Contact Email: sarah.elliott@thrivegroup.co.uk
Duration: PERMANENT
Start Date: ASAP
Job Description
Thrive Group is working with a market-leading company based in Frome, actively seeking to hire a NPD Project Manager on a permanent basis.
Responsibilities include:
* Serving as the main contact for customers regarding development, optimisation, and improvement projects from brief to launch.
* Coordinating between departments to ensure smooth product launches or factory changes.
* Managing end-to-end packaging development, including process and legal checks, for both development projects and legal updates.
* Organising industrial trials, communicating results, and following up on actions and improvements.
* Ensuring compliance with production, quality, legal, and customer requirements.
Requirements:
* Experience in FMCG, Food manufacturing, Food transformation, or NPD.
* Strong communication skills; able to lead customer meetings confidently.
* Flexibility in working hours and willingness to travel to client sites.
* Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
* Self-motivated with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
* Educational background in food technology or food science (preferably a degree).
Benefits:
* Competitive salary.
* Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:30 (site-based role).
* Market-leading products and sector presence.
* Company pension (6% employer contribution, subject to contract).
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
* Company sick pay.
* 4x Death in Service benefit.
* Wellbeing initiatives, including free eye tests and a £90 contribution towards prescription lenses.
Next Steps:
If interested, please email sarah.elliott@thrivegroup.co.uk.
Thrive Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. If you do not hear within 7 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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