Trainee Npd Developer

2 weeks ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Symingtons Full time
We are looking to recruit a
Trainee NPD Developer to join our team at our Dartmouth Way
Site. The role is a full-time role, working 40 hours per week.

Scope of the role

  • To provide a sitebased product development resource based in Leeds, supporting the development department with NPD, EPD, Value engineering projects as well as other business or customer related projects
  • Involved in all aspects of bringing a new product to market from the initial concept right through to product launch.
  • Exposure to different product categories such as home baking kits, noodle, rice, croutons, breadsticks, and pasta snack pots.
  • Opportunity for development and training
  • Work as part of a cross functional team and will liaise with Technical, Procurement, Marketing, Account and Commercial managers & Production departmentsn experience across various retail customers, and includes branded product development as well as exposure to the American/Australian markets

Key Responsibilities

  • Taking an active development role for account briefs with developer support. Including ideation, recipe development, benchmarking, coordinating taste panels and product submissions along with supporting paperwork.
  • Assisting across full development process from concept through to launch recipe make up, tasting and testing to customer requirements.
  • Recipe development and reformulation to achieve a product that meets customer expectations and that is financially and technically feasible, supported by NPD developers
  • Supporting NPD developers in account specific tasks
  • Completing account specific documentation and project work (Sample Submission Forms, NPDTT's, QAS's)
  • Communication with internal departments and external customer/supplier contacts where required
  • Operating internal systems and processes for costings and nutrition with accuracy
  • Researching and observing trends and ideas to bring into concept development
  • Undertaking relevant project tasks when required
  • HFSS scoring/input and calculation
  • Conducting shelflife panels and updating relevant paperwork
  • Carry out end of life micro testing to ensure the product is safe at end of life and understand shelflife parameters.
  • Nutritional testing of new products to ensure that the nutritional composition of a new product meets the requirements of the retailers' nutritional policies and/or fulfils nutritional claims.
  • Cooking instruction development for all new products to ensure that a food to safe to consume and of a high quality for consumers when cooked.
  • Collect raw materials from the factory when needed and ensure sample deliveries are located.
  • Visiting retailers and shopping to support sample preparations or customer meeting refreshments as required by the business.
  • Managing sample requests for various retailers and brands. Preparing and dispatching accordingly and to customer timescales
  • Respond to retailer requests for samples for testing, Brandbank, photography, exhibitions, awards etc.
  • Assisting and supporting in the smooth running of internal meetings and Brand & OL presentations where products are being shown
  • Requirement to assist development technologist at external customer meetings where required
  • Organise and attend factory trials and ensure output of the trial is documented and communicated to the business.

Other Information

  • Always demonstrates good housekeeping practices & due diligence
  • Work to our business core values
  • Undertakes other duties to support the department
  • Responsible for own health & safety
  • Understand the importance of food safety
  • Full driving licence to support team in shopping, visiting stores and customers
  • All relevant training provided**_

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
£25,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Casual dress
  • Company events
  • Company pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee discount
  • Free parking
  • Health & wellbeing programme
  • Onsite parking
  • Referral programme

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • LEEDS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

  • GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in LEEDS

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