Senior Technologist for NPD and Commercial Projects

14 hours ago


Manchester, United Kingdom The Oval Partnership Full time

We are seeking a talented Senior NPD Technologist to join our dynamic team at The Oval Partnership.

About the Position

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and adapt to changing tastes in the food industry. As a key member of our NPD & commercial team, you will be responsible for innovating and developing new and existing products from benchmarking, developing, and launching products across retail, food service, and B2B sectors.

Duties
  • To lead the development of products in the NPD kitchen which can be scaled up on our factory production lines.
  • Oversee projects and tasks internally alongside customer requests whilst ensuring work is completed in line with the key dates on the critical path.
  • Organise and co-ordinate factory trials by ordering ingredients, planning paperwork, and attending the trials with the factory.
  • Collaborate with NPD chefs and the team of technologists to create recipes, costings, and samples of new products.
Essential Skills and Qualifications
  • Lead the development of recipes based on a customer brief or for an innovation session.
  • Develop and implement costing strategies for recipes and complete NPD specs.
  • Contribute to the completion of sample submission forms and customer presentation PowerPoints.
  • Source and order new raw materials and packaging for briefs.
  • Coordinate sample requests that are to be sent to customers with labels, cooking instructions, and NPD specs.
  • E nsure meeting critical paths for each project.
  • Stay up-to-date with food trends and macro trends which influence food choices.
  • Organise Christmas & BBQ benchmarking sessions.
  • Maintain organisation of the NPD stock in the freezers.
  • Develop innovation strategies for new products based on trends that fit within our factory capabilities.
  • Support the process manager on factory trials.
  • Support factory trials by providing recipes, specs, methods for new products progressing to trials.
  • Taste panels and sign off products/packaging following factory trials.
  • Experience within NPD department in the food industry preferred.
  • Able to work cross functionally with a positive can-do attitude.
  • Excellent attention to detail with good organisational skills.
  • Experience of food factory shop floor preferred.
  • Excellent cross functional and communication skills for dealing with internal and external customers as well as all levels of staff across all departments.
  • Have a keen interest in food.
  • Knowledge of meat-free products would be advantageous.
Additional Requirements
  • Full driving licence required.
  • Must be able to work flexibly within 40 hours per week.

We estimate the salary for this role to be around £55,000 - £65,000 per annum, depending on experience.



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