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Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Identifying key trends and NPD opportunities in collaboration with the customer-facing team• Ensuring timely delivery of NPD projects within established timelines and frameworks• Developing uniform templates for product development across the department• Managing internal and external stakeholders to meet project timelines and standards• Conducting regular benchmarking and gap analysis to influence product design decisions• Staying updated on industry trends and legislative changes affecting NPD• Overseeing recipe development, ensuring alignment with customer andconsumer expectations• Supporting onboarding of new suppliers within designated categories• Collaborating with key stakeholders to actively develop own brand products

Manchester, United Kingdom

Bradford, United Kingdom

• Market expert within my fields, driving and developing innovation within my categories, creating product ranges that maximise customer participation and sales• Maximizing own brand sales and share growth by increasing own brand penetration to match company targets.• Define and create the product brief to deliver the range, quality and packaging improvements for my categories• Seek new business and market opportunities that drive own participation and market share with products that disrupt the customer-shopping trip• Continually monitor and review the market, identifying new key trends and commercial opportunities• Liaise with the category development team to understand the customer requirements through category reviews and customer insight• Work closely with the design team and suppliers to develop innovative packaging and design solutions to optimize the brand• Manage my supplier skill set effectively, ensuring they have the ability to drive product area• Work closely with the sourcing buyers to source potential new suppliers that can deliver specified product quality• Act as Project manager and support the process team to ensure that new products are launched on time and in line with the company pipeline• Collaborate and influence the ‘category traders’ to create the development strategies for the categories• Facilitate and lead listening groups to act as a liaison with the senior management team to work towards improved ways of working• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and supplier base

Manchester

• Manage new product development formulations from laboratory scale through to commercialisation, ensuring that accurate records are kept of the work done.• Manage Research & Development trials, with input from manufacturing and engineering, to plan, organise and implement material, product and processing trials.• Represent the Company with Customers (Internal & External) and suppliers ensuring that a professional technical customer liaison and support service is provided.• Manage assigned projects to ensure product performance and safety and managing assigned projects from initiation to completion, meeting the required timescales. • Manage the introduction of new products by organising/creating raw material, product and customer specifications.• Ensure that adequate formulation and product stability trials are conducted to ensure product’s shelf life.• Ensure that new products, samples and materials are evaluated thoroughly and that adequate claim support data is generated.• Manage the development of tests and test methods for new materials, products and processes and to simplify current practices.• Help to identify the appropriate raw material/chemical suppliers who can service the business.

Middleton, Manchester

• Provide QA/ Analytical support to blending, blowmould and filling processes• Generate/ collate data and evaluation of quality issues. • Auditing, Investigations of customer complaints, support incident investigations.• Support packaging production and facilitate solutions.