NPD Manager
- Employer
- b3 jobs
- Location
- South Coast UK
- Salary
- £40,000 - £45,000
- Closing date
- 2 Jun 2019
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Development
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details
NPD Manager
Job ref: 62186 | £40,000 - £45,000 | South Coast UK
The company
This food manufacturer provides specialist foods and drinks that are frozen, chilled and ambient. A relatively new company that is part of a larger and well-established group, they are looking to expand and become the market leader in their food product sector, therefore this is a very exciting time to join the team.
The job
As NPD Manager, you will oversee the delivery of all development projects from concept to launch by the development team to agreed timelines and commercial targets.
You will identify and evaluate food trends that support the business vision and customer strategy, define and lead the product development strategy, manage and optimise the development process whilst coaching & developing the team to maximise their creative potential together with delivering projects to agreed timelines and commercial aspirations.
Your experience
You will ideally be educated to a degree level in a food science, food technology or nutrition related discipline and possess strong food product development experience, ideally within products such as ready meals, sauces, drinks, soups or similar. You will have a background in leading and developing an NPD team/department, be passionate about food innovation and can demonstrate an understanding of flavours, cuisines, ingredients and how to make good tasting products.
More details
The NPD Manager job is based in the South Coast UK region and is paying £40,000 - £45,000 according to individual skills and previous experience. The working hours are Monday to Friday.
How to apply
If this really sounds like you and you want to be considered for the NPD Manager job, please click the Apply button.
Or, alternatively you can apply directly for this job, by emailing me, Emily Snaith, emily@b3jobs.co.uk quoting job reference 62186.
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b3 jobs is a professional, friendly and progressive food recruitment consultancy established in 2000 dedicated to the food manufacturing industry. We are a market leader for permanent jobs within food and drink manufacturing throughout the UK. All of our consultants have considerable experience in recruitment so you can be confident that they will have your best interests at heart when finding the perfect job for you.
We deal with food jobs covering product development / NPD, quality assurance / QA, technical, process, production, operations, planning, supply, sales, account management, engineering, microbiology, food technology, specifications, marketing, logistics, purchasing, hygiene and auditing. We cover all job levels including Assistants, Technologists, Technicians, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Managers and Directors.
Alternative job titles
New Product Development Manager | Head of NPD | Head of Product Development | Senior NPD Technologist | NPD Supervisor | Senior Development Technologist | Food Product Development Jobs | Hampshire
Company
Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,
Our core values are always:
- to find the very best job for you - not us!
- to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
- to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you
We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!
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- Telephone
- 01435 866000
- Location
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33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB
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