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.

This role is office based, 30 hours per week across Monday – Friday between 7am – 6pm.  Hours can be flexible to what suits the successful candidate.

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.

The Person:

• Experience of working within a professional kitchen or catering environment
• Good knowledge and understanding of a factory environment – not essential.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced ever changing environment with a large range of projects.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and quick to learn.
• Able to multitask on a large variety of tasks and channelling in priority order.
• Full driver’s license required – ESSENTIAL.
• A passion for food… everything food
• Confident Cook
• Polite, professional, Self-motivated, personable & effective communicator at all levels
• Good organization skills
• Team player.
• PC Literate with knowledge of Excel, Power point etc.
• Bubbly and Energetic
• Happy to Learn, not afraid to give it a go.

Benefits:

• Holidays – 28 Days per annum inclusive of paid bank holidays.
• Free onsite parking
• Subsidized canteen
• Staff shop sales
• Workplace pension (after initial qualifying period)
• Staff and family events
• Monthly Employee draws
• Long service awards
• Annual profit related bonus
• Private counselling support services

Interested: Please contact the HR department by email – hr@gressinghamfoods.co.uk to request an application form.