NPD Manager

BBF Limited; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

BBF Limited is seeking an experienced NPD Manager for its Hull location. This role involves leading product development, managing customer relationships, and ensuring the successful launch of new products. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in food manufacturing, coupled with strong communication skills and a passion for innovation.

Benefits

Great salary depending on experience

Pension

Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to meditation and well-being app

Dedicated in-house Learning & Development team

Online training platform

Free on-site parking

Onsite Cake Shop (majorly discounted)

Qualifications

• At least 5 years' experience within a food manufacturing business.
• Self-starter with energy and enthusiasm for NPD.
• Experience managing projects from start to finish.

Responsibilities

• Lead NPD projects from concept to launch.
• Collaborate across departments to meet project deadlines.
• Manage stakeholder communication and customer relations.

Skills

Communication

Creativity

Teamwork

Project Management

Problem Solving

Education

Food science-related qualification

Job description

BBF Limited

Hull

Full-time, Permanent

We are currently recruiting a NPD Manager to be based at our Hull bakery on a full-time, permanent basis. This is a perfect opportunity for a Senior or Lead Technologist who is looking to take the next step in their career.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a motivated individual with a creative flair and passion for NPD and bakery. You will be a team player with superb communication skills, which will enable you to to be the first point of contact for our key customer and internal teams.

A self-starter, you will show energy and enthusiasm for the products in which you work, and you will thrive under pressure.

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years' experience within a food manufacturing business, preferably a bakery or equivalent knowledge/experience. A food science-related qualification is preferred.

The role of a NPD Manager at BBF Limited

The role purpose covers concept work in the test bakery through to full scale factory scale up of projects across all of BBF sites, leading to a successful launch instore.

Responsible for the correctly sourcing new raw materials, creating recipes coordinating factory trials with operations, process, and site technical teams at relevant sites.

Responsible for the development of commercially viable new products via specific retailer

To successfully deliver all projects in-line with the critical path, ensuring full and timely communication and collaboration with all areas of the business and the customer.

To ensure all projects adhere to the PLM process ensuring any product introduced to the sites are controlled and documented.

Drawing on their past experience of the NPD process the individual will be able manage a project from start to finish to a gold standard.

Manage Stakeholders - Ensure great communication between key departments.

Line management, with a minimum of one direct report

First point of contact for our customers, sole responsibility for day-to-day customer communications for a key strategic customer/s.

As the key contact, travel to BBF sites or our customers head office is essential. You will conduct submissions at customers and host customer visit at site.

Who are BBF Limited?

BBF Limited are one of the UK's leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.

Our team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cake, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more!

We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join BBF Limited! We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it!

On top of making some really tasty cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too! Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you'll be coming to work smiling.

What do you get in return?

Financial

Great salary depending on experience

Pension

Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit

Access To The Company Benefits Hub

Access to 'Company Shop' - a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products

Health & Wellbeing

25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to meditation and well-being app

Personal & Professional Development

Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team

Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses

A few other bits

Free on-site parking

Onsite canteen

Onsite Cake Shop (majorly discounted)

Recruitment Agencies

We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren't adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly and therefore any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won't be liable for a fee. Please don't speculatively contact us in relation to this vacancy or any other vacancy.