Senior NPD Technologist - Employment, career opportunity in UK

Job Title:  Senior NPD Technologist
Job Type:    Contract/Interim
Location:    Cambridgeshire
Start Date;    ASAP
Duration:    12 Months
Salary:    £33k pa + Benefits
Ref No:    108801-ALNPDT_108996


We are looking to recruit an experienced NPD Technologist to join the NPD team. As a Senior NPD Technologist you will coordinate and deliver product development for all categories, working in harmony with all other functions to ensure costs, timescales, efficiency and quality are met for each project. Supervision of the efforts of the NPD Technologists and Kitchen Technician.
- You will help to develop products, both NPD and EPD, ensuring that costs are maintained to achieve margin aspirations aligned with the business.
- Develop new commercial products and where necessary cost engineer existing products in a way that complements the business strategy using commercial and customer feedback, market trends and innovations as well as personal ideas and influences.
- Work with other internal functions and external suppliers
- Organise and attend customer and supplier presentations.
- Management of NPD Technologist and Kitchen Technician to include training and development, performance monitoring, counselling and disciplining.

Essential Skills
- You MUST have worked within NPD for a Food Manufacturing.
- Proven involvement and/or ownership of launched product into market.
- Relevant third level qualification, food science preferred.
- Able to demonstrate professionalism in all communications both externally and internally through different forms of media.
- Able to handle customers/suppliers with confidence (including meetings, visits and briefings), interacts in a professional manner, building lasting working relationships.
- Must be able to work flexible hours.
- Clean driving licence as travel to other sites will be required.


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