Role Summary
Ensuring all innovation, NPD and EPD activity is fit for manufacture and delivers the right quality and financial criteria required by the business for both its brands and customer brands.
You will manage projects from final prototype to launch. You will support and collaborate with site team members to ensure they have what they require to deliver on their accountabilities ensuring you have what you need to deliver yours. You will also build relationships externally with suppliers.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
1. Manage the delivery of projects using the company's NPD process from brief to post launch review.
2. Ensure all new products & processes are transferred from final prototype to production by providing process specifications, completing necessary trials to deliver confidence and reliability, establish process capability & control instructions.
3. Monitor and manage trial budget and overhead spend and introduce measures where appropriate to control the budget.
4. Ensure all new products and packaging meet commercial, financial, technical and legislation requirements.
5. Responsibility for ensuring the necessary information is provided to technical to complete product manuals for all new products prior to commercial launch.
6. Keep abreast of technical and legal developments relevant to our product portfolio.
7. Keep up-to date with the market trends and new developments within the category.
Qualifications, Experience, Technical Skills & Knowledge
1. Project management skills including critical path analysis.
2. Financial understanding. Costing and gross margin.
3. Excellent understanding of food manufacturing processes and the overall market particularly related to healthy snacking.
4. Food Science background Innovation, NPD, EPD, process with commercial bias.
5. Sound knowledge of raw materials and packaging across the market.
6. Constant drive, enthusiasm, and self-motivation with ability to motivate others cross functionally.
7. Committed, disciplined and well organised.
8. Management of process, reporting and paperwork.
9. Able to communicate effectively with people at all levels of the business.
10. Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
11. Ideally at least 3 years experience in the food industry NPD, Process Engineering or Technical FMCG environment.
12. Thrives in a fast pace environment.
13. Fully computer literate.
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