New Product Development Assistant

at  Gressingham Foods

Job Title: New Product Development Assistant
Reporting to: New Product Development Manager
Gressingham have an opening to recruit into their New Product Development team and would like to give the opportunity for a New Product Development Assistant / Technician to work in a small fast-paced team to develop and learn.
The role is based at our Redgrave site in Suffolk and will be an integral member of the NPD team developing new Poultry products. This person will provide support to the NPD team and other departments during all stages of development from kitchen concept to launch.

THE ROLE:

• Day to day management of New Product Development Kitchens ensuring they are to the required hygiene standard, tidy and organised.
• Preparation of product concept samples for customer presentations, repeat samples for customer reviews and required samples for PR and Photography requests.
• Intake and management of all new ingredients arriving for the new product development.
• Liaising with ingredients suppliers.
• Help with the updating of internal paperwork, updating recipes, cooking trials etc.
• Assist in the development of new product cooking instructions, then cooking validations.
• Liaising with Factory Production, Distribution, Technical regarding Raw material requirements, incoming and outgoing samples.
• Entering many areas of the factory daily, collecting meat/ingredients, working with production on trials, organization on development products in cold storage.
• Assistance with the organization of factory trials, (scale up from kitchen concept).
• Shopping for market reviews, customer presentations and visitor lunches.
• Organising of the diary for the customer sample schedule
• Possible support off site at customer presentations
• All relevant training will be given.
• Busy days full of variety, predominantly on your feet.