Manager- Sweetener

Job Title: Manager - Sweetener

Job Location: Chennai

Years of Experience: 10+ years

Roles and Responsibilities:

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• Develop new sweetener products and blends (natural, plant-based, functional) and improve existing formulations.
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• Create application-ready solutions for beverages, bakery, confectionery, and nutraceuticals ensuring sensory and performance parity with sugar.
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• Manage end-to-end scale-up from lab to plant while ensuring regulatory, quality, and process compliance.
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• Collaborate with suppliers to explore new sweetening technologies, functional ingredients, and innovation opportunities.
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• Support B2B and institutional teams with customized sweetener systems, application trials, and cost-optimization projects.
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• Lead development of consumer retail products (powders, tablets, liquids, sachets) with strong sensory, stability, and shelf-life performance.
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• Partner with marketing for claims, sensory validation, consumer insights, and product communication.
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• Drive cross-functional alignment with Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, and Marketing for smooth product launches.
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• Track global sweetener trends, identify white spaces for innovation, IP creation, and sustainable sourcing.
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• Maintain digital documentation and contribute to long-term sweetener strategy for the organization s food innovation roadmap.
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