Job Role: Senior Development Technologist
Location: Merthyr
Salary: £36,000 -£42,000
Rhino Recruitment is working with a food manufacturing company which is located in Merthyr who are looking for a senior development technologist.
They are looking for someone who has a background in food manufacturing and has experience within a NPD role, you need to be confident with retailer submissions and have commercial knowledge.
Working hours Monday- Friday 8:30am – 5:00pm
Main responsibilities
- To support the Senior NPD manager in developing successful NPD, EPD and BlueSky concepts, championing project management, building great cross functional relationships across the wider business through a highly collaborative way of working and being a key driver of our “Passion for Food” value. Including working closely with key suppliers leveraging capabilities.
- Development of new products to meet product briefs for food service and retail and, when required, to take the initiative for ongoing research into EPD seeking to optimize new product quality, cost, and nutritional profile, owning the briefs.
- Managing critical paths through Wrike, keeping all relevant functions up to date on progress, escalating issues where relevant.
- Leading and facilitating factory trials to ensure optimization of product and process to improve manufacturing in line with the NPD process.
- Where relevant initiating competitor reviews and building a portfolio of competitor information having a good grasp of comparable products.
- Responsible for the management growth and development of direct reports.
Requirements/ Qualifications
- Meat Experience is Essential
- Food technology/science related qualification
- 4+ years’ experience in NPD
- Confident with Retailer submissions
- Commercially aware with a good grasp of consumer trends and the retail landscape.
- Experience working in matrix style structures requiring alignment to multiple functions.
