Job Description

Skills

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If you have the Senior NPD Technologist experience and skills we are looking for then you will receive a total reward package that includes:

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- A competitive salary of £40,000 p/a
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- 28 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
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- Access to Stream (formerly Wagestream) – a financial wellbeing benefit that lets you track earnings and access earned pay before payday, plus budgeting tools and money support to help you stay in control.
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- Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
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- Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
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- Professional development opportunities and qualifications
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- A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
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- Great opportunity for career development
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What would you get for working here?

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- A competitive salary of £40,000 p/a
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- 8% Pension Contribution
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- 28 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
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- £250 refer-a-friend scheme
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- Access to Stream (formerly Wagestream) – a financial wellbeing benefit that lets you track earnings and access earned pay before payday, plus budgeting tools and money support to help you stay in control.
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- Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
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- Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
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- Professional development opportunities and qualifications
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- A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
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- Outstanding opportunity for career development
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What would you be doing?

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Our Vision as a business is to be the "Go-to" supplier of bakery products, working nationally with retailers such as M&S; and Waitrose on their premium private label range and regionally through the Village Bakery brand. In achieving this vision,



we want to be recognised as a family business that continually invests in the future through the development of our people, quality and food safety culture, equipment and processes.

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Responsibilities

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- You will liaise with external partners and internal departments in order to co-ordinate and drive the development of products throughout the business and ensure that project timelines and targets are achieved.
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- Manage customer accounts with NPD & EPD projects, from concept through to launch
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- Direct contact with customers / retailers, face to face and written communication.
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- Work to tight deadlines in a fast pace environment ensuring that all key milestones are met.
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- Champion all documentation throughout concept to launch process - including recipes, submission forms, customer presentations, QAS/ CQMs, launch folders, factory paperwork.
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- Manage all tasks associated with product launch - organoleptic testing, lab analysis, packaging etc
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- Lead on feasibility meetings, pre-launch meetings and product launches
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- Sourcing of new ingredients and ensuring these are approved by the Compliance Manager
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- Responsibility for ensuring that product samples are sent to customers according to agreed specifications and requirements prior to despatch
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- Support team's workload to "get the job done"
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- Work closely with relevant specification writer to ensure alignment with project updates
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- Attend quality panels when required and or Competitor benchmarking sessions
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- Keeping up to date with competitors and planning in regular benchmarking sessions
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- Keeping up to date with latest food trends.
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- Artwork sign off
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- Maintain up to date project trackers
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- Attend weekly NPD meetings and update on projects and critical paths
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- Support the Group NPD manager with customer presentations
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- Generation of ingredient declarations and theoretical nutritional's and completion of customer submission forms
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- Review of shelf-life results with Site Quality Manager to agree proposed shelf life
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- Familiar with customer codes of practice.
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- Check off recipe v specification prior to launch.
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What skills and qualifications would you need?

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- To be considered for the role of Senior NPD Technologist the ideal candidate will have a food related degree and at least 2-3 years' previous experience within NPD, working on own-label products across multiple retailers.
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- You will be a strong & confident communicator who is proactive and highly organised.
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- Excellent project management skills
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- Strong self-drive and diligent mindset, with good attention to detail
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So, who are we?

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If you haven't heard of us before we are a family owned and managed Craft Bakery producing an award-winning range of Bread, Morning Goods, Pies and gluten free products.

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Our business has been producing products in this category since 1964 and since then we have grown in success due to our reputation for quality, innovation and technical experience.

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As a result of this continued growth, we now operate from a number of world class and well invested bakeries in and around Wrexham, including our dedicated Gluten free site 'Gluten Freedom' and our state-of-the-art 'Super Bakery' at Ash Road.

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We look forward to welcoming you to our team soon!

📌 SENIOR NPD TECHNOLOGIST (South Australia)
🏢 The Village Bakery Group
📍 South Australia