Lead Bakery NPD Chef & Innovator

BBF Limited; Hull and East Yorkshire; Sur place; GBP 42 000 - 66 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Pension

Life Assurance/Death in Service

Company Shop

Résumé du poste

BBF Limited in Hull is seeking a talented Lead Development Chef / Technologist to shape the future of our bakery portfolio. You will translate trends and customer briefs into new market-leading products across chilled, frozen and ambient categories.

You will work in an energetic NPD team, combining creativity, technical expertise and commercial awareness to deliver innovative bakery products for major retailers and foodservice.

Qualifications

• Experience in food NPD, recipe development or development chef/technologist role, ideally in bakery.
• Experience taking concepts through development stages to a finalised product.
• A food science, food technology or culinary qualification is desirable, or equivalent practical experience.
• PC literacy including Excel, PowerPoint, Word.

Responsabilités

• Proactively develop creative, innovative and best-in-class recipes across chilled, frozen and ambient categories.
• Translate market trends, consumer insights and emerging flavours into new recipe concepts that meet customer needs.
• Create commercially viable products that deliver outstanding taste and quality and align with manufacturing capabilities.
• Deliver NPD projects across the group in line with agreed critical path timings.
• Ensure timely communication and effective collaboration with customers and cross-functional teams throughout the development process.
• Proactively look for gaps, innovation, quality improvements across the business.
• Be hands on and prepare samples in the test bakery to a desired standard.
• Proven ability to complete all relevant NPD tasks required within our PLM process, independently to the desired standard.
• Drawing on their experience of the NPD process the individual will be able to manage a project from start to finish without prompts from others.
• Organise themselves to predict tasks and plan working within the critical path timings.
• Developing for a specific customer area e.g. Innovation, Morrisons, Asda, foodservice.
• Recognising and understanding the required brand standards for the account.
• Working alongside cross functional teams to deliver the projects in full and on time.
• Attending customers submission when required
• Understand the customers current range.

Connaissances

NPD leadership

Recipe development

Project management

Communication/presentation

Relationship management

Formation

Food science/food technology/culinary qualification

Outils

PC Literacy

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Description du poste

BBF Limited in Hull is seeking a talented Lead Development Chef / Technologist to shape the future of our bakery portfolio. You will translate trends and customer briefs into new market-leading products across chilled, frozen and ambient categories.

You will work in an energetic NPD team, combining creativity, technical expertise and commercial awareness to deliver innovative bakery products for major retailers and foodservice.