Senior NPD Technologist

We are proud to be working alongside our client who manufacture quality fresh and frozen fruit ingredients. The company is dedicated to delivering high-quality products to a wide stream of customers including most of the major retailers.

• Deliver customer-focused and commercially successful NPD and EPD projects.
• Ensure all developments meet customer requirements, legal standards, allergen controls, sustainability goals, and welfare standards.
• Identify opportunities for product improvement that enhance customer satisfaction and business value.
• Support innovation sessions and customer presentations, bringing market trends and consumer insights to life.
• Become a subject matter expert within the product category.
• Lead projects through the Concept-to-Launch Gate Process, ensuring milestones are met and fully documented.
• Manage project critical paths and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver successful product launches.
• Assess product feasibility and ensure all developments are technically and commercially viable.
• Build and maintain accurate recipe and costing data within internal systems.
• Support customer relationships by delivering projects on time and managing expectations effectively.
• In collaboration with operations, support with scale-up processes and factory trials, ensuring that expectations on quality are clearly communicated and defined.
• Support during first production runs and post-launch reviews, ensuring expectations set during development and trials are achieved.
• Collaborate with commercial, procurement, operations, and technical teams to ensure alignment on project timelines.
• Ensure products presented to customers are of the highest quality and representative of manufacturing capabilities.
• Responsible for building technical documentation during the trial with operations.
• Challenge and resolve quality or consistency issues quickly and effectively.
• Review and approve artwork to ensure compliance with legal and customer requirements.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of best-practice development processes.
• Maintain all required documentation to support internal and external audits.
• Manage and maintain technical documentation associated with NPD and first productions, including QAS, defrost validations, QC check sheets, and data collection.
• Support technical with specifications information for new products.
• Identify and update technical team with any new products that require a HACCP review and attend HACCP meetings when required.
• Ensure information relevant to gate stages is handed over to NPD packaging coordinator.
• Stay ahead of emerging food, consumer, and restaurant trends.
• Monitor competitor activity and identify new business opportunities.
• Support customer roadmaps and innovation strategies aligned to market trends and site capabilities.
• Bring passion, creativity, and food expertise into every project.
• Support with business updates, including weekly project status, sharing information required for board and exec meetings, when requested and for research, development, and creation of quarterly trend reviews.

• Previous experience in a Product Development role within the food manufacturing industry.
• Proven experience launching food products from concept to market.
• Product costing experience.
• Understanding of budgets and commercial drivers.
• Supply chain knowledge, including sourcing ingredients and packaging.
• Strong project management skills with experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical ability and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Relevant food industry qualification and/or equivalent experience.
• Desirable**:
• Degree in Food Science, Marketing, Business, or a related discipline.
• Experience within relevant product categories.

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