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Product Technologist

Employer
LSA Recruitment Ltd
Location
London
Salary
Competitive + bonus and excellent benefits
Closing date
11 Jan 2019

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Sales

Job Details

Product Technologist

Location:  London

Salary:  Competitive + bonus and excellent benefits

OPPO'S PHILOSOPHY

Unhealthy food is everywhere. It tastes really good.  Meanwhile other sectors like technology and travel have seen rapid development, while the food industry has stayed stagnant.

Health and taste have become two separate things and are rarely found in the same packaged product. Everyone loves their favourite sweet treats but feel guilty eating them because they’re bad for your health. In fact, we’re less healthy than we were 50 years ago.

Meanwhile, healthy food, typically functional convenience involving unnatural substitutes and no taste, doesn’t answer cravings for real indulgence.

We’re here to change that, as Product Technologist your role is to change that.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

As Product Technologist, your role, put simply, is to change the world by delivering #GoodTemptation!

We are looking for someone bold, someone who can think big, be inventive & challenge the norm.  This isn’t easy, you’ll need to be prepared to get out of your comfort zone to grow and to put the time into honing your craft in order to become a world-class developer in the healthy indulgent market place.

WHAT WILL YOU BE RESPONSIBLE FOR?

You will run your own NPD projects, with the support of Sally (our Head of Product), to shape the future of the Oppo product range, ensuring Oppo fans can have temptation they never need to resist across an array of exciting categories. Roles to include:

  • Concept development
  • Ingredient sourcing & development
  • Packaging sourcing & development
  • Product development with external factories
  • Production trials (travel to Europe required)
  • Technical product compliance – inc. nutritional targets and legal labelling
  • Critical path management

You will run your own EPD projects to ensure we remain the number one healthy indulgent brand in Europe.  Projects to include:

  • Cost optimisation
  • Quality improvements – including creative problem solving of technical challenges
  • Packaging improvements
  • Nutritional macros

You will work with the product team to develop and implement a Technical Strategy. Specific roles to include:

  • Maintaining a database for raw material specifications
  • Developing & maintaining a database for finished product, including factory recipes, analysed nutritional, pack copy, packaging specifications
  • Managing product complaints, working with factories to close out issues
  • Organising monthly taste panels

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

You’ll have commercial awareness, be willing to persevere when the going gets tough, be flexible and adaptable to change and understand the importance of perspective when problem solving.

  • Experience of end to end NPD from concept to launch
  • Experience of managing a critical path to right first-time launch
  • Experience with working with third party manufacturers & ingredients suppliers
  • Manufacturing experience & working knowledge of HACCP and factory standards
  • Knowledge of legal labelling

If this is a role that excites you and that you know you can succeed in please email both your CV and your salary / package expectations to helen@lsarec.co.uk or call 01206 266736 to discuss this opportunity further.

ALL DIRECT AND THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS WILL BE FORWARD TO LSA RECUITMENT LTD

Company

About LSA Recruitment Ltd

LSA Recruitment Ltd was formed in 2005 with a drive to form a recruitment company that consistently delivers a high level of service to both clients and candidates. We are frequently approached by businesses and candidates alike because they expect something additional from a recruitment company. We are an independent company that provide a tailored service in the recruitment of Sales and Marketing, HR and Financial professionals from Junior to Director Level within a variety of sectors. Our service is offered across the UK, and it shouldn’t surprise you to know that we are professional, dedicated consultants driven to understanding your needs, paying attention to the detail to deliver the results you expect.

Recruitment is an industry based upon people; our philosophy is simple but incredibly effective. We deliver a high level of service - listening, understanding and learning about you and your requirements, what matters to you matters to us.

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