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NPD Manager

Employer
AIM Recruitment Ltd
Location
East Midlands Region
Salary
Up to £35,000
Closing date
17 May 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Development, General Management
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

NPD Manager

An exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and driven candidate to join a well established food manufacturer has arisen.

You will be responsible for supporting the business as it goes through substantial growth in both current and emerging categories. This will be achieved through design and development of new and existing product ranges. You must have exceptional customer relationship skills and be experienced in creating commercially viable concepts.

You will challenge the operations and process functions to improve product quality and further enhance the company reputation.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Enable and support the team, allowing them to lead the market through the launch of quality new products, whilst promoting true innovation and speed to market.
  • Utilising your extensive working knowledge of the product categories, the challenges and opportunities, and also recognise potential opportunities for development and innovate to capitalise on these.
  • Managing the team of Development Chefs and Technologists.
  • Remain in constant contact and working closely with the Finance, Purchasing, Commercial, Production and Technical departments of each site to ensure consistency through development.
  • Understand the business and its USPs to develop products that translate effectively once scaled up.
  • Work with customer brand values to enable effective translation into product proposition.
  • Where required, liaise with the relevant customer contact, ensuring a good quality service is provided at all times.

To be considered for this position you must:

  • Have experience working within a similar role, ideally in a fast paced chilled manufacturing environment.
  • Be educated to degree level within a food related discipline desirable.
  • Have a natural flair and passion for food. 
  • Be a strong communicator, with excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Hold good time management and be self-motivated with the ability to work to deadlines and under pressure.
  • Have good influencing skills, and able to build strong relationships.
  • Be confident working with customers face to face. 

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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