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Are you a seasoned Product Developer with a passion for crafting delicious Ready Meals and Chilled products for major retailers?
Our client has an exciting opportunity for you to cover a maternity leave position and take charge of running your own projects. Bring your innovative ideas to the table and delight customers with exciting new offerings. If you're ready to take your expertise to the next level in the dynamic world of food product development, this role is tailor-made for you!
You will be responsible for, but not limited to:
* Develop new and existing recipes into commercially viable products, benchmarking regularly to gain awareness of the market for a competitive advantage.
* Create recipes alongside the chefs, input recipes onto the recipe management system and review the accuracy of all recipes inputted by the product technologist and chefs to ensure they meet cost, weight and nutritional requirements.
* Ensure the viability of new raw ingredients from an operational, technical and product development perspective to bring innovation and challenge to existing policies and practices.
* Complete and/or review and approve all relevant documentation (feasibility forms, customer submission forms, concept to process handovers etc.) to ensure accuracy of information shared internally and externally.
* Put all products through the feasibility process; working with the commercial, operations, technical and purchasing teams to solve any issues to ensure concepts are repeatable, sustainable and scalable.
* Compile product costing information and adapt recipes to balance food quality with the achievement of commercial brief targets within customer brand standards.
* Present benchmarking, existing (EPD) and new products (NPD) at internal and customer presentations, passionately demonstrate good market and food trends awareness, to achieve product approval
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* Follow the critical path time lines as directed, escalating incomplete tasks and deficiencies in testing, to ensure that mitigating action can be taken to prevent delays in product acceptance and launch
* Assist the process team with the scale up production trials, as required, to ensure production quality matches the kitchen quality signed off by the customer.
* Provide leadership and direct to ensure that across the team people are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed an delivery to their potential.
What's required?
* Previous experience of working in a fast-paced environment
* Analytical; comfortable with producing and reviewing costings
* Proficient in all elements of product development from concept to launch
* Proven track record of successfully validating products and producing high-quality documentation
* Confident in presenting to all levels within the business and directly to customers
* Experience in people management
What's in it for you?
£35,000.00 - £45,000.00
Do you think you fit the criteria?
Want to find out more about the role?
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