NPD Graduate Placement

What would you get for working here?

• A competitive salary of £26,520 p/a
• 8% Combined Pension Contribution
• 28 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
• £250 refer-a-friend scheme
• Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
• Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
• A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
• Great opportunity for career development

What would you be doing?

We are a large scale food manufacturer supplying a wide range of bakery products to all of the UK major retailers, Food Service, B2B and Export.

As a member of the New Product Development team you will be involved in all of the below:

• Work closely with the NPD Manager & Bakery Specialist’s to create feasible products from the Test Bakery and scale up into factory
• Support NPD Manager with customer submission forms and generating ingredient lists and theoretical nutrition calculations, using Nutricalc software
• Completing HFSS calculators to support new product development
• Sending products to the laboratory for nutritional, microbiological and allergen testing
• Complete organoleptic shelf life reviews
• Panel products over-life and present at daily taste panels for other departments to taste.
• Completing market reviews and benchmarking
• Collating social media trends
• Support with customer presentations
• Support with lunches for customers and important visits
• Attend factory trials and collation of data from trials
• Build new product quality contracts
• Ownership of all NPD samples that go out on a daily basis and co-ordination of all sample requests
• Attend supplier trends workshops
• Opportunity for supplier innovation trip abroad

The successful candidate for this role will need to demonstrate the following skills, qualifications and attributes:

• Currently enrolled on (or recently graduated) a relevant Food Science, Nutrition or Food Technology degree.
• Passionate foodie
• Someone who is looking to embark on a career within the food industry
• Organised with good attention to detail

• Communication skills – able to communicate effectively with all levels.
• Presenting / Panels – confident to present products or processes to others.
• Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment

If you would like to join our award-winning, quality-driven team please use the ‘apply now’ link and follow the on-line application instructions.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team soon!