formula, process concept, benchmark, product intent, critical attributes, and key technical learning to R&D for further development

• Collaborate with R&D Staff Future Plan for recipe validation, standardization, documentation, and SOP creation

• Support early-stage evaluation of scale-up possibilities, store execution, equipment needs, and operational complexity

• Maintain culinary concept library / recipe bank for use in future briefs and innovation pipeline

• Provide technical culinary input for ideas requiring major renovation or breakthrough concepts

About you

• Background in Culinary Arts, Pastry, Bakery, or Food Product Development

• Strong experience in product creation, not just kitchen operation, minimum 7 years

• Able to create recipes from scratch and understand ingredient-function-process relationship

• Strong in sensory, presentation, texture, flavor, decoration, and product differentiation

• Understanding of basic manufacturability / scalability is an added value

• Creative, quick at making prototypes, curious about trends and competitors

• Able to work in a structured manner with R&D for recipe standardization and handover