Product Development Manager - Food Manufacturing

Summary

Are you an experienced NPD Manager looking for a next career move or are you a highly capable Senior Development Technologist looking to take on more accountability?

Job Description

Our client who operates within the bakery sector is looking for an NPD Manager who will be able to lead a small team and drive innovation and product development. Working closely with major retail and foodservice clients and internal functions. It is important that you have a proven track record of delivery working from customer briefs and also able to demonstrate business sense that allows you to identify opportunity and customer needs, ones that particularly maximise site core capabilities.

The role is commutable from a number of locations in Yorkshire via the M62/M621 & M1 - Leeds, Bradford, Doncaster, York, Barnsley, Huddersfield & Pontefract to name a few.

You will be customer focused always driven to achieve the best results building a high performance team that gets things 'right first time'. Working at a pace should be second nature, you will need to be able to support and mentor your team and set and maintain high standards setting best practice for all. To achieve this your communication should be clear and directional yet allows others to achieve and develop personally.

Previous experience of working in the bakery sector will definitely be beneficial, however applicants from other sectors will be considered. You will need to be up to date with food tends, be completely up to speed with managing critical paths and related paperwork. Project management plays a pivotal part of the role as does working closely with the Process Manager to ensure smooth transfer to the factory.

Ref CCN8776

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