'Creative, motivated  and competent, with a passion for food and a flair for NPD,  ability to utilise key skills within the product development sector'

  • BA Degree Home Economics
  • HND Home Economics

Uniq Prepared Foods
Development Manager
Responsible for developing and creating new sandwich and snacking chilled foods for M&S,in a fast paced, manufacturing environment. Working on an account in excess of 20million pounds, the role involved leading a team of three technologists and a chef to increase Uniq's market share of M&S products.
Responsibilities

  • Market research covering competitor audits, benchmarking, restaurant visits, gap analysis and food trends
  • Research and development of product concepts
  • Evaluating new supplier quality systems and services to ensure compliance with legislative and retailer requirements and HACCP
  • Working with factory to drive quality forward
  • Interfacing with M&S and other departments within the organization, negotiating and presenting on a regular basis
  • Product costings
  • Nutritional analysis
  • Factory trials and launches

Hazlewood Foods
Senior Category Development Technologist
Developing new chilled pizzas for J Sainsbury. The role involved ensuring both suppliers and factory meet and adhere to customer standards when launching new products.

Buckingham Foods
Senior Development Technologist
Responsible for developing and maintaining Boots sandwiches and Shapers range through innovation, a key grasp of trends in the marketplace and a sound understanding of customer requirements

Adams Food Ingredients
Technologist
A varied and challenging role, with a strong quality focus. Duties included daily factory audits, helping to implement ISO9002 within the department, and regular quality checks on product.

Qualifications

  • Food Hygiene – Spain
  • Clean driving licence
  • Spanish language at intermediate level
  • Intermediate Food Hygiene - credit
  • Qualified Internal Auditor ISO9002
  • HACCP Implementation
  • PC Applications - Word, EXCEL, Powerpoint, Lotus applications and Internet
  • Professional presentation skills - Reed Training

References

I can provide references from previous employment and contracts upon request

 

 
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