Probiotic Manager For Gurgaon location

Hands on experience on the probiotics culture handling, Isolation, Identification and purifications of Probiotic strains from natural source such as fermented and beverages.

• Experience in developing Bacillus spore, Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium probiotics.
• Expertise in lab scale production of sporulating Probiotic anaerobic bacterial culture.
• Knowledge and experience in determining the Probiotic safety (phenotypic and genotypic) and efficacy of probiotic potential.
• Experience in the upstream, shake flask technology, fermentation, product formulation for microbial based products
• Handling all kind of fermenters like semi-automated and fully automated and 100 L to 10,000L fermenters.
• Expertise in various downstream processes like freeze drying, spray drying, centrifugation etc. at both lab scale and commercial scale.
• Responsible for end to end product development and commercialization of products.
• Support Technical transfer and develop formulations from lab scale to large scale Production.
• Experience in down streaming processes to handle bacterial and fungal products for separation/concentration of biomass followed by drying techniques i.e. spray drying and freeze drying etc.
• Microbial encapsulation techniques to optimize down streaming process for microbial products for maximum viability followed by storage stability.
• Developing water soluble formulation of microbial based products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing a team of Scientists and execution of the projects related to probiotic development and involving down streaming process optimization.
• Technology transfer to plant and validation of the same.
• Project management, Technology commercialization.
• Securing the IP of the technologies and products developed in the project scope.

Qualification:

Ph.D. in Microbiology/Biotechnology with the specialization of probiotic research and down streaming process

Skills:

• Expertise in aseptic microbial techniques for handling pure single strain of anaerobic and aerobic bacterial and fungal cultures.
• Microbial phenotypic and genotypic identification techniques.
• Whole genome sequencing along with bioinformatics tools.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.