Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
We are recruiting for an NPD Technologist to work with the wider R&D team and operations team to drive the projects through the development process in a timely manner.
This role will involve activities such as, Build relationships with Marketing, Operations and Commercial and ensure Customer care and adherence to the Kerry Purpose, Vision and Values
Process Improvements and Profit Improvement Projects (PIPs) that will be loved by our customers and deliver commercially for the business.
Interpretation of project briefs and planning and co-ordination of the gate zero meeting to gain site approval to progress the project. This will involve creation of the feasibility study outlining how, how much, how long the projects will take, while ensuring the correct systems are used to manage the project (e.g.) use of Salesforce.
Master schedules to be developed for each project and to be communicated and managed with the key stakeholders involved in the project.
This will involve conducting trials on benchtop, in the pilot plant through to scale up trial in the factory in conjunction with the site teams.
Costings will be completed in conjunction with procurement and site finance and communicated to brand / customer for approval once the process has been agreed with the site team.
All trial records to be kept in folder and online for reference purposes ensuring trial success or failure to be cleared captured and recorded.
Managing private label and branded artwork approval.
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All new concepts to be presented to site SLT / key stakeholders prior to panels ensuring accurate costings are delivered against current factory capabilities and Post launch reviews of the quality of existing products via Consistency Panels to be completed.
Also, along with the total team ensure that the NPD work areas are maintained and cleaned to the highest possible standards.
Once project has been approved by brand / customer the commercialisation process will be followed in conjunction with the, site quality/technical team, brand or sales lead. This process will be followed to ensure the transfer of quality into the factory with the support of the site teams during trials and on-going post-launch until full handover.
Responsible for the handover of the Tech Doc to the Quality / Technical/ Regulatory / Packaging departments to assist them in completion of customer specifications and artwork approval for both product and packaging based on the information gathered throughout the development process.
Supporting the brand/customer agendas via project delivery
Working alongside the R&D Co-Ordinator / NPI team to prepare high quality presentation paperwork
Maintaining awareness of market, consumer & restaurant trends, and competitor activity, applying this knowledge during the development phase as well as understanding the customer protocols and Kerry’s strategic plan (eg) Packaging sustainability plans and lead out the sourcing and trials in conjunction with the packaging lead, procurement, and the site team.