NPD Technologist

Wednesbury

£38,000 - £50,000 DOE

Monday - Friday - 8.30am - 5.00pm

Are you an NPD Technologist looking for something new? I have an exciting new role with a European Food Group, who are market leaders in their field.

Paying up to £50k depending on experience, this £700 million t/o and growing organisation is looking to recruit an experience NPD Technologist to join its friendly and established team.

This fabulous role would suit someone who is looking for a new challenge, in an excellent working environment including state of the art innovation suite/NPD Kitchen, with working hours that provide the perfect work-life balance, but also progression possibilities for the right candidate.

Key Duties

• Develop new products and record all required information to generate an accurate costing and maintain critical paths.
• Follow the companies gated NPD process
• Work closely with other relevant cross-sectional departments.
• Must have excellent time management skills and be responsible for self-supervision.
• Maintaining a level of hygiene in NPD kitchen as required for a working kitchen.
• Collection of ingredients, making samples and panelling samples with the team.
• Develop new products and record all required information to generate an accurate costing and maintain critical paths.
• To run internal benchmarking sessions & manage a rolling calendar to ensure all lines are benchmarked at least once every 6 months.
• Data entry into the company ACCESS system, to maintain Bill of Materials
• Provide a report to the marketing and commercial team to feed recommendations into existing products
• Accountable for running & documenting organoleptic shelf-life panel for NPD/lines

Essential Skills and Experience

• Previous experience in a similar NPD development role.
• Degree or equivalent in science/ food science related qualification.
• An innovative thinking "foodie" with an eye for detail
• A creative individual with a real passion for food.
• Good numeracy skills, understanding of %s.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills and attention to detail.
• Effective interpretation and translation of information with good report writing skills.

To Apply for this position please contact Sarah Dyehouse at Anderson Scott Solutions