Café Coffee Day's menu consists of different cuisines . The job responsibility of this role is to keep a track of global and local food trends, create new food products and implement best practises in the industry.

Responsibilities

• New Product Development: Create new food products based on global trends
• Competition Review: Competitor tracking for products, best practises
• Product library: Trials and recipe documentation of food
• Product Costing: Costing and margin analysis of new products
• SOP and Training Content: Content creation for training of new products
• Training: Train the trainer programmes and staff training for new products
• Vendor Management: Work with external vendors and suppliers to source ingredients-breads, desserts, gravies, sauces , fillings , seasonings for new product development
• Cost Management: Monitor and manage product costs. Continuous work on improving product costs through alternate ingredients and new vendors
• Process enhancement: Identify opportunities of process and equipment improvement and enhancement in the system
• Quality Control: Work closely with the QA team for product related closures-Product Specifications, SOP's, Nutritional Information, Allergens
• Overall, the new product development manager/asst manager plays a crucial role in new product development, competitor review and tracking global trends, cost management, vendor management and process enhancement

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Hotel Management
• 6-15 years experience in Hotel / QSR innovations
• Strong verbal or written communication skills
• Hot kitchen with well versed with cuisines of continental , American , Oriental , Indian
• Technical knowledge of frozen foods, science of cooking
• Open to travel PAN India