What you will be doing:
* Customers main point of contact for development, optimisation and improvement projects from brief to launch.
* Main contact between all departments to ensure a smooth launch of the new products or changes in the factory.
* Manage end to end packaging development with the right process and legal checks through to sign off either for development projects and design or legal updates.
* Manage the organization of the industrial trials, communicate the results, actions/improvements to be carried out and follow up on them.
* Meet production, quality and legal requirements alongside with customers’ requirements.
1. What you will need to succeed
* A background in FMCG/Food manufacturing/ Food transformation / NPD
* Confident communicator – able to lead and deliver customer meetings.
* Flexibility on working hours to meet demands of the business, and to travel to client sites.
* Lead and deliver multiple projects in parallel.
* Work unsupervised and achieve results within tight deadlines.
* Excellent educational background (ideally degree in food technology or food science)
What you will receive in return:
* Company pension 6%* employer contribution (*subject to contract)
* 25 days holiday + Bank holidays
* Company sick pay
* 4 x Death in Service
* Wellbeing initiatives – Free eye tests, £90 contribution to prescription lenses