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Senior NPD Technologist
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About the Role
Zest is exclusively partnering with a growing, well-established food manufacturer in London to find a Senior NPD Technologist to take real ownership of their NPD pipeline. This is a project management role at heart: you'll be running products from initial concept through to factory launch, pulling together technical, commercial, operations, purchasing, production and quality teams and keeping everyone moving toward the same deadline.
You'll be the one people come to for a project update, the one chasing progress when something's stalled, and the one in the room for every factory trial and first production making sure it goes the way it's meant to. You'll plan and run tasting panels, using the feedback to steer decisions rather than just record them. You'll manage customer samples end to end, keep specifications and product data current across the systems that need them, and give artwork a final look before it goes to print. When something looks like it could become a risk, technical, commercial or otherwise, you'll flag it early and help sort it before it becomes a bigger problem. And as you get settled, you'll start bringing junior NPD colleagues along with you too.
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Requirements
- Proven experience running NPD projects or products through development
- Strong organisational and coordination skills
- The confidence to manage multiple stakeholders at once
- A genuine interest in food and how it gets made
- Factory experience is a must
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Important Note
Unfortunately - sponsorship is not available for this role, all candidates must have full UK right to work and not require sponsorship now or in the future.
Contact
If you like being the person who makes things actually happen, I'd love to hear from you. Please contact Danielle on 01780 483 999 or db@zestfoodjobs.co.uk to find out more.
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