Validation Manager

3 weeks ago

Kettering Northamptonshire, United Kingdom Little Moons Full time

Process Validation Lead – Interim Responsible to: Innovation & Sustainability Director
Hours : 5 days a week / 9 month contract ending Feb 2025


Little Moons are frozen and chilled mochi, a fusion of Eastern and Western cuisine – soft and chewy rice flour dough wrapped around balls of ice cream, cheesecake, or chocolate ganache to create a distinctive, bite-sized, and delicious dessert that’s bursting with flavour.

The product’s roots are in high-end restaurants, but over the last five years retail packs have swept the ice cream category in grocery and food service.

Little Moons has rapidly established mochi, and snacking ice cream, across Europe. The perfect candidate will be an authority on transferring manufacturing processes to new sites whilst maintaining consistent product quality. This role will work with a core process group and cross-functional commissioning team, utilising their expertise and findings to direct commissioning activity and ultimately validate the new manufacturing processes to launch our new site with excellence


Manage the product and process validation workstream for the product portfolio transfer from one manufacturing site to another, delivering against the defined brand and business requirements.
Provide technical product and process expertise for the project; Project manage and execute (through a team of Technologists) commissioning and validation, issuing protocols, managing activity on the shop floor and leading post-trial assessments.
Troubleshoot issues highlighted during commissioning, working closely with Operations and Engineering teams to find solutions.
Provide regular communications on project progress to the project team and key stakeholders.
Input KPI data and present daily commissioning meetings progress of plan and validation.
Handover product and process validation to the site team and support Technical on factory specification and Quality Standards documentation creation.
Ensure completion of validation testing and paperwork for future audit compliance.
Design, execute and evaluate the product data collection for knowledge transfer of remaining product lines. To include process mapping of current equipment / processes, and the scientific analysis of ingredients, intermediaries, and finished products.

Lead process development experience in a food manufacturing environment
Experience of commissioning a large capital plant
Experience of working with ice cream, general dairy and/or fresh desserts including dough / pastry is preferable
Experienced process interim that has led process teams
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in food science, technology or engineering
A science and data led approach
High level of statistical analysis capability
Proven project management skills
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