Product Development Manager

4 days ago

Fakenham, United Kingdom Daniels Chilled Foods Ltd Full time

**The Role**

Hain Daniels are currently recruiting for an NPD Manager at our Fakenham site. Fakenham is our dedicated Meat Free facility, producing vegetarian products under license for Linda McCartney Foods.

The role of the NPD Manager is to manage the day to day activity of the Plant Based Meals Development team to support the Head of NPD and ensuring the delivery of 'best in class’ commercially viable products from an approved product brief to launch. Therole ensures NPD & factory processes used are in line with the needs of the business to continually meet, improve & exceed our customer expectations

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead the Concept & Process Development teams to develop best in class commercially viable products
- Management of all NPD projects from receipt of project brief through to launch sign off using appropriate NPD tracking tools. This involves working closely with key stakeholders in Commercial / Operations / Procurement / Planning / Technical / Marketingteams.
- To manage, motivate and develop the Development team
- Monitor & manage team resource across both Concept & Process functions to distribute workload evenly and ensuring team flexibility to support 'peaks & troughs’ in workload/teams
- To manage all cost associated with development to ensure departmental budget met
- To develop, nurture and manage the relationship between the Hain Daniels Group and applicable Retailers through the effective communication with the Retailer Product Developers and Retailer Technologists throughout the development process.

**What you will need for the role / what it will take**
- Food related degree or course and basic culinary skill
- Minimum 5 years product development experience with project and people management skills essential
- Previous experience of leading & managing direct report(s) essential
- Excellent organisational skills with a clear ability to delegate & prioritise

**What can we offer you?**
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holiday days
- Option to purchase additional annual leave
- A day off work to support our charity partners
- Flexible working options
- Pension
- Medical benefit and access to a 'Wellbeing' portal
- And access to a HUB that offers many discounts from a range of suppliers and retailers

**About Us**

The Hain Daniels Group is one of the UK's leading food companies. We create food and drink products with natural goodness at their core. We're the business behind a host of household brands - Hartley's jams and jellies, Sun-Pat peanut butters, New CoventGarden Soup Co., Linda McCartney's meat free food, and Yorkshire Provender to name a few. Nearly half of our business is private label - we create quality freshly prepared fruit and juices, desserts, soups, sweet spreads and meat free products for our retailpartners.

**O **ur Vision**

To make it easier for everyone to lead a healthier, balanced lifestyle. Without our great team of people, this vision couldn't be our reality.

**Top Talent across the UK**

Over our 6 sites up and down the UK, we employ circa 1,300 people in roles within Production, Supply Chain, Product Development, Sales and Marketing, and through to our Finance, HR, IT and beyond. Each of our colleagues is vital to our continued success.That's why we target the best talent, and help to develop them through the ranks. In fact, almost a third of our vacancies were internal promotions and transfers last year.

**Our Business behaviours**

As a business we strive to promote from within and our underlying business behaviours really enable us to drive this strategic objective. We believe we can provide an opportunity for all individuals to grow and achieve with Hain Daniels through demonstratingcore behaviours such as ambition & energy, collaborative working, honest communication, innovation, delivering excellent quality, embracing versatility and equality

**If Hain Daniels sounds like the company you'd like to contribute your energy and enthusiasm towards, and come on an exciting journey with us, then we can't wait to hear from you

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