Senior NPD Technologist
Cranswick Country Foods Poultry is a specialty producer of delicious, cooked poultry ingredients and is a leading innovator in the industry. We create exciting, original products that meet the needs of today’s busy consumers.
The main purpose of the role is to provide a site based resource within the development to own and manage NPD and EPD projects.
The key elements of the role are:
- Owns, manages and develops NPD & EPD projects from initial ideation to handover to process technologist team.
- Champions the site stage and gate process and ensures accurate completion, record keeping and communication to key stakeholders throughout the NPD process.
- Responsible for critical path adherence for their projects up to handover to process and oversees project delivery through to launch.
- Understands category insight to enable them to generate credible and commercially sound paper ideas with rationale.
- Accurately creates recipes from scratch that fit with site operational competencies considering retailer brand standards.
- Drive cost effective concept development and ongoing product improvement, working in hand with the rest of the team.
- Sourcing new raw materials and packaging and dealing with ingredient suppliers.
- Organise and produce samples ready for dispatch and complete sample submission paperwork accurately.
- Manage internal and customer panels, presenting to the customer with confidence and supporting rationale.
- Builds a strong relationship with the customer development contact, understands what a good job looks like from a customer’s perspective and manages customer expectations in a timely manner.
- Organise nutritional testing and any chemical analysis to test and validate any initial product claims.
- Organise and validate organoleptic shelf life testing.
Monday to Friday shift.
Full Job Description is available upon request.