NPD MANAGER – WEST SUSSEX

NPD Manager – West Sussex

Competitive Salary + package

The Company:

As a family owned business based in West Sussex, this well-established fresh food business aims to keep the family-values at the heart of everything they do, focussing on the development and support of their people, the communities they work in and the needs of their customers. 

They now have ambitious plans to continue their level of growth, both in the UK and Europe and innovate through development of new products.

This is an exciting, newly created opportunity for an experienced NPD professional with a strong project background, to take on a wide range of NPD related projects across the business.

The Role:

• Project manage NPD through a staged Development Process owning each project delivery critical path internally.
• Ensure all relevant information is available for customer interaction.
• Manage key stakeholders’ involvement with appropriate accountability and responsibilities of task and sub process.
• Responsibility for ensuring all testing is planned a signed off throughout the project.
• Develop and implement clear communication plans acting as the primary line of communication between the project and the rest of the business.

Role Requirements

The candidate must be experienced managing projects in NPD roles in food production to high care standards. Ability to scope, plan and budget projects, including risk management and ROI. Able to be persuasive and to ensure team members deliver on time is critical. Excellent organisational planning skills with experience in change management.

If you feel you have the right skills and attributes to be considered for this position forward your CV today for more information or call Lucy on 0113 205 4970.

Any direct applications will be forwarded to Clear Edge as the retained recruitment partner.