Head of Npd

4 weeks ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom 2 Sisters Food Group Full time

**Head of NPD & Process**

**2SFG Meals - The Pizza Factory Nottingham**

**Monday to Friday - On Site**

**Competitive Salary + Company Benefits**

2 Sisters Food Group are seeking an experienced and creative NPD professional to lead an established NPD and Process team at our Pizza operation in Nottingham.

**About Us**:
When you join 2 Sisters, you will become part of the UK’s largest food manufacturer, with an annual turnover of £3billion+, over 13,500 people and covering more than 18 sites.

This role sits within our Meals division, where we live by our mantra of “Delighting Customers with Every Bite”. We have 5 sites creating over 500 different products to feed our nation, from ready meals to iced fingers we love our food, and we love our people.

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, and we couldn’t do it without our team. It is a team where everyone counts we empower you with trust and give you the freedom to deliver. We ‘do what we say’ and accept accountability which allows our customers to trust us to create great tasting, innovative and quality meal solutions.

**About The Role**:
Reporting into the Insight and Innovation Director, the Head of NPD & Process will be responsible for managing and motivating the NPD and Process teams as well as spearheading all innovation and product & packaging development.

This will involve ensuring that the NPD & EPD pipeline delivers against business strategy and that the teams on site are managed, motivated, and provided with the tools required to excel in their roles. As the head of the team, you will be expected to work with the rest of the SLT to ensure that all new products are not just innovative, but operationally viable.
- **Additional duties of the role will include**:_
- Champion product quality, ensuring best quality vs value ratio.
- Own the NPD costing process from concept to launch ensuring margins are not eroded through the process.
- Build collaborative customer relationships. Taking the lead with our key customer.
- Ensure 2SFG meals division proactively drives the innovation agenda.
- Ensure innovation is insight driven.
- Create collaborative relationships with Developers, Chefs, Technologists and Buyers
- Proactively review progress & identify areas of underperformance and implement relevant corrective actions.
- Work closely with Pizza Commercial, Category, Operations and Technical leadership teams to ensure realisation and effective implementation of innovation projects and insight led strategy.
- Provide customers with Food trends & product insights.
- Work closely we key suppliers to get first to market ingredient and packaging innovation in our products.

This will be a busy, rewarding role where no two days will be the same. It will offer opportunities to work with some of the most well-known retailers in the country and contribute to the growth of a premium product category for the company.

**About You**:
To excel in this Head of NPD & Process role, you will be able to demonstrate:

- An established background in a similar role, ideally within Chilled Food Manufacturing.
- Previous experience of leading NPD/Process teams.
- The ability to develop products with end-to-end solutions in mind.
- Demonstrable team leadership experience.
- Strong customer facing and stakeholder management skills.
- Commercial awareness and an understanding of innovation viability.
- Excellent communication, influencing and motivational skills.

In return for your hard work and dedication 2 Sisters Food Group are offering an excellent starting salary alongside a competitive package including 35 days holiday and the opportunity to influence a market leader during a time of real growth.

The interview will process will consist of a call from our recruitment team, followed by an onsite meeting and a formal interview that will involve a project or presentation.
- At 2 Sisters are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and commit to fairness and equality for all employees and applicants. This includes age, disability, neurodiversity, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Canteen
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Nottingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: JO-2404-6363

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