Product Change Manager
- Employer
- Refresco
- Location
- Kegworth, Derby
- Salary
- £40-45k, plus car allowance, bonus, life assurance, healthcare, pension.
- Closing date
- 7 Jan 2019
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Development, Other Job Function, Planning, Supply Chain
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details
Welcome to our world… Let’s Go!
About the Role
As our Product Change (Commercialisation) Manager you will report into the Head of Business Projects and be responsible for the 'end to end' management of the product lifecycle. You will lead, through a team (3 direct reports, 2 dotted line reports), all projects through the NPD funnel, and be responsible for the final delivery of all product related changes within the business.
You will co-develop and maintain effective project management and governance processes which are aligned across the relevant business functions. You will manage the team of Product Lifecycle Managers to ensure projects are effectively managed through all stages of the lifecycle; from initial concept development through to final evaluation and eventual de-list. You'll be accountable for defining product launch framework and the associated critical path milestones.
About You
You will be an accomplished Project Manager, Commercialisation Manager or Supply Chain Manager, with a proven track record in managing product change within an FMCG manufacturing environment. You'll be highly comfortable working in a large business and working across multiple business functions. Ideally you'll have multi-site project management ecperience and able to co-ordinate remote teams and stakeholders including Plant General Manager's, Commercial Managers, Procurement and NPD.
It would be fantastic if you have experience of retailer private label and have a Prince 2 or GANTT Qualification - however these are not essential.
Salary & Benefits
The salary for this role is £40,000 - £45,000 plus £6,400 car allowance. We also offer an annual bonus incentive and a good company pension scheme, as well as private healthcare, 4x basic salary life assurance plus 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays.
Who are we?
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're thirsty for more and growing fast which is why we recently invested £1.25 billion in expanding our global manufacturing footprint making us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from 59 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started…
Our UK Business unit has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsburys, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacture for branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it’s packed in Cartons, PET, Aseptic PET or Cans, we ensure that our products are not only manufactured to the highest quality standards but they get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high profile customers.
Company
Refresco
Our drinks on every table. That's our vision. So, yes, it's safe to say we're ambitious. We're thirsty for more, constantly looking to the future. To new products, new services, new markets, new customers. Through our people applying our core values of ‘Responsible’, ‘Entrepreneurial’, ‘Excellent’, ‘Market Driven’ and ‘Innovative’ we have grown substantially since 1999 and we will continue to be successful.
Refresco is the world’s largest independent bottler soft drinks and fruit juices for retailers and branded customers. With production in Europe, North America and Mexico our global sourcing and local R&D capabilities offer an almost unlimited variety of products, manufactured to customer specifications and requirements.
Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from 100% fruit juices, vegetable juices, nectars, water and water +, CSD (carbonated soft drinks), energy and sports drinks, seasonal and speciality drinks and RTD (ready to drink) tea carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans and glass.
In addition to the efficiency of our bottling processes, we can also provide our customers with total supply chain solutions – from planning and sourcing of raw materials and packaging through to warehousing and transportation.
We focus on providing high customer service levels as well as core innovations through the introduction of new packages, flavours and varieties of soft drinks and fruit juices. In (co-)designing new products, we share extensive knowledge of market trends, local consumer preferences, product formulas, raw materials, and new production technologies.
We are able to develop new concepts and bring these to market in an extremely short time frame.
Our head office is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
In January 2018 Refresco announced completion of the acquisition of the bottling activities of Cott Beverages.
Refresco Beverages UK
In the UK, Refresco Beverages UK has our headquarters in Kegworth, Derbyshire, employs 1800 people across 6 sites (Bridgwater, Kegworth, Nelson, Bondgate, Wrexham & Macduff). We work with all the leading UK retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison's, Sainsbury, ALDI and Lidl to produce their private labels and with branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. We have packaging capability in Cartons, PET, Aseptic PET and Cans.
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