R&D Manager

The candidate is required to work fully on-site at Tangerang, Indonesia.

Our client is a rapidly growing Indonesian consumer health company specializing in sports nutrition, dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional food products.

The company develops and commercializes a broad range of active nutrition and wellness products serving fitness enthusiasts, athletes, and health-conscious consumers. Its product portfolio covers multiple formats, including protein powders, amino acids, creatine, pre-workout products, capsules, tablets, and functional beverage concepts.

With continued business expansion and increasing consumer demand for locally developed health and sports nutrition products, the company is strengthening its R&D capabilities to accelerate product innovation, improve formulation quality, optimize product costs, and strengthen its position within Indonesia's consumer health market.

The R&D Manager - Sports Nutrition & Nutraceuticals is a key leadership position responsible for overseeing research, product development, formulation, laboratory operations, scale-up, and commercialization of sports nutrition, dietary supplement, nutraceutical, and functional food products.

The role will lead the full product development lifecycle, from product concept and raw material evaluation through formulation, laboratory trials, pilot-scale development, manufacturing scale-up, and commercial launch.

This is a highly hands-on management position requiring strong technical expertise in supplement formulation, sensory development, ingredient functionality, product stability, and COGS optimization. The ideal candidate is also expected to have genuine knowledge and passion for fitness and sports nutrition products, combined with strong leadership and commercial awareness.

• Lead end-to-end R&D and product development for sports nutrition, dietary supplement, nutraceutical, and functional food products.
• Translate consumer trends, market opportunities, scientific research, and business requirements into commercially viable product concepts.
• Develop and optimize formulations across powder blends, capsules, tablets, stick packs, RTDs, and other relevant product formats.
• Conduct and oversee laboratory trials to optimize taste, flavor masking, solubility, dispersibility, sensory profile, and active ingredient stability.
• Lead product development from initial concept and raw material evaluation through formulation, laboratory trials, pilot-scale testing, manufacturing scale-up, and commercial launch.
• Direct laboratory and pilot-scale trials at the BSD R&D facility and ensure effective technical transfer to manufacturing facilities.
• Troubleshoot formulation challenges involving ingredient interactions, sensory performance, solubility, stability, shelf life, and manufacturing processes.
• Optimize existing product formulations to improve product quality, consumer experience, production efficiency, and cost competitiveness.
• Establish target COGS and cost-per-serving calculations for new product concepts and reformulation projects.
• Evaluate alternative raw materials and functional ingredients to achieve cost efficiencies without compromising product efficacy, quality, taste, or consumer acceptance.
• Evaluate, qualify, and approve raw materials, active ingredients, suppliers, and relevant technical documentation.
• Work closely with Regulatory, Quality Control, Production, Procurement, and Marketing teams to ensure successful product development and commercialization.
• Ensure product development activities comply with applicable BPOM, Halal, GMP, HACCP, and other relevant quality and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain complete and audit-ready R&D documentation, including…