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NPD Manager

Employer
AIM Recruitment Ltd
Location
Essex
Salary
£45,000 + Bonus and benefits
Closing date
26 Mar 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Development
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Product Development Manager

A Major supplier of Ambient healthy snacks to a variety of UK supermarkets are on the look out for an experienced Product Development manager to join their team based in Essex.

This is superb, senior, hands on role within the business and is an exceptional opportunity to advance your career.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate success within multiple food sectors, experience of working with different business units and have experience of working with a multitude of retailers.

Key skills

  • Experience of working within the framework of supermarket product development procedures
  • Experience of working with sensory panels
  • Exposure to the retail technical libraries and building specifications
  • Experience of working with Nutritional values when submitting specifications

Desired Experience

  • Food labelling regulations
  • Major retailer food productions standards
  • Major retailer Food production standards
  • Exposure to HACCP

If this role sounds as if it could be of interest, please do get in contact.

Company

We know, you’ve heard it all before, the same old same old: we’re great, use us, extensive databases … blah, blah, blah.  And just before you switch off you’re last thought on the subject may well be “whatever, recruitment is recruitment, right?”.

Wrong.

Anyone who spends long enough trawling a database and ‘pings’ enough CVs off will eventually make a placement. They’ll consider that to be “recruitment”.

On the receiving end as a candidate you will be bewildered why you are apparently “suitable” for such a wide variety of jobs nobody has thought to discuss with you – being local and available doesn’t mean appropriate.

On the receiving end as a client you will invariably be left feeling you could have done as good a job, if not better, yourself without having to engage with the irritating so-and-so passing off the CVs as a job well done.  That’s not recruitment as we recognise it.

We believe “recruitment” means US finding the RIGHT PERSON for the RIGHT JOB.  Occasionally that’s all we’ll present a client with, the one person they’ll want to hire, but more often than not we’ll provide a choice of up to three candidates who for different reasons that we can substantiate through knowledge of the candidate, their ethos and character would meet expectations.

How do we do it?  The team are all trained in food industry know-how by Alan Donaldson, MD.  With first-hand experience as both a hiring manager and interim manager Alan is in a unique position to understand exactly what it takes to deliver a mutually successful placement and he has instilled this within the team.

As the golfing great Gary Player said “the more I practice the luckier I get” – it’s not through luck when AIM consultants find themselves with multiple job offers being made and roles created to accommodate shortlisted candidates. When clients can’t bring themselves to turn away such a good match you know that’s a job well done and that makes us feel as great as it makes you feel!

So, does it work?  Yes it does.  AIM has gone from strength to strength over the last 12 years developing an excellent network of contacts, repeat business and personal recommendations from clients and candidates alike.   If you’re not amongst those who’ve tried and tested this breath of fresh air in the stale world of recruitment maybe now’s the time to do so.

Get in touch and try AIM Recruitment for yourself.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0115 923 4651
Location
27 Rectory Road
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG2 6BE
GB

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