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Opportunity to lead your own food innovation projects as part of a talented and supportive NPD team.
Here you’ll be working in a hands-on development role with full ownership of your projects from concept to launch. This will involve close working with marketing on the brief, recipe development and ingredient sourcing, calculating costings and nutritional information, factory trials and scale up to launch.
It’s an opportunity to work on NPD projects across multiple sites and product areas. You’ll be researching, developing and trialling new concepts in high-growth innovative product categories.
Joining a highly regarded business with an impressive portfolio of products, you’ll be part of a collaborative and driven NPD team that love to push the boundaries. They have developed many commercially successful and award-winning new products in recent years and continue to lead innovation in their areas. You’ll have the chance to work on a varied range of projects and travel across different sites, working with the different operations and process teams.
To succeed here you’ll need to have experience in an NPD role, handling projects through all stages of development. You need to be confident building relationships across all areas of the business and with suppliers. Having a keen eye on the latest food trends and ability to create delicious new products, you’ll be comfortable in the development kitchen and interested in all things food-related. A Food Science or related degree is preferred but not essential. As the role involves travel, you’ll need a driving licence and your own transport.