Job Description
About Us
We are building high-quality, functional ingredients from India's indigenous crops. Our focus is on taking simple agricultural raw materials and converting them into meaningful B2B food ingredients (proteins, starches, fruit powders, etc.) for beverage, nutrition, snacks, and processed-food companies.
Role Summary
Combine desk research, product mapping, and customer conversations helping the firm diversify it's product portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
Map indigenous crops for value-added ingredients.
Shortlist ideas based on availability, ease of processing, import dependence, and export potential and potential import substitution.
Conduct secondary research using reliable sources (APEDA, IBEF, trade data, journals) to strengthen the developed idea.
Build briefs: market size, players, price references, applications, gaps.
Speak to stakeholders validating the forecasted demand..
Understand pain points, current ingredients, demand, pricing
What You'll Learn
How B2B ingredient markets work.
How to evaluate new product opportunities.
How to run structured customer interviews.
How to interpret trade & industry data.
Background:
Student currently pursuing MBA or in the final year of MBA with a background in Food Technology/Chemicals Engineering/Biotech.
Extrovert, curious and always on the lookout for opportunities.
Out of the box thinking ability.
