Senior Npd Technologist

Skills

If you have the Senior NPD Technologist experience and skills we are looking for then you will receive a total reward package that includes:

• A competitive salary of £40,000 p/a
• 28 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
• Access to Stream (formerly Wagestream) – a financial wellbeing benefit that lets you track earnings and access earned pay before payday, plus budgeting tools and money support to help you stay in control.
• Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
• Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
• Professional development opportunities and qualifications
• A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
• Great opportunity for career development

• A competitive salary of £40,000 p/a
• 8% Pension Contribution
• 28 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
• £250 refer-a-friend scheme
• Access to Stream (formerly Wagestream) – a financial wellbeing benefit that lets you track earnings and access earned pay before payday, plus budgeting tools and money support to help you stay in control.
• Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
• Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
• Professional development opportunities and qualifications
• A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
• Great opportunity for career development

Our Vision as a business is to be the “Go-to” supplier of bakery products, working nationally with retailers such as M&S and Waitrose on their premium private label range and regionally through the Village Bakery brand. In achieving this vision, we want to be recognised as a family business that continually invests in the future through the development of our people, quality and food safety culture, equipment and processes.

• You will liaise with external partners and internal departments in order to co-ordinate and drive the development of products throughout the business and ensure that project timelines and targets are achieved.
• Manage customer accounts with NPD & EPD projects, from concept through to launch
• Direct contact with customers / retailers, face to face and written communication.
• Work to tight deadlines in a fast pace environment ensuring that all key milestones are met.
• Champion all documentation throughout concept to launch process - including recipes, submission forms, customer presentations, QAS/ CQMs, launch folders, factory paperwork.
• Manage all tasks associated with product launch - organoleptic testing, lab analysis, packaging etc
• Lead on feasibility meetings, pre-launch meetings and product launches
• Sourcing of new ingredients and ensuring these are approved by the Compliance Manager
• Responsibility for ensuring that product samples are sent to customers according to agreed specifications and requirements prior to despatch
• Support team’s workload to  get the job done
• Work closely with relevant specification writer to ensure alignment with project updates
• Attend quality panels when required and or Competitor benchmarking sessions
• Keeping up to date with competitors and planning in regular benchmarking sessions
• Keeping up to date with latest food trends.
• Artwork sign off
• Maintain up to date project trackers
• Attend weekly NPD meetings and update on projects and critical paths
• Support the Group NPD manager with customer presentations
• Generation of ingredient declarations and theoretical nutritional’s and completion of customer submission forms
• Review of shelf-life results with Site Quality Manager to agree proposed shelf life
• Familiar with customer codes of practice.
• Check off recipe v specification prior…