Licious

Company Name:
Licious

Job Title:
Assistant Manager 

Job Location:
Bengaluru 

Description:

Founded by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, Licious is a consumer food company, focussed at delighting the world with an unmatched range of meat & seafood products. Present in raw & fresh meat and seafood, marinades and ready-to-eat categories, Licious is set to disrupt every food category that needs a meaty intervention!

The company is built with a vision to emerge as India’s most loved meat food brand by offering premium quality products.
In a highly underserved market, which is estimated at $40 billion today, Licious as a category-first brand backed by technology, has been able to solve the prevailing customer pain points of quality, hygiene, freshness and convenience in a sustainable manner. Built on the farm to fork business model, Licious owns the entire back-end supply chain powered by stringent cold chain control to maintain the quality and freshness of each product from the time of procurement, processing, storage to the time it reaches the end consumer.

In just 5 years Licious has witnessed a 300% growth and has served over three million packs of world class meat products to consumers across Bangalore, Hyderabad, NCR, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Coimbatore, Jaipur, Kochi, Vizag, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Pondicherry & Kolkata. Licious serves over 1mn orders every-month with over 90% repeat consumption across markets.

As a category leader and the largest direct to consumer fresh meat & seafood brand, Licious has been able to build differentiation across all dimensions including technology, data science, supply chain, product quality, consumer engagement and category understanding. With seamless supply chain capabilities which are cold chain powered and scientifically maintaining global standard of quality and freshness of each product, Licious is ahead of the curve and holds a great distinction to drive the meat and seafood category which has remained highly unorganized.

● Development of spices and seasoning inhouse and sourcing the formulations through 3P vendors.

● Partnering with functional ingredient suppliers, exploring the interaction of ingredients, including ingredients such as Proteins,fibres, Starches, stabilisers, and flavours, their impact on the final product.

● Working closely together with marketing, Regulatory and Quality teams to identify and grow new opportunities in the Plant-Based Meat segment.

● Developing new products for Pet food segment under guidance of veterinarians and a pet nutritionists.

Travel Requirements:

● Estimated at 30%. Travel is required to various Licious/ OEM locations, vendor meetings or other job-related functions.

Must have:

● Hands-on experience or an understanding of areas of Meat Processing, Meat-based RTE and RTC, Breaded Meats and Marinades, Protein Blends, Protein Functionalities and synergies between ingredient matrices is a must. Experience or understanding of packaging concepts or of packaging materials.

● Demonstrated leadership in all phases of product development and commercialisation process. Prior management experience with direct reports of various experience and skill levels

Education & Experience:

● A Bachelor’s in Food Science with 6 Years’ experience in the Food Industry

OR

● Master’s in food science with 4 Years’ experience in the Food Industry.

Apply Here:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4151864166