Food Service & Ingredients Npd Manager Job at Crown Chicken LTD, Division of Cranswick PLC (Hull)

Job Description

As our Food Service & Ingredients division continues to grow, we are strengthening our innovation capability with the addition of a Foodservice & Ingredients NPD Manager. Reporting to the Head of NPD & Innovation / Foodservice & Ingredients Director, this role plays a key part in shaping and delivering customer-led development plans across the Group. Working closely with sales, marketing and development chefs, you will drive proactive innovation across multiple channels, leading projects from concept to launch. Acting as a central point of coordination across sites and divisions, you'll ensure our pipeline is aligned to customer needs, commercial priorities and the wider Cranswick food strategy.

Job Responsibility

Lead the coordination and delivery of Food Service & Ingredients NPD projects and product launches across all divisions
Develop proactive, account-based innovation pipelines in partnership with sales and marketing teams
Build and maintain strong, gold standard relationships with key customers across development and innovation
Create and manage 6-month innovation pipelines with Development Chefs, focused on out-of-home (OOH) opportunities
Act as the lead development contact for key strategic customers, ensuring alignment to their requirements
Embed Cranswick food strategy pillars into innovation plans and customer engagement
Collaborate with B2B customers to maximise opportunities from existing retail ingredient portfolios
Streamline development activity to ensure efficiency, value and speed to market
Ensure all development activity meets customer sourcing guidelines, including preparing required documentation and product submissions
Work closely with site development teams to ensure adherence to stage-and-gate processes and drive agile, channel-appropriate ways of working
Coordinate group-level Foodservice & Ingredients NPD presentations

Requirements

Proven experience in NPD, innovation or project management within a food manufacturing or related environment
A self-starter with a dynamic, resilient approach and a passion for innovation
Strong project management and product launch experience, with the ability to deliver at pace
Commercially aware, with the ability to think strategically and align development to customer and business needs
Excellent relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and collaborate across teams and stakeholders
A natural networker, able to connect people, ideas and share best practice across the business
Curious and forward-thinking, with an interest in new technologies and ways of working
Highly credible and results-focused, with a reputation for delivering outcomes

What we offer

Car Allowance
Share Save Scheme - Access to purchase shares at a discounted rate
Pension Scheme with enhanced contribution options
Holiday Entitlement: - Generous allowance with the option to purchase additional days
Employee Discounts at major high street stores and supermarkets through our company portal

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