The company Nigel Wright are currently working with an established food manufacturing business that are really looking to strengthen their NPD team. The role This is a newly created role, with exposure across multiple sites within the UK and Europe. Bringing together NPD and factory trials, this is a great opportunity for an NPD technologist looking for their next challenge within food manufacturing.Responsibilities include:• Developing recipes that are acceptable from a food safety point of view but also to target cost and waste levels that deliver competitive advantage.• Working with / alongside wider NPD team to ensure all EPD/NPD SKUs are functional on existing equipment while working with technical/operations where existing processes may needs to be amended/updated.• Capturing all associated NPD ingredient and trial costs. Liaising with NPD Project Managers on laboratory costs. • To work with multi manufacturing sites and multi-channel projects on product portfolio• Take new / existing product developments through to the full factory trial process including but not limited to; trial requests, completion of full trial reports, data capture, collating samples for nutritional and micro testing, customers where required and completing QAS documents. • Working in conjunction with wider NPD Team, Technical, Operations and Engineering to ensure any defects and faults/issues/affecting NPD trials/launches are resolved.• Identifying new ingredients that need to be reviewed by the HACCP team. The person We are ideally looking for someone who has the following experience:• Food Science based degree preferable and/or considerable experience innovation / food manufacturing • Team player and able to work collaboratively with wider NPD team and numerous internal and external suppliers/customers.• Good organisational skills with ability to manage multiple projects.