Job Description
The Company
With a mission to delight their key retailer customers with exciting own-label products, this chilled food manufacturer is looking for an ambitious NPD Technologist to join their creative innovation team.
The Role
You’ll report to the NPD Manager and working closely with Innovation Chefs, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering both new and evolving product ranges for major UK retailers.
In this hands-on role, you’ll contribute to the full NPD and EPD lifecycle, from concept development to customer submission and factory handover. You’ll create and manage detailed product documentation, benchmark competitor products, and ensure concepts are aligned with production and packing capabilities. Your involvement will also extend to supporting factory trials, ensuring consistency between kitchen samples and full-scale production.
You’ll provide insightful, practical input to chef concepts, helping shape commercially viable products without compromising creativity. Your responsibilities will include calculating nutritional data using retailer tools, preparing customer-facing documents across all stages of development, and liaising with suppliers to gather key technical and commercial information. You’ll also compile Feasibility Meeting documentation, coordinate internal...