1. Location: Accrington
2. Salary: Up to £60,000
About Our Client
This is a well-established, large organisation within the FMCG and manufacturing sector
Job Description
3. Manage the full NPD gate process ensuring all stakeholders are kept up to date and all customer dates are achieved including Chair the Weekly NPD meeting.
4. Understand Factory Process and Recipe management in order to scope out potential savings
5. Support Engineering on capex with process support for product development as required
6. Benchmarking of competitor products and internal tasting sessions and Buy Back sessions
7. Manage costings for all NPD & EPD
8. Present at customer NPD sessions
9. Work cross departmentally to deliver briefs in a timely manner, i.e supporting Technical with relevant paperwork, HACCP etc.
10. New packaging sign off / approval to include inner and outer packaging requirements
11. Documentation of all relevant information in an organised manner
The Successful Applicant
12. 3-5 years NPD/Process experience within a food manufacturing environment
13. Proactive, self-motivated and achievement orientated
14. Value driven
15. Consumer, customer and industry awareness
16. Excellent organisational, project management and time management skills
17. Excellent communication and presentational skills with the ability to influence across a number of levels
18. A sound working knowledge of Microsoft Office
19. Excellent attention to detail
What's on Offer
Great company benefits