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NPD Project Manager

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Norwich, Norfolk
Salary
to £40,000 pro rata
Closing date
21 Nov 2024
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Contract Type
Interim
Function
Development
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Known for delivering high-quality, nutritious, and sustainable products throughout the UK and worldwide. As part of a globally trusted brand, the company offers a broad range of products, considered much loved family favourites. They benefit from advanced plants located across Europe ensuring superior freshness and quality in every product.

About the NPD Project Manager job

The purpose of your role will be the primary contact for NPD, managing projects from proposal to launch. With your expertise in production processes and raw materials, you'll lead line trials, product evaluations, and present trials for customer approval. You'll also identify product opportunities to meet customer goals and strengthen the company’s market position.

Key tasks

Support commercial teams in product development discussions with key customer accounts, driving innovation and offering consultancy support. Manage cross-functional and intercompany project teams to deliver new products for the UK market, leveraging existing production capabilities. Create detailed product development briefs, including attributes, target costs, formats, and packaging, ensuring alignment with factory capabilities and approved concepts. Own and report on the critical path of development projects, managing expectations and keeping stakeholders informed internally and externally, while acting as the main point of contact for customer development teams.

About You

  • Experience with project management & executing new launches into Retail & Food Service customers.
  • Comfortable being customer facing to support in development meetings and liaising upon key projects.
  • Ability to run internal project calls with key stakeholders, being clear and precise whilst documenting actions & feedback for the wider commercial function.
  • Experience of running project and product launches within FMCG essential to this role.

More details

The NPD Project Manager job (ref:8780) is based in Norwich, Norfolk, and is a contract job for 3-4 months. It is paying up to £40,000 pro rata according to your experience.

The package includes 22 days holiday + bank holidays, 4% employer pension, and two days’ work from home.

The working hours are Monday to Friday, Office Hours.

Alternate 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 | Remote Jobs | Hybrid Jobs | WFH jobs | Work From Home jobs

The site location is Norwich, City of Norfolk is commutable from Kings Lynn, Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, Cromer & Thetford

 

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

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

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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