Marvel FMCG is proud to be partnered with Green Gourmet on their search for a Product Development Manager.
This is a role for a candidate who loves that end to end process within food innovation, you will get to this do this in an extremely forward thinking, agile and purpose led business.
Why this role ?
- An opportunity to work with a B Corp certified business that puts people at the heart of everything they do
- This is an integral role for the growth of the business
- You will have significant autonomy to be a creative Product Manager
Ways of working: 2 days a week in Stroud office
Who are Green Gourmet?
Green Gourmet is a a B Corp food innovation company creating frozen foodservice products for the Education, Travel and Retail markets. They thrive in solving problems for customers that others cannot and are growing their business significantly year on year. They are looking for talented individuals to join their team and push the business forward.
What you will be doing...
- We are looking for a curious, focused and dynamic Product Development Manager to manage a portfolio of products from inception to launch, managing projects and integrating with Quality & Compliance, Supply Chain, Sales and 3rd party manufacturers to bring innovative and right-fit foodservice products to market on time and in budget.
- This is an integral role to the business that is focused on developing new products utilising the knowledge within the team whilst managing relationships with 3rd part manufacturers to ensure a high-quality end product.
- Regularly conducting factory site visits across the UK and Europe to develop relationships, review production and identify areas for improvements.
- Run and be part of weekly on-site Green Gourmet tasting panels to assess batch consistency and quality across products.
- Throughout your whole role viewing all aspects of product development through the lens of sustainability, to ensure that Green Gourmet is advocating and implementing sustainable practices internally, and with their third party manufacturers from both an environmental and ethical perspective.
- Ensuring Green Gourmet meet their Planet objectives through regular monitoring and review of their environmental impact reporting and working with supplier partners to reduce their impact wherever possible.
What are we looking for?
A food lover. We would love to someone who is operating in the Foodservice arena and has a good understanding of food production. Experience of the factory setting and knowledge of what is involved from idea inception to a final product being launched would be great.
Ideally you would have an inquisitive nature whilst focused on achieve the end point on time and within budget. Able to balance multiple projects and work in a dynamic way, collaborating across the team to move initiatives forward.
If you would like to know more then please get in touch with Rich Howell for an initial conversation rich@marvelfmcg.co.uk
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