NPD Recipe Coordinator

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom SSP Group Full time

About the Role

The Main Purpose of the Role:

To ensure the required ingredients and recipes meet nutritional compliance requirements within the Nutritics system, including regular checks and maintenance.

Maintain an accurate recipe database and coordinate across departments to ensure timely and accurate recipe updates for product launches.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Work with the NPD Recipe Team and Executive Chefs Team to cross-check recipes for input into Nutritics, ensuring all technical aspects of ingredients are assessed to reduce risk for errors.
  • Act as a gatekeeper and ensure proper checks and accuracy are maintained for any recipes changed or added to the UK/EI/NL recipe database (Lynx BM) and further published to Nutritics.
  • Coordinate new recipe builds with the Data team, acting as the main point of contact for any queries and ensuring standardization wherever possible and relevant.
  • Manage projects to ensure the ongoing accuracy of recipes, including standardizing yields, applying cooking methods based on NPD Executive Chefs cooking guidelines, weights of cooked ingredients, and improving costings sheets templates.
  • Liaise directly with local teams and the units to review and update bespoke recipes relevant to them.
  • Provide the NPD Executive Chefs with detailed information on existing recipes to work with existing recipes and avoid duplication where possible.
  • Advise on the most efficient setup to maintain a simple and workable database, including standardizing how to implement bulk recipes, alternative ingredients for a shared recipe, etc.
  • Create and maintain Approved Product Lists for all brands.
  • Prompt and facilitate cross-check meetings with relevant project teams to ensure recipes, specs, and buying guides are accurate before being issued to the unit teams.
  • Contribute to cross-functional meetings and liaise with other key departments, including Purchasing, Supply Chain, Marketing Operations team, Data team, and others, to support the planning and implementation of NPD activities.
  • Monitor, manage, and carry out the ingredient listing process, including delisting/re-listing as required.
  • Support the NPD Executive Chefs and Commercial team with recipe information for upcoming projects.
  • Check and link recipe specs with recipes on Lynx BM.
  • Maintain live and up-to-date recipe specs on SharePoint.

Requirements:

  • Strong communication skills, able to manage meetings and coordinate different departments, and take accurate notes to ensure all actions are carried out.
  • Organized and accurate, with good attention to detail.
  • Good at problem-solving and driving improvements.
  • Proactive in scheduling own work according to department and commercial priorities.
  • Knowledge of how recipes, costings, and specs need to work in a commercial environment.

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