Exciting Opportunity for NPD Coordinator

Are you a senior NPD technologist ready to elevate your career into a dynamic project management role?

Our client, a leading player in the industry, is offering a fantastic opportunity for an NPD Coordinator to drive innovation and collaboration with major retailers. In this customer-facing role, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, developing blue-sky ideas that impact the wider business. This is your chance to make a significant contribution to the future of food products and advance your career with scope for future progression and development. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity—apply now and be part of a team dedicated to pushing boundaries in product development.

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‍You will be responsible for, but not limited to:

• NPD Lead accounts
• Support on all NPD across additional accounts where required.
• Collaborative approach towards customer briefs and tenders working alongside, CM’s, TM’s, Procurement, Packaging, Finance, Marketing & Operations, ensuring all briefs are time managed and all stakeholders have been provided sufficient time to be able to complete their tasks.
• Understanding of end to end CP process, including customer relevant documentation and on-line systems.
• Coordinate concept to launch on key accounts, including regular update meets with customer teams to ensure alignment.
• Work across the company functions (including Technical / Sales / Production / Packaging / Procurement) to help support new product samples and support necessary trials when and where appropriate
• Support for all NPD sampling requiring keen attention to detail ensuring quality and coordination with NPD Manager and relevant Customer Technologist/Account Managers/Production Managers/Procurement Managers
• Support sourcing all raw materials required involving liaising with the packaging team and suppliers, procurement team, production and collecting additional materials off site as required for samples
• Raising of dummy orders, ensuring product is made as requested, checking quality of product. Liaising with production on issues
• Liaise with Packaging, Technical, Production, Planning and Procurement to ensure all requirements are in place for factory trials.
• Pre-production trials attendance and support., liaising with production and planning, ensuring product is made to the line standard provided. Writing of report
• Support NPD build document control, logging all versions of products developed by the NPD team including calculating QUIDs
• Ensure the key NPD tracker activities are achieved, update NPD projects tracker regularly, provide information to all internal parties.
• Attend weekly NPD meetings ensuring all data captured on tracker is up to date. Lead meeting in absence of NPD Mgr & Senior Innovations Mgr.
• Support departmental continuous improvement initiatives to increase innovation, implement better ways of working

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What's required?

• Experience / Knowledge of Critical Pathway / Concept to Launch (essential)
• HACCP L2 minimum (highly advantageous)
• High-quality fruit preparation/manufacturing experience
• Strong team and work ethic
• Well-organised and clear ways of working
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable working cross-functionally at all levels
• Working knowledge of retailer requirements for sample submissions (essential)

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What's in it for you?

£33,000.00 - £35,000.00

Do you think you fit the criteria?

Want to find out more about the role?

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(ID 070)

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