Senior NPD Technologist
Cranswick Country Foods Poultry is a specialty producer of delicious, cooked poultry ingredients and leading innovators in our industry. We create exciting, original products that meet the needs of today’s busy consumers. Working closely with customers across retail, food service and B2B, our bespoke chicken and turkey products offer creative and flavoursome lunchtime solutions, including street food-inspired dishes, superfood salads, hot and cold sandwiches and much more.
The main purpose of this role is to provide a site-based resource within the development department to own and manage NPD and EPD projects for the Poultry site for the customer base from initial ideation to process handover but oversees the project delivery through to launch.
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.