Job Title: NPD Process Technologist - Bakery, Woking
Join our marketing team as an NPD Process Technologist with a passion for high-quality bakery products.
Responsibilities:
* Manage factory trials in our Bread and Bake-Off factories, capturing all relevant information following NPD procedure guidelines.
* Conduct recipe experimentation and produce concept samples in the academy.
* Liaise with Group NPD to gain product knowledge and assist with product launches.
* Support NPD projects through to launch, providing coaching and instructions to factory operatives.
* Report trial results and project updates in scheduled meetings.
* Collaborate with Project and Product Managers, Operations Manager, and Head of Innovation on sourcing, designing, and testing packaging types and materials.
* Coordinate with suppliers to obtain packaging and ingredient samples, staying updated on latest innovations.
* Assist in managing the Academy facility, ensuring cleanliness, proper labelling, and organisation of ingredients and samples.
* Maintain all site-based NPD paperwork and systems.
* Hold weekly meetings with site departments to align on ongoing NPD and EPD projects.
* Support product transfers and contingency projects using site knowledge to run trials.
* Continuously expand bakery knowledge, ingredients, processes, and techniques.
* Bake off and pack samples for internal and external review.
* Organise sending samples of new and current products to customers.
* Participate in audits, keeping paperwork ready and participating when required.
Skills and Experience:
* 3+ years bakery industry experience
* Good ingredient and product knowledge
* Ability to formulate recipes and develop products
* Operational and factory process experience
* Excellent organisational skills
* IT literacy – Excel and PowerPoint
What We Offer:
* Annual bonus
* 33 days holiday per year, including Bank Holidays (option to buy 5 more)
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