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NPD Manager (Food Manufacturing / NPD) 12 month FTC - Flexible Working Available

Employer
Burton's Biscuits
Location
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
22 Aug 2019

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Role overview

Location: Sighthill Industrial Estate, Edinburgh

Salary: Competitive Salary 

Contract: Full Time, 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Who Are We?

At Burton’s Biscuit we are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Maryland Cookies, Wagon Wheels and Thomas Fudge’s to name just a few of our brands.  We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits!

We are the UK’s third largest – and fastest-growing – biscuit manufacturer, and our vision is to have a shared Pride and Passion for baking great biscuits & snacks that delight our consumers, shoppers and our customers.   Our Head Office is in St Albans but the majority of out 1800 employees are based in our four bakeries in Llantarnam, Blackpool, Edinburgh and Dorset. 

Alongside some of the nation’s most loved snack brands, such as Maryland, Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels, we have secured a long term agreement to allow us to manufacture a number of Mars branded biscuit products, Marmite biscuits and Cathedral City savoury snacks.  We are also forming key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector. 

What are we all about?

Here at Burton’s Biscuit Company we pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. Our goal is to support our team in achieving their career goals, by providing a working environment that offers opportunity, support, scope and pace of change.   Our culture is the foundation of our business. We are fast paced, agile and fun.

Why work as part of our NPD Team?

You’ll lead a small team of two based out of our Edinburgh bakery and report into the group Head of R&D. Great tasting biscuits don’t happen by accident and you will take responsibility for making this happen. A key focus will be managing the site R&D agenda which will cover Innovation, NPD - including product & pack changes. You will be responsible for ensuring all technical R&D documents are completed for new products and processes for commercial scale up’s & bakery trials.

A key part of this role will still be very hands, which will see you taking new baking specification briefs, these could be completely new bakes or be a slight alteration in an existing recipe. Ensuring prototypes and created to high quality spec on time. Working with the bakery team to help resolve baking technical issues during production (these can be sensory, chemical analysis, or shelf life testing). 

You will get to try lots of new and exciting things, in our very own R&D bakery onsite, every day will be a new adventure in baking tasty treats.

What are the key ingredients needed for the role?

To be an NPD Manager for Burton’s Biscuits we are looking for someone to have a Food Science, Food Technology or relevant science related degree.

Previous experience as an NPD Manager where you have managed the scaling up process for a commercial manufacturing operation. Experience of working in a commercial manufacturing environment where baking has been a key element in the manufacturing process (this doesn’t have to be food related but would be ideal). Also key experience of understanding the packaging process of finished consumer product.

Final part of the mix.

Strong communication skills with the ability to build relationships with key stakeholders quickly, not afraid to get hands on and is passionate and creating exciting products.

You may have had experience or be interested in the following: NPD Manager, New Product Development, Food Consultant, Innovation Manager, Senior Development Technologist, Food Manufacturing, Interim NPD Manager etc.

Company

The Burton’s story is a simple one, it’s about Great British Brands and Great British Biscuits that have been lovingly baked in the UK since 1935. Fast forward to present day and the Burton’s Biscuits Company is the home of Jammie Dodgers, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits!

Our Vision is to have a shared Pride and Passion for baking sensational biscuits & snacks that delight our consumers, shoppers and our customers. We’re the only major biscuit manufacturer in the UK to focus solely on biscuits making us one of the key players in the market. We employ circa 1,800 people around the UK, with the majority of our workforce being based at our three main manufacturing facilities in Llantarnam, Edinburgh and Blackpool. Our head office is based in St. Albans and a subsidiary office is located in Blackpool.

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