Graduate Npd Technologist

We are recruiting for a Graduate NPD Technologist to join a Food manufacturing business in County Durham.

Scope of the role
- To provide a site-based product development resource based in in County Durham 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.
- 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 departments at multi-site level.
- Hands on 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 Technologists
- Supporting NPD developers in account specific tasks
- Researching and observing trends and ideas to bring into concept development.
- HFSS scoring/input and calculation.
- Conducting shelf-life panels and updating relevant paperwork
- Carry out end of life micro testing to ensure the product is safe at end of life and understand shelf-life 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

Experience required:

- Food related degree or similar qualification with some experience in the food industry.
- Creative, pro-active problem solver, reliable, organised, respectful and motivated.

On Offer:

- £25,000
- 33 days annual leave
- Opportunity for further training and development
- Hybrid Working