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R&D Project Manager

Employer
McCormick UK Limited
Location
Peterborough
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
13 Oct 2021

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Engineering, Technical, Scientist
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

This is an exciting development for McCormick. Construction is underway for a new condiment manufacturing facility, opening in 2021.

R&D Project Manager
Peterborough

This is a great opportunity to join our team, bringing to life our future condiments manufacturing facility, located in Peterborough, UK. Our vision is to build a sustainable, innovative McCormick factory-of-the-future to support our Flavour Solutions customers.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Represent the site R&D Function on all appropriate internal forums
  • Lead vertical start-ups and validation of products on new lines, manage all trial projects
  • Manage the build/fit out of all R&D facilities at PBO to completion/going live inclusive of Pilot Plant, Sensory area, Show Kitchen, Development Kitchen, R&D Lab and R&D Office
  • Engage with the wider McCormick community to promote/share and investigate innovation and best practise
  • Ensure the possession of all comparative data for validation purposes
  • Manage the R&D change log with the new site team
  • Lead technology platform programs for condiments and owns the technology roadmap, driving future technologies, ensure the Company’s fit for the future
  • Lead the Qualification of the Process and Packaging element for the site plan
  • Represent R&D on all future proposals/phases for the site installation/expansion
  • Manages team development linked to processing technology
  • Scout for New technologies to influence our lines of the future

CANDIDATE PROFILE

 

  • Food Science/Food Technology or Engineering degree qualified, or equivalent
  • R&D / Product management experience
  • Previous experience of working in a food manufacturing (condiments and sauce) highly preferred
  • Proven Track record of managing large capital projects
  • Lean Six Sigma Green or Black belt preferred
  • Ability to build successful customer relationships
  • Thorough understanding of consumer insights and product technical delivery, ability to understand and help develop a robust customer brief and deliver using available or required insight tools 
  • A successful communicator with ability to negotiate and influence outside of the organization
  • Ability to recognize and manage the diversity of their tasks and facilitate competing requirements of different internal and external customers
  • Ability to apply business acumen and reflect strategic priorities to everyday R&D agenda
  • Ability to work autonomously and to supervise the work of a team

COMPANY

At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities, and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.

Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With 12,400 employees around the world and more than $5 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.

While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 50 locations in 27 countries and 135 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America with recognized brands including Schwartz.

At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion, and collaboration based on the highest ethical values. 

Company

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavour and one of the most respected and familiar names in the industry.

 Our UK business manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavourful products for retail outlets, food manufacturers, and foodservice businesses. We create flavours for a wide range of applications, such as beverages, snacks, dairy, bakery/confectionary, savoury, performance nutrition, and health.

 McCormick has had a presence in the UK for nearly 40 years. We have three sites across the country–our EMEA headquarters in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, our new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and innovation centre in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (which is on track to become McCormick’s first Net Zero carbon building), and our plant in Littleborough, Greater Manchester.

 Our brands and our products are trusted sources of flavour in millions of kitchens across the country—in homes and in restaurants. Our UK brand portfolio includes Schwartz, Frank’s RedHot, French’s, Cholula, Herdez, and OLD BAY.

Partnerships with farmers and suppliers around the world allow us to provide great-tasting, quality spices with consistency that you can trust. Our herbs and spices come from around 80 different countries.

 At McCormick, we stand together for the future of flavour, and we bring that commitment to work every day in the UK to deliver top-tier growth and quality from our global business.

 As a people-first culture, we encourage development in many ways, respect everyone’s differences and contributions, and do what’s right to develop our employees and to better our world.

 

Company info
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Location
Haddenham Business Park
Pegasus Way
Haddenham
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP17 8LB
United Kingdom

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