New Product Development Assistant

• 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
• Liasing 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

• Experience of working within a professional kitchen or catering environment
• 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 channeling in priority order
• Full driver’s license required – ESSENTIAL
• A passion for 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

Good knowledge and understanding of a factory environment – not essential

• Reduced cost staff shop
• Opportunities to further train and develop further (career progression)
• Private counselling support services
• Auto enrolment Pension available
• Subsidised “Wild Duck Canteen” serving hot food and tasty snacks
• Staff and family events
• Monthly Employee Draw
• Long Service Awards
• “Freebie Fridays”