New Product Development (NPD) Technologist (Maternity Cover)

Cardiff Metropolitan University; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university in Cardiff seeks a New Product Development professional to enhance food manufacturing organizations. The role involves project management, client interaction, and delivering workshops, requiring a degree in Food Science and experience in NPD.

Qualifications

• Experience in New Product Development (NPD) and knowledge of industry trends.
• Ability to manage multiple client projects with bespoke needs.
• Experience in supervising or mentoring colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and disseminate NPD knowledge to food manufacturing businesses.
• Identify shortfalls in industrial partners’ operations through gap analyses.
• Implement project delivery mechanisms for NPD projects.

Skills

Project Management

Attention to Detail

Team Collaboration

Education

Degree in Food Science

Job description

You’ll lead the way by:

• Being responsible for delivering and disseminating applicable New Product Development and best practice knowledge to a wide range of food manufacturing businesses for the continued development of food manufacturing organisations in Wales and beyond as required.
• Identifyingkey new product development shortfalls in industrial partners’ operations through gap analyses and internal audits.
• Implementing a rigorous and robust project delivery mechanism (from project enquiry to project closure) for all New Product Development projects delivered by the FIC under the guidance of the New Product Development Manager.
• Undertaking organoleptic evaluation, nutritional analysis, shelf-life determination and benchmarking of products in accordance with agreed protocols for partner companies and commercial clients.

What you’ll bring

With a supportive and "can do" attitude and an adaptive approach to working with businesses of all sizes, you'll be a team player and professionally contribute to the successful management and delivery of projects to timescale.

You will bring experience of working within NPD and keep yourself up to date with key trends in innovation in the food and drink manufacturing sector. Your attention to detail and project management skills will be applied to all areas of the role.

Additionally, you'll:

• Be organised and able to manage multiple client projects concurrently each with bespoke project needs, outputs and timescales.
• Be willing to support the delivery of workshops, training and mentoring using various delivery mechanisms to a range of learners
• Hold a degree in a relevant Science discipline i.e. Food Science and have worked in at least 2 product categories in NPD or related areas.
• You may be expected to supervise or mentor colleagues with less experience and support the work of others in the team.