NPD Technologist
- Employer
- b3 jobs
- Location
- Wigan, Greater Manchester
- Salary
- £28,000 - £30,000
- Closing date
- 24 Feb 2025
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Development
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details
NPD Technologist
£28,000 - £30,000
Wigan. Greater Manchester
Ingredients
Job ref: 8840
The company
This role is working for a successful, BRC AA Graded food manufacturer. The business produces high-quality food products and exceptional service to enable their food manufacturing customers to innovate and increase productivity without compromising on quality.
About the NPD Technologist job
The purpose of your role will be to support the NPD Manager with the development and innovation of products, liaising with all departments to ensure products and services are supplied within agreed specifications whilst keeping up to date with key development trends within the food industry as well as developing and maintaining excellent relationships with customers, external contacts, and colleagues.
Key tasks
- Create ideas for future trends from internal and external briefs in line with the business strategy.
- Prepare recipes and action plans with the NPD Manager using nutritional information and specifications.
- Prepare bench scale samples, review with customers, and organise shipment.
- Contribute to HACCP and hygiene, GMP for the site and NPD and organise and lead factory trials.
About You
Minimum of 3-5 years in food science or a related role, with strong knowledge of ingredient functionality, food processes, HACCP protocols, and hands-on experience in product development, research, and testing of new food products.
- Proven ability to present ideas, products, and trends effectively to diverse stakeholders, along with strong interpersonal skills that facilitate collaboration with cross-functional teams and customer interactions.
- Creativity in generating innovative ideas to meet customer needs, combined with attention to detail for precise documentation and a proactive approach to resolving challenges within a collaborative team environment.
- Ability to continuously monitor market trends and emerging opportunities to inform product development and strategic planning for new initiatives.
More details
The NPD Technologist job (ref:8840) is based in Wigan and is paying £28,000 - £30,000 per annum and offers a great benefits package.
The working hours are Monday to Thursday 08:00 – 16:30 and Friday 07:30 – 15:00.
The site is in Wigan, Greater Manchester and is commutable from Manchester, Bolton, Warrington, Preston, Ormskirk, St Helens, Chorley and Bury, along with other areas of Lancashire and Merseyside.
Alternate job titles
New Product Development Technologist | NPD Technician | Food Product Developer | Food Product Development | Food Science Jobs | Product Formulation Technologist | Food Manufacturing Jobs | Food NPD 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!
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United Kingdom
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