NPD Manager
- Employer
- b3 jobs
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Salary
- £40,000 - £60,000
- Closing date
- 23 Jan 2025
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Development
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details
We are always on the lookout for NPD Managers to fill regular vacancies on behalf of our valued manufacturing clients across the UK. As an NPD Manager, your role will focus on driving the development and delivery of innovative products, ensuring they meet customer expectations and align with the company’s quality and compliance standards.
An NPD (New Product Development) Manager plays a pivotal role in bringing innovative products to life, from concept to launch. They lead cross-functional teams to ensure product designs meet market trends, customer expectations, and business goals. This involves managing the entire development process, including research, prototype creation, testing, and production planning. NPD Managers work closely with marketing, sales, and technical teams to align product development with company strategy while ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards. Their goal is to deliver successful, market-ready products that drive growth and customer satisfaction.
We welcome applicants at all levels, from graduate candidates to highly experienced NPD Managers. Salaries typically range from £40,000 to £60,000 per year.
Register today to take the first step toward an exciting and rewarding career as an NPD Manager!
Typical Key tasks
- Oversee the end-to-end product development process, including timelines, budgets, and resource allocation to ensure on-time and successful launches.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams such as R&D, marketing, sales, and production to align product development with business objectives and market trends.
- Analyse customer needs, industry trends, and competitor products to develop innovative concepts and maintain a competitive edge.
- Ensure all products meet quality, safety, and regulatory standards while addressing feedback and resolving issues throughout the development cycle.
A client may look for
- You will be educated to degree level in food science or related subject.
- Qualified in food legislation, and sensory training and thermal processing.
- Experience of managing NPD team with multiple customers and projects.
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
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.
- Website
- https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 01435 866000
- Location
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Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
United Kingdom
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