Overview
Product Manager
This role is with a forward-looking, entrepreneurial company that is part of a global group. It produces a diverse range of cutting-edge products in partnership with leading retailers.
Responsibilities
- Manage all product samples: review, taste, and ensure timely distribution to customers and suppliers, maintaining accuracy and consistency
- Lead internal and customer tasting and benchmarking sessions, providing clear insights and recommendations for product positioning and improvement
- Deliver high-impact customer presentations, ensuring content is accurate, compelling, and aligned with brand strategy
- Manage critical paths with strong project planning, milestone tracking, and proactive resolution of delays to ensure successful on-time launches
About You / Qualifications
- 5 years’ experience in NPD within ambient food, with market and trend implementation and execution experience
- Proven ability to translate market insights and consumer trends into successful products
- Energetic and passionate with a strong awareness of evolving consumer and market trends
- Hands-on with nutritional analysis tools such as Nutri Calc (or equivalent)
- Comfortable owning and driving critical paths, keeping projects and stakeholders aligned
- Experience delivering brand-led innovation from concept to launch
- Strong interest in nutrition, wellbeing, and emerging trends
- Positive, proactive problem solver who brings ideas and practical solutions to a fast-paced environment
More details
The Product Manager job (ref:9051) is paying approximately £50,000 depending on experience.
Benefits include 25 days holiday per annum, increasing to 27 days after 3 years’ service and 30 days after 5 years’ service; extensive benefits programme including optional extra holiday purchase, medical cash plan, access to mental health support, and more; flexible hours and progression opportunities; and a yearly bonus structure based on company targets.
This is a hybrid role requiring 1 day per week in the office, based on the South Coast in the Bournemouth area, with travel to trade shows and supplier sites across the UK and Europe.
The role is commutable from Weymouth, Dorchester, Sherborne, Salisbury, Southampton, and Shaftesbury.
Alternate job titles
- New Product Development Manager
- Head of NPD
- Head of Product Development
- Senior NPD Technologist
- NPD Supervisor
- Senior Development Technologist
- Food Product Development Jobs
- Food Manufacturing Development Jobs
Overview
Product Manager
This role is with a forward-looking, entrepreneurial company that is part of a global group. It produces a diverse range of cutting-edge products in partnership with leading retailers.
Responsibilities
- Manage all product samples: review, taste, and ensure timely distribution to customers and suppliers, maintaining accuracy and consistency
- Lead internal and customer tasting and benchmarking sessions, providing clear insights and recommendations for product positioning and improvement
- Deliver high-impact customer presentations, ensuring content is accurate, compelling, and aligned with brand strategy
- Manage critical paths with strong project planning, milestone tracking, and proactive resolution of delays to ensure successful on-time launches
About You / Qualifications
- 5 years’ experience in NPD within ambient food, with market and trend implementation and execution experience
- Proven ability to translate market insights and consumer trends into successful products
- Energetic and passionate with a strong awareness of evolving consumer and market trends
- Hands-on with nutritional analysis tools such as Nutri Calc (or equivalent)
- Comfortable owning and driving critical paths, keeping projects and stakeholders aligned
- Experience delivering brand-led innovation from concept to launch
- Strong interest in nutrition, wellbeing, and emerging trends
- Positive, proactive problem solver who brings ideas and practical solutions to a fast-paced environment
More details
The Product Manager job (ref:9051) is paying approximately £50,000 depending on experience.
Benefits include 25 days holiday per annum, increasing to 27 days after 3 years’ service and 30 days after 5 years’ service; extensive benefits programme including optional extra holiday purchase, medical cash plan, access to mental health support, and more; flexible hours and progression opportunities; and a yearly bonus structure based on company targets.
This is a hybrid role requiring 1 day per week in the office, based on the South Coast in the Bournemouth area, with travel to trade shows and supplier sites across the UK and Europe.
The role is commutable from Weymouth, Dorchester, Sherborne, Salisbury, Southampton, and Shaftesbury.
Alternate job titles
- New Product Development Manager
- Head of NPD
- Head of Product Development
- Senior NPD Technologist
- NPD Supervisor
- Senior Development Technologist
- Food Product Development Jobs
- Food Manufacturing Development Jobs
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