Development Technologist

A leading FMCG Food manufacturer is currently recruiting for a Senior NPD Technologist / New Product Development Technologist to support the NPD & commercial team to innovate and develop new and existing products from benchmarking, developing, and launching products across retail, food service and B2B.

A full driving license and transport will be required for this position.

The role is site-based Monday to Friday.

** No sponsorship can be provided for this position or candidates accepted with work visas expiring within the next 3 years.

This Senior Development Technologist / Senior NPD Technologist will manage projects and tasks internally alongside customer requests whilst ensuring work is completed in line with the key dates on the critical path. You will also organise and execute factory trials by ordering ingredients, planning paperwork, and attending the trials with the factory

Senior Development Technologist / Senior NPD Technologist responsibilities include:

• Develop recipes based on a customer brief or for an innovation session
• Costing up recipes and completing NPD specs
• Completing sample submission forms and customer presentation PowerPoints
• Packaging fits for inner cartons, retail bags and outer cases
• Sourcing and ordering new raw materials and packaging for briefs
• Organising sample request that are to be sent to customers with labels, cooking instructions and NPD specs
• Meeting critical paths for each project
• Keep up to date with food trends and macro trends which influence food choices.
• Maintain organisation of the NPD stock in the freezers
• Innovation development of new products based on trends that fit within our factory capabilities
• Support factory trials by providing recipes, specs, methods for new products progressing to trials
• Taste panels and sign off products/packaging following factory trials

You will ideally be degree qualified / equivalent in a Food Science discipline and have experience working within an NPD department in the food industry. You will be IT literate in Excel, Word, Power-point and be able to work cross functionally with a positive can-do attitude. You will have excellent attention to detail with good organisational skills and have a keen interest in food

To apply please email a cv