Andy Bacon Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, Gb

Global Foodservice

Key Accountabilities: - • Leading the culinary agenda for strategic big bets and strongholds within the dairy portfolio • Driving relationships & business with global key accounts and chains through solution selling, compelling trends and insights along with culinary inspiration • Lead, develop and leverage the Arla Pro Global Culinary Community, sharing best practice and inspiration & building virtual teams for key projects• Provide creative culinary concept propositions and… Show more Key Accountabilities: - • Leading the culinary agenda for strategic big bets and strongholds within the dairy portfolio • Driving relationships & business with global key accounts and chains through solution selling, compelling trends and insights along with culinary inspiration • Lead, develop and leverage the Arla Pro Global Culinary Community, sharing best practice and inspiration & building virtual teams for key projects• Provide creative culinary concept propositions and direction for asset and content generation • Pivotal support role & trusted culinary expert for brand, commercial, R&D and sustainability functions• Providing application expertise and solutions internally & externally – identifying key USP’s, functional and performance attributes • Supporting category reviews by driving application testing, identifying the strongest performing products, market role out and NPD opportunities • Staying abreast of competitor activity and new to market products, benchmarking products and capabilities – capture and share insights accordingly• Owning and defining the culinary brief to support the NPD team with product development • Bringing the voice of the customer in to the business and supporting the building of strong value propositions through insights & customer needs• Continually monitoring and reviewing trends, menus, restaurants and new openings across markets • Frequently lead inspirational study trips for internal team and customers Show less

European Remit - Home Based

Key Accountabilities: - • Providing support to multiple scale global & local key accounts, creating direction and providing innovative concept propositions and building relationships - QSR, Pubs & Casual Dining, National Accounts, Route to Market & Retail• Pro-actively driving culinary capability and empowering a food confident sales team through a regular programme of engagement, training and development• Generation & delivery of culinary trends and insights, working closely with… Show more Key Accountabilities: - • Providing support to multiple scale global & local key accounts, creating direction and providing innovative concept propositions and building relationships - QSR, Pubs & Casual Dining, National Accounts, Route to Market & Retail• Pro-actively driving culinary capability and empowering a food confident sales team through a regular programme of engagement, training and development• Generation & delivery of culinary trends and insights, working closely with internal and external research agencies & partners• Frequent communication with Heinz Global Chef’s / Innovation Managers / Networking forums• Acting with a global mind-set, drive the culinary agenda - identify, initiate and develop the central foodservice flavour & innovation funnel (to include packaging, format and manufacturing processes) • Responsible for hosting and running ideation sessions both internal and externally – generating actionable outputs• Responsibility for concept development and very early stage product recipes in partnership with the 57 Centre European Innovation Centre / R&D Foodservice team• Trusted advisor & expert – team player, looked upon for culinary leadership and support at all levels from all sectors of the business in addition to business partners Show less

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the development & co-ordination of retail NPD & Blue Sky Development Programmes for specific customers, such as J Sainsbury's, ASDA, Co-op, Boots, Brakes & Weight Watchers, in addition to in house brands• Leading a team to ensure delivery of innovative concepts to both new and existing customers in this fast paced customer engaging role• Ensuring customer briefs fully deliver to the customer and the company expectations from concept through to… Show more • Responsible for the development & co-ordination of retail NPD & Blue Sky Development Programmes for specific customers, such as J Sainsbury's, ASDA, Co-op, Boots, Brakes & Weight Watchers, in addition to in house brands• Leading a team to ensure delivery of innovative concepts to both new and existing customers in this fast paced customer engaging role• Ensuring customer briefs fully deliver to the customer and the company expectations from concept through to launch• Communicating effectively with customers, instigating regular meetings, ensuring customers are kept fully appraised of product brief, market & competitor status• Working closely with & submitting accurate costings to the commercial teams in accordance to brief & company targets• Liaise with Marketing, Operations and Process Departments within the business to ensure a co-ordinated and professional approach• Forging close relationships with retail customers, development teams and suppliers Show less