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**PLEASE NOTE: This is a Fixed Term Contract for maximum 6 months.**

**PrepWorld is a fresh cut fruit manufacturing company in Northfleet, Gravesend looking for our next New Product Development (NPD) Coordinator. The role involves s**upporting the NPD Manager on NPD projects for both current PrepWorld customers, and potential new customers, enabling key deadlines to be hit, with a key focus on project tracking and communication throughout the NPD process

**Duties**:

- Assist with relevant sign off from required departments throughout the entire process to launch.
- Working closely with key internal stakeholders to improve and assist fundamental improvements to their business processes.
- Support delivering good service and managing expectations across the business & be recognised as part of NPD Team and wider Commercial team.
- NPD Lead for Large, well known retailers such as Morrisons, Co-op and Costco
- Attendance of customer tenders for Morrisons, Co-op and Costco, covering other accounts in the absence of the NPD Manager
- Support of all NPD across all accounts
- Collaborative approach towards customer tenders working with NAMs, category, procurement and Technical, ensuring all briefs are time managed and all stakeholders have been provided sufficient time to be able to complete their tasks.
- Work across the PrepWorld functions (including Technical / Sales / Production / Packaging / Procurement) to help support new product samples and support necessary trials when and where appropriate
- Support for all NPD sampling requiring keen attention to detail ensuring quality and coordination with NPD Manager and relevant Customer Technologist/Account Managers/Production Managers/Procurement Managers
- Support sourcing all raw materials required involving liaising with the packaging team and suppliers, procurement team, production and collecting additional materials off site as required for samples
- Raising of dummy orders, ensuring product is made as requested, checking quality of product. Liaising with production on issues
- Liaise with Packaging, Technical, Production, Planning and Procurement on arranging for availability of all components for factory trials.
- Pre-production trials attendance and support., liaising with production and planning, ensuring product is made to the line standard provided. Writing of report
- Support NPD build document control, logging all versions of products developed by the NPD team including calculating QUIDs
- Ensure the key NPD tracker activities are achieved, update NPD projects tracker regularly, provide information to all internal parties
- Support departmental continuous improvement initiatives to increase innovation, implement better ways of working and reduce time to market.
- Collaborate on the management of the development process from concept origination to product handover meeting assisting the meeting of all deadlines both internally and externally.
- Assist with the planning and management of the department’s workload to ensure that deliverables are met with high quality.
- Continuously review the project status of all products and take corrective action if product/project moves off track.
- Working with the Technical team to track progress of new fruit trials in order to develop new mixes.
- Support pre-artwork meetings
- Supporting category and quarterly reviews by collecting relevant materials
- Write product submission documents in conjunction with tender process as required
- HACCP sign off and meeting attendance when covering in the absence of the NPD Manager Support on large NPD/Category projects such as innovation day/mood boards, assisting on the co-ordination of samples and purchasing of products and presentation of these
- Supporting internal and external benchmarking sessions by accumulating relevant samples
- Conduct store visits and reviews, reporting finding to Category team
- Keep up to date with latest fruit trends
- Providing Yammer updates on NPD related topics
- Responsible for the maintenance of NPD work area
- and more

**Who we are looking for**:
**What we provide in return**:
**Hours and Days of work**:
Monday to Friday, 08:00 - 17:00

Type: FTC (6 months)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract

**Salary**: Up to £30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: NPDC1222