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Regional Specialist, Food Development

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This job is about being a Regional Specialist in Food Development, where you'll help launch new food products smoothly. You might like this job because you get to connect teams, track progress, and share insights to improve future launches!

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Subang Jaya, Selangor

Job Description

Objective

To ensure seamless, high quality rollout of food products across the region by coordinating cross-functional readiness, supporting frontline execution and driving structured post-launch performance reporting. The role acts as a critical link between product development and in-market execution teams with a strong focus on consistency, operational feasibility and continous improvements.

Position Responsibilities

Part 1 –Primary roles of the job which are measurable and may be used as part of KPIs

 Launch Execution & Readiness

  • Coordinate and manage all pre-launch operational readiness activities across markets
  • Ensure timely deployment of food launch materials such as recipe cards, cost sheets, marketing assets and team briefings
  • Act as the key liaison externally and internally to drive launches

Operational Coordination

  • Track market wise execution status and flag readiness risks to direct report
  • Support the translation of product intent into operationally viable execution plans
  • Help ensure food launches meet intended cost, quality and customer experience standards

Part 2 – Secondary roles which supports the primary roles above

Performance Tracking & Reporting

  • Consolidate launch performance data (sales uplift, SOP adherence, operational feedback, customer feedbacks) into structured reports 
  • Monitor and document issues encountered, escalate and drive action plans to remediate issues 
  • Support post launch review with learnings, insights and suggested process improvements 

Tools, Templates & Best Practices

  • Maintain and evolve standardized templates for launch documentation, readiness tracking and performance reporting 
  • Help identify and document best practices in food launch execution across the region for future application

Job Requirements

Qualification and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Business, Hospitality or related field
  • 2 - 4 years of experience in product launch coordination, QSR, F&B operations or category support roles
  • Exposure to food or beverage rollouts at a regional or multi-market level exposure

Skills & Knowledge

  • Understanding of food service operations 
  • Familiarity with go-to-market processes, launch playbooks and executional checklists
  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and track timelines diligently 
  • Strong working knowledge on Excel, PowerPoint and basic reporting tools 
  • Basic understanding of cost of sales, portioning and food preparation standards

a Neccesity, not a Luxury


Skills

Food Science
Hospitality

Company Benefits

Employee Discount

Enjoy employee discounts on beverage, merchandise, etc at all outlets across Malaysia.

Employee Perk Programmes

Establishment of corporate benefits to offer exclusive discounts or benefits to each employee.

Health and Wellness

Out-patient care and in-patient care are covered for all employee including ongoing wellness programs & activites.

Career Development

Job training and continuing education help to fuel employee career growth.

Extension Leave Benefits

Provide more generous with their leave days. We have more than 6 other types of leave!


Additional Info

Company Activity

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Career Level

Junior Executive

Job Specialisation


Company Profile

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ZUS COFFEE

For many, coffee is a daily need. Specialty coffee, however, is often seen as a luxury, something you treat yourself to only on special occasions.We started ZUS Coffee to change this perception.With the best quality ingredients, high-level coffee brewing technology and innovative business model, we’re evolving the concept of coffee consumption to make specialty coffee affordable for everyone, everyday.a...