Senior NPD Manager Job at 360 Resourcing Solutions (London)

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior New Product Development (NPD) Manager to join our Innovation Team. This is a permanent, full-time position based at our London headquarters, with regular travel to our factory in Nuneaton (expenses covered). With the coming together of our two amazing brands – Eat Real and Proper – to create PROPER SNACKS, we're reinventing snacking as an act of positive well-being. At the heart of it all is our innovation team: the tastemakers, creators, and guardians of everything we make. We’re looking to offer someone the opportunity to be a thought-leader and pioneer in the snack category and develop their career within a rapidly growing business. In our rapidly growing business, we are looking for an experienced NPD professional with the skills and knowledge to lead a team of x2, as well as deliver your own end to end innovation and CI projects.

Job Responsibility

Team Leadership – line managing a team of x1 NPD Manager and x1 Product Developer, providing leadership, guidance and coaching
Ideation – working with Innovation Director, Brand & Commercial teams – you will use your knowledge of food trends and the latest functional ingredients, consumer behaviour and the category landscape to research and ideate new to market flavours and concepts, that align to our overall brand strategy
Development & Prototyping – utilising your strong relationships with suppliers and stakeholders, you’ll undertake benchmarking, develop detailed food briefs and manage submissions with suppliers and project teams. You’ll design the prototype recipes, setting the quality standards to ensure great taste, nutritional compliance and claims, factory feasibility and commercial viability are all built-in
Testing - you will set up shelf-life testing, analysis, data collection and interpretation, run internal and external taste panels and create summaries, reports and recommendations
Scale Up & Validation - working with suppliers and the factory – you’ll plan, oversee, assess and report on trials ensuring the concept can be produced safely and consistently at the right quality standards
Project Management – driving your projects forward, building the product elements of the Gate documentation following each phase of work. You’ll work with the project management team to flag and mitigate risk to the business using critical paths, commercial insight and factory impact
Continuous Improvement – you’ll work closely with your stakeholders in the London headquarters to identify and drive projects to continuously improve our processes and ways of working, implementing change that results in measurable improvements

Requirements

Senior management experience preferred, line management experience essential
Degree level qualification in Food Science/ Food Technology/ Food Manufacturing/ or similar at a minimum 2.1 grade or equivalent strongly preferred
Demonstratable passion for food with sensory training and broad experience in product testing
Proven experience in delivering multiple, complex projects to brief, on time and in full
Strong technical expertise in successful product design into scale up, validation and launch
Positive, proactive and relentless, with a flexible, can-do attitude to problem solving
A brilliant communicator and collaborator with experience of cross functional project delivery
Confident with the Microsoft Office suite of tools, with particular skills in Excel and Powerpoint

Nice to have

Degree level qualification in Food Science/ Food Technology/ Food Manufacturing/ or similar at a minimum 2.1 grade or equivalent strongly preferred
Senior management experience preferred

What we offer

Regular travel to our factory in Nuneaton (expenses covered)
working from home 1-2 days a week
travel expenses covered for travelling to Nuneaton manufacturing site and suppliers

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