R&D Coordinator – Bakery & Beverage

Workplace: Charoen Krung, Bangkok
Job Function: R&D

Industry: Food Manufacturing

We are seeking an R&D Technical Coordinator (Bakery & Beverage) to support product trials, production implementation, and cross-functional coordination across manufacturing and quality teams. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career food professional looking to grow within a dynamic and innovative food manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate product trials, pilot runs, and mass production activities to ensure successful product implementation.
• Work closely with Procurement, Planning, Production, QA, and QC teams to ensure raw material availability and production readiness.
• Monitor production processes and support troubleshooting during product scale-up and commercialization.
• Assist in maintaining product specifications, technical documents, production records, and related quality documentation.
• Support quality assurance and quality control activities to ensure products meet company and customer standards.
• Coordinate product testing, sample preparation, and evaluation of product performance, quality, and consistency.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, GMP, HACCP, and quality management requirements.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to product quality, manufacturing efficiency, and process optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Engineering, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in food manufacturing, R&D, technical services, QA/QC, or production support.
• Experience in bakery, beverage, patisserie, ingredients, or food manufacturing environments is preferred.
• Understanding of food safety and quality systems such as GMP, HACCP, ISO 22000, or equivalent.
• Experience coordinating with production, procurement, planning, and quality teams is an advantage.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Good communication and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.

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Key Responsibilities

Category Strategy and Sourcing Planning (Dairy Products)

• Market and industry analysis, supplier research and review, category and supplier segmentation, sourcing events, analysis, negotiations, contracting and implementation.
• Translate consumer segment data & insights into specific category assortment, merchandising, advertising/promotions, and pricing strategies. 
  
  

Sales & Profit & Other income management

• Monitor by daily budget. Performance Review MTD, YTD by store by category by customer
• Yearly budgeting (Sales, margin, other income) by buyer by customer / Category by customer

Supplier management

• Create a long-term partnership with key suppliers. Work with suppliers to implement cost improvement programs.
• Manage supplier relationships and performance. Establish reporting of purchasing activities (hot topics, achievements, risks & opportunities).

Assortment Management and Pricing Management

• Develop proposals for stocking strategies for price optimization
• Stock management: Maintains assigned SKU maintenance in system to ensure product availability
• Price Negotiation: Price Speed Change / Price Policy & Price Structure / Improve Cost of Goods: Improve Negotiation / Price Setting / New item Negotiate

Promotion management

• Determine product offerings and promotional plans for assigned categories to achieve operating results
• Conducts post-promotional reviews and analysis to determine if promotional requirements were met and if there were problem areas, develops solutions.

Qualifications

• Master or bachelor’s in business administration, Science, Marketing or a technical / any related filed. MBA preferred.
• A Bachelor’s degree or culinary degree is preferable.
• 10+ years professional experience in retail food service management, retail operations, and/or consumer product goods, preferred.
• 5 - 7 years strategic sourcing experience preferred.
• Department level supervisory/managerial experience of direct and indirect reports.
• Demonstrated understanding food safety principles and operational requirements.
•  Retail or FMCG business, Wholesales industry knowledge and experience.
• Be able to deal with top manufacturers and retailers.
• Demonstrated ability to develop market expertise and credibility in the Retail industry and/or consumer product segment, including customers, suppliers, products, applications, technology, pricing, value, industry or market problems and opportunities.
• Negotiation skills: Must possess ability to establish strong working relationships and persuade/influence others; ability to negotiate and defend pricing, contracts, and agreements with suppliers 

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