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Product Development Manager

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
West Midlands
Salary
up to £38,000
Closing date
4 Feb 2022

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Development
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Product Development Manager

Job ref: 7963 | up to £38,000 | West Midlands

The company

You will be working with a well-established food manufacturer of chilled and frozen products.

The business is proud of its reputation of bringing innovative food solutions to their customers, receiving multiple awards and recognition within their product sector.

The job

The purpose of your role as Product Development Manager is to

  • Manage and organise the development team to ensure the daily planned objectives are met.
  • Manage and deal with any personnel issues within the team.
  • Ensure the hygiene and organisation of the development kitchen.
  • Ensure that the daily taste panel is well organised.
  • Be responsible for all product development administration.
  • Ensure the development office is well organised and efficient.
  • Communicate and arrange any potential raw material samples.
  • Support with research and development of new product concepts relevant to the customer needs. 

About you

Key skills and experience for the Product Development Manager include:

  • Experience working in a food product development role, a strong development chef background at a senior level would be preferred.
  • Comfortable with handling and tasting all types of food.
  • Education/qualifications in a culinary or food technology discipline is highly desirable.
  • Experience in supervising staff or leading a team.
  • IT literate including working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

More details

The Product Development Manager job is based in West Midlands and is paying up to £38,000 according to your experience.

The working hours are Monday to Friday, 8.30 am – 5 pm.

How to apply

To be considered for the Product Development Manager job, please click the Apply button.

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Alternate job titles

NPD Manager | New Product Development Manager | Senior NPD Technologist | NPD Supervisor | Senior Development Technologist | Senior Development Chef | Development Chef Manager | Food Development Jobs

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!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

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https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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