NPD Technologist, East Midlands
Job Description
Job Title: NPD Technologist
Location: East Midlands
Are you a highly driven individual, with a passion for bakery and ready to make an instant impact within food manufacturing? Then I encourage you to join my client’s team and make a significant contribution to their already market leading success!
What awaits you
• Opportunity to join a market leading NPD team
• Working with a wide variety bakery ingredients
• Friendly and encouraging management team
• Appealing work schedule
• Customer facing opportunities through site visits
• Excellent training scheme
Main Responsibilities
• Carry out accurate and reproducible test bakes
• Supporting customer presentations with product samples at top quality and within time frames, with the aim to lead some of these sessions in the future
• Analysing trials, writing reports and feeding back findings, keeping written documentation of all stages
• Presenting back findings and next steps to customers both via email and on Teams calls/in person
• Updating project statuses on the online system
• Inputting supplier specification and material data sheet
• Information onto a development system to support food safety functions
• Liaise with Finance to gather development products and ingredient costings
• Working towards learning how to formulate, ingredient functionality and owning projects with an overall aptitude for learning with the aim to be a subject matter expert for bakery ingredient & formulation
Qualifications
• Strong experience in practical bakery
• Qualification in a bakery specific subject/course (Not Essential)
• Driving licence
• Competent IT Skills
• Organised and proactive
• Ambitious, motivated, get up and go attitude
• Work well as part of a team as well as individual
How to Apply
To apply for this position with my client, please send your most up-to-date CV detailing any relevant experience to david.boden@drnewitt.com or apply using the link below