R&D Pastry Lead

1 week ago

Singapore PLAIN VANILLA BAKERY PTE. LTD. Full time $90,000 - $120,000 per year

Overview

The R&D Pastry Lead is a key role within Plain Vanilla's Central Kitchen, responsible for driving pastry innovation, developing new products, and ensuring the highest standards of recipe documentation and quality. This position combines hands-on pastry expertise with structured research, testing, and training, ensuring that new products are successfully integrated into production and consistently delivered across all outlets.

Key Responsibilities

1. Research & Development

  • Lead the ideation, development, and testing of new pastry products in line with brand identity, customer trends, and campaign calendars.
  • Conduct trials, evaluate results, and refine recipes for scalability and operational feasibility.
  • Benchmark recipes against seasonal campaigns and competitor offerings to ensure market relevance.

2. Recipe Documentation & Playbook

  • Create, update, and maintain a comprehensive recipe SOP library, including step-by-step methods, photos, and plating guidelines.
  • Ensure version control and standardisation across all recipe documents.
  • Develop and maintain a Pastry Development Playbook to serve as a training and reference guide for the team.

3. Training & Capability Development

  • Train CK and store-level teams on new product execution and pastry standards.
  • Create visual guides and training modules to ensure knowledge transfer and consistency.
  • Mentor pastry team members to strengthen innovation capability and technical knowledge.

4. Production Integration & Quality Control

  • Oversee production runs for new products, ensuring recipes can be executed at scale without compromising quality.
  • Conduct quality control (QC) checks during production runs to ensure consistency, taste, presentation, and shelf-life stability.
  • Collaborate with Production Managers and FOH leadership to ensure seamless rollout and feedback loops for new products.

5. Continuous Improvement & Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with Brand, Culinary, and Operations teams to align R&D output with business strategy and customer experience goals.
  • Review and refine existing pastry recipes to improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and product quality.
    Monitor customer and team feedback to inform future innovation cycles.

Requirements

  • Diploma or higher in Pastry & Baking Arts or equivalent professional training is advantageous.

  • Prior hands-on pastry experience required. Prior experience in an R&D or product development role is advantageous.

  • Strong technical knowledge of pastry techniques, ingredients, and production scaling.

  • Excellent documentation, training, and communication skills.

  • Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to balance creativity with operational feasibility.

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