Twinings
NPD Technician
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Application Deadline: 14 April 2022
Department: New Product Development
Location: Andover
Description
Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values individuals and will encourage you to make an impact? Do you want the freedom to explore, and the opportunities to find new ways and to innovate? If so, TwiningsOvo delivers.
We’re looking for people who don’t just come here to get the job done, but who have a real passion for the brand and a desire to do the best job they can. In return, we offer an inspiring package of employee benefits - to show just how much we value you. This role will offer you the scope for growth and the tools to aim high.
We have an exciting and ambitious journey ahead of us, and we are looking for people who want to step up and own their part to play. We are a team of go-getters, passionate about health and wellness, who are innately curious about our consumers and love to change up the way we do things to get to a better outcome.
The aim of the Design and Development Team, within Twinings NPD, is to drive commercial growth by creating technical opportunities and building them into great tasting, healthy beverages and driving competitive advantage for Twinings.
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The NPD Technician will help deliver this strategy by supporting new product development, across the Twinings portfolio. A key focus will be on ensuring the smooth and food safe running of the NPD laboratory.
Key Responsibilities
- Take responsibility for the safe and effective running of the NPD laboratory, ensuring clear food safety and health and safety policies are in place, well communicated and followed by all who use the lab.
- Ensure that all lab equipment is maintained, risk assessed, serviced and calibrated, following clear and agreed schedules.
- Proactively manage lab ingredient stocks, ensuring that key NPD ingredients are stocked, within shelf life, and stored appropriately.
- Support NPD Managers and technologists in lab-based activities such as running blend tests on new products, making up new product samples for consumer testing and ingredient sourcing.
- Supporting Applications Technologists develop new blends to meet sensory and cost requirements on some NPD projects.
- Supporting set up and running of TwO Sensory Panel Projects.
- Support project and proactive workstreams, including sample creation and presentation.
- Act as a role model for Twinings’ Innovation Behaviours.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
- 1 year’s experience of working as an NPD Technician or NPD Technologist, preferably within an NPD environment.
- Relevant laboratory experience including some level of laboratory or kitchen supervisory experience.
- Experience of working with food or beverage raw materials desirable.
- Working knowledge of, or qualification in food safety.
- Most have strong personal drive and desire to progress with the new product development field.
- Ability to prioritise and manage multiple demands from different stakeholders, challenging back where necessary.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Proactive nature - ability to create new ideas and bring to life.
- Demonstrates excellent attention to detail.
- Happy to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Curious, questioning and always looking ahead and outside.
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Benefits
- Yearly bonus based on personal contribution and financial performance
- Flexible working options
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays and the option to buy and sell holidays
- Onsite Gym and Wellbeing Centre
- Perkbox – employee discount scheme with discounts online, in high street stores, cinema, holidays, restaurants and many more
- Pension scheme with your contributions matched for up to 10% of your salary
- Cycle to work scheme
- SimplyHealth Cash plan
- Onsite Staff shop and online staff discounts
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