Food Science Job At Isha LIFE
Looking for a rewarding Food Science Job that blends innovation, health, and real-world impact? This exciting role at Isha LIFE offers a unique opportunity for life science graduates to step into a dynamic Research And Development Specialist position. If you’re passionate about food innovation, clean-label products, and transforming ideas into market-ready solutions, this opportunity in Coimbatore could be your perfect career move.
About Isha LIFE
Isha Life is a wellness-focused enterprise offering natural, health-oriented food and lifestyle products. The organization emphasizes clean-label ingredients, traditional formulations, and innovative food solutions aligned with holistic well-being.
Job Details:
- Job Title: Food Innovation & Development Executive
- Company: Isha Life
- Location: India (Travel Required)
- Employment Type: Full-time
Role Overview
The Food Innovation & Development Executive is responsible for leading product development initiatives across a diverse portfolio of health and wellness food products. The role involves formulation, experimentation, pilot-scale trials, and coordination with external partners to bring products from concept to commercialization while ensuring quality and regulatory compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead formulation and optimization of products across categories such as energy bars, mixes, snacks, confectionery, dairy, and ready-to-eat/drink formats
- Design, execute, and document laboratory and pilot-scale trials for various products including cookies, herbal teas, honey variants, chocolates, and instant mixes
- Coordinate with co-packers, suppliers, incubation centers, and laboratories to ensure timely delivery and process alignment
- Plan and conduct sensory evaluations (internal panels and limited consumer trials) and translate feedback into product improvements
- Ensure adherence to clean-label standards, FSSAI regulations, and perform basic shelf-life evaluations
- Prepare and hand over commercial-ready documentation including formulation sheets, process flows, and trial reports
- Travel frequently to manufacturing plants, co-packers, and farms for trials, commissioning, and troubleshooting
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is hands-on, detail-oriented, and experienced in food product development with the ability to translate concepts into scalable commercial products.
Skills & Competencies
- Experience across 2–3 product segments such as bakery, snacks, traditional mixes, confectionery, beverages, health foods, or dairy
- Strong foundation in food science including cereals, millets, fats, sugars and alternatives, nuts, seeds, herbs, and functional ingredients
- Practical knowledge of processing techniques such as mixing, roasting, extrusion, baking, milling, dehydration, and filling
- Ability to design lab trials and scale them to pilot and commercial production
- Experience in basic analytical testing (moisture, fat, microbiology) and result interpretation
- Knowledge of clean-label product development and natural sweeteners
- Experience adapting recipes into stable RTÉ (Ready-to-Eat), RTS (Ready-to-Serve), and RTD (Ready-to-Drink) formats
- Familiarity with sensory evaluation techniques (hedonic testing, triangle tests, benchmarking)
- Strong documentation and data analysis skills (spreadsheet proficiency)
- Understanding of regulatory requirements, particularly FSSAI
Additional Requirements
- Willingness to travel frequently for on-site product trials and coordination
Application Process
Interested candidates are required to submit their resumes for consideration.
