New Product Development Technologist
Aligra Personnel
- Hungerford, Berkshire
- £25,000-28,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Monday to Friday
- 09:00 – 17:30
- £25,000 – £28,000 per annum (Depending on experience)
- Administration of the stage-gate process for all projects to ensure progress hurdles and deadlines are met for each development stage
- Working closely with individual teams, eg production, sales, to progress projects and report on progress in the NPD / PCM meetings
- Maintenance of a clear record of recipe progression, kitchen trials, and evaluations of development projects, including plans for ‘next steps’.
- Plan and conduct kitchen trials for NPD projects followed by taste panels and evaluations.
- Creation of critical paths and determination of realistic timelines.
- Creation and circulation of product development briefs in conjunction with teams to relevant stakeholders
- Oversee and manage development projects from concept to launch of products in collaboration with project owners
- Minute taking and distribution of NPD and PCM minutes.
- Maintenance and circulation of Yellow Project Folders containing a collation of all necessary paperwork related to the project.
- Compilation of the bill of materials for new products.
- Organisation and scheduling of taste panels including monthly shelf life panels.
- Benchmarking of development projects against competitor products in the market place.
- Test bakes for on pack recipes to determine on pack methodology, verify accuracy and to check quality of products.
- Preparation of detailed visual quality standards for all new products – prepared in collaboration with sampling team.
- Writing customer specific specifications/queries for new products.
- Management of retailer specific specifications and maintenance of the customer portals
- Preparation of quality contracts and discussion with retailer technologists for review and maintenance
- Essential to have a sound educational background
- Desirable to have degree standard education but not essential
- Knowledge of factory production processes
- Experience of food and baking
- Knowledge of gluten free products
- Knowledge of technical processes
- Experience in food product development
- Knowledge of food labelling legislation
- Good at problem solving
- Excellent communicator verbal and written
- Project management skills
- Ability to influence and collaborate
- Ability to adapt to fluid and changing priorities
- Ability to adjust pace to suit job demands
- Knowledge of customer technical portals