Senior Product Development Manager - 12 Month FTC

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led ,
resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility , we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

pladisoperates in highly competitive,fast-movingmarkets where it is essential tomaintainand extend market share through profitable branded growth.

Successful innovation through product development, continuous value improvement and consumer perceived quality superiority vs. the competition are critical.

This is acriticalrole responsible for building opportunities toexplore,develop and implementprotoceptsto prototypes to fit concepts that will drive brand strategies across multiple geographies.

They will work closely with marketing teams to activate and bring to reality technical briefs.

They will support the Breakthrough Product Director in thedeliveryagainstan ambitious and transformationalbreakthrough productstrategythat isaligned to the growth ambition and sustainability aspirations of the company.

The role requires an individual who is competent and skilledatworking acrosscultures and functions and collaborating to deliver with others.

They need to be able to work effectively withboth internal and external partners to identify appropriate opportunities and drive development of innovative solutions, best practiceapproachesandsystems.

• Managing the development andthe Global Savoury Expansion initiative – with an aim ofgrowing thepladisportfolio in new and existing markets: working closely with bothglobal commercial and regional R&D teams while employing strong technical project management

• Leading initiatives to unlocking future technologies by applyingbothstrongproduct and process knowledge to build scale platforms for innovation. This will includeprototyping,planning and executingtrialsin both pilot plants and production facilities,identifying process requirements

• Defining and delivering technical concepts into product development

• Developing solutions to technical hurdles

• Providing a technical responsetocommercial briefs

• Owning and delivering bench samples and pilot / factory trials

• Managing trial budgets and project plans

The ideal candidate will have excellent core technical skills,string understanding and experience inproduct development and managing such projects/programs,agoodunderstanding of process/chemical engineering principles and be able to understand the needs of the business, ourconsumersand customers to drive an exciting productagenda.

You will be a self-starter,possessa drive for results.

pladisorganization model is based on8regions with full accountability of their own P&L

• Global

• UK & Ireland

• Europe & Emerging Markets (EEM)

• Turkey, Central Asia (TRCA)

• Middle East, North Africa (MENA)

• North America (Nam)

• Asia pacific (APAC)

• Godiva (Global)

GlobalR&D workshand in hand on many initiatives with partners in the other functions (both globally and within regions) to create strong competitive advantages forpladisincluding:

• Product Innovation

• Identification andunlocking of future technologies

• Portfolio transformation for Health and Happiness

• Sustainability (i.e. environment-friendly initiatives)

• Transformational Productivity, through product reformulation

• Define and deliver a medium to long term roadmap and align an agenda to drive innovation,sustainability and productivity – build the internal cross-functionalexpertiseand relationships to…