R&D Executive/Assistant Manager

Job Description

Olam Food Ingredients (ofi) is a global leader offering naturally good food & beverage ingredients and solutions. ofi commenced operations in Vietnam in 1997, setting up its representative office. Since then, we have established an extensive presence across different parts of Vietnam, including our head office in Ho Chi Minh City and regional offices in Binh Dinh, Long An, Dong Nai, Phu Yen, Lamdong and Gia Lai Provinces.

ofi Vietnam is currently the largest exporter of Cashews, Pepper & Instant Coffee in Vietnam, investing in the state-of-the-art instant coffee facility and running 7 large factories with 7,500 employees across Central & South Vietnam. Our operations have an interface with a farmer network of 2 million farmers. We are also amongst the largest exporter of Green Coffee in Vietnam.

We have established sustainability programmers for black pepper, coffee & cashew. We are excited about our future prospects in Vietnam as the country has huge potential in agriculture.

Job overview

We are seeking for an R&D Executive/Assistant Manager who is responsible for the innovation activities in ofi Spices Vietnam, including product formulation, process, and packaging development and for the deployment of any spices’ innovation SOP, SOP from ofi globally.

Key responsibilities

• Manage R&D Tropical Spices Department activities, guide R&D staff to analyse customer specification, customer sample, customer request, create product recipe and specification, send sample and specification to customer, record information, arrange supplier’s sample, customer’s sample, Olam’s sample in orderly manner.
• Report the progress of R&D Tropical Spices to make sure samples sent/submitted timely, met customer’s requirements, transfer recipe/specification/technical requirements to other relevant departments, sharing new development information to team (legal, technical know-how, special requirements…)
• Other tasks required to support IQ team, Procurement team, Sales team, Planning, Production & General Manager.

Job Requirement

- English: Advance

- Working experiences: >3 years in Food company with product like Spices, Chili, Noodle, Milk Powder.

Our Purpose is to “be the change for good food and a healthy future”. At ofi, we celebrate our diversity. ofi provides equality of opportunity for all persons with respect to hiring without discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. All employment decisions will be based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.