Ben Garland

• Proven experience in chilled food manufacturing NPD, with a strong record of taking products from concept through to launch.
• Excellent project management skills, able to balance multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to work closely with retail customers.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, able to work cross-functionally with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Passionate about food innovation and consumer trends, with a drive for continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop the NPD team, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement working with the NPD Controller to create a high performing NPD Team.

• Leading the NPD agenda, managing projects from concept to launch, ensuring timelines, costs, and quality standards are achieved.
• Develop and maintain a proactive Innovation pipeline, covering NPD, EPD and new concepts, aligned to business strategy, food trends, category insight and growth plans.
• Working collaboratively with customers to understand briefs, present new ideas, and deliver commercially viable chilled food products.
• Partnering with technical, operations, and commercial teams to ensure seamless product launches.
• Keeping up to date with market insights, competitor activity, and emerging food trends to inspire innovation.
• Supporting the development of junior team members, fostering a culture of creativity and excellence.

• Competitive salary package with benefits.
• The chance to work with a dynamic and supportive leadership team who value innovation and fresh thinking.
• Strong pipeline of exciting, chilled food projects offering real opportunity to make your mark.
• Career progression opportunities within a growing business.
• A collaborative culture where your ideas and expertise will directly influence the company’s success.

Location: East Yorkshire
Overview: An exciting opportunity for a Senior NPD technologist to join a large multi-site company, investing greatly into their expansion.

About You:

• Ideally educated in a food science or similar degree
• Experience working as an NPD Technologist within UK food manufacturing
• Be highly organised with strong attention to detail
• Work using your own initiative either on your own or as part of a team
• Have an interest in food and keep up with new trends

What will you be doing?

• As Senior NPD Technologist, you will oversee NPD projects from concept till launch
• Work closely with commercial and supply chain in the business
• Build relationships with your customers and be the point of contact for them
• Keep ahead of industry trends, consumer insights and competitor activities
• Deal with all internal admin in a timely manner.

What can they offer you?
They offer you an opportunity to work closely with customers and develop the relationships. You would be joining a business that is well established and a leader in what they do.

We are seeking applications from talented NPD Technologists, NPD Managers, Senior NPD Technologists, Development Technologists who live commutable/are willing to relocate to the East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Beverley or East Ridings

How to Apply
If you have the desired qualifications and experience, please send your CV quoting re BG/TNT/3068 or call 0161 399 1575 / 07830944304 for a confidential discussion.

True North Talent is recognised as a trusted supplier of permanent, contract and interim recruitment services to the food manufacturing and FMCG industries. Our teams of specialist recruiters operate across food manufacturing Operations Jobs, food manufacturing Engineering jobs, food manufacturing Technical jobs, food manufacturing NPD jobs, food manufacturing Supply Chain jobs and food manufacturing Commercial jobs. We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.
 

Location: North Lincolnshire 
Overview: An exciting opportunity for a Technical Manager to drive an already successful technical team towards all desired goals. The opportunity to maintain and build upon already existing retailer relationships and work alongside them for collaborative success.

As the ideal next Head of Technical you will have…
-    Background in chilled food manufacturing
-    Experience working with major retailers 
-    Great interpersonal skills, ensuring pre-existing relationships and new ones can be formed with retailers and staff alike 
-    Enthusiastic about driving a successful technical team to success 

As part of this role, you will…
-    Overseeing all technical, quality, food safety, regulatory, compliance and hygiene activities.
-    Maintaining and creating new relationships closely with major retailers.
-    Build capability through coaching, succession planning and robust performance management.
-    Lead, motivate, and develop the technical team to deliver high performance and a strong food safety culture.

What can they offer you?
-    This is a global company and has huge opportunity for growth within it. 
-    Personal private healthcare.
-    A collaborative working environment. 

We are seeking applications from talented Technical Managers, Quality & Technical Managers, Technical Team Leaders in and around the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire areas. 

How to Apply
If you have the desired qualifications and experience, please send your CV quoting re BG/TNT/2066 or call 0161 399 1575 / 07830944304 for a confidential discussion.

True North Talent is recognised as a trusted supplier of permanent, contract and interim recruitment services to the food manufacturing and FMCG industries. Our teams of specialist recruiters operate across food manufacturing Operations Jobs, food manufacturing Engineering jobs, food manufacturing Technical jobs, food manufacturing NPD jobs, food manufacturing Supply Chain jobs and food manufacturing Commercial jobs. We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.