Overview

This is a brand new role reporting into the Head of Development and working with the major retailers in the UK. You will play a pivotal role across customer management, product development, and factory support. Main responsibilities include:

Coordinate development from concept through to final launch.
Develop recipes and products, conducts hands-on development work from initial kitchen trials to industrial trials.
Be your customers main point of contact for development, optimisation and improvement projects from brief to launch and other queries about products, process and packaging.
Face to face presentation to customer either at their head office, or on site to explain the company’s business model, development capabilities and technical advantages.
Manage end to end artwork development, internally and externally.

About you

The successful candidate will have at least 5 years’ experience of working in a similar NPD role within food manufacturing. In addition:

Degree (or equivalent experience) in Food Science or Food Technology.
Ideally an understanding of dairy science.
Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
A proven record of project management.
Capacity and capability to lead and deliver multiple projects in parallel.

The NPD Project Manager’s job (ref:9017) is paying £50,000 according to your experience.

The package includes a company pension with a 6% employer contribution (STC), 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, company sick pay, 4 x Death in Service, long service recognition, wellbeing initiatives, free flu jabs, employee assistance programme, free eye tests with £90 contribution to prescription lenses. There is also the possibility of financial relocation help.

This is a site-based role based in Wiltshire, commutable from Bristol, Bath, Swindon, Salisbury, Andover, Devizes, Chippenham and other surrounding towns.

The working hours are Monday to Friday.

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