Product Implementation Manager

Your next adventure? If you are seeking a dynamic role where you will be putting your quality, process and NPD knowledge to the test while reaping in all the success of launching various new products on behalf of our customers. We work with many of the big-name brands (retail and private label), all while we continue to grow the business year on year. We have an agile approach and would require someone who is capable of managing multiple projects at any one time. You will need to thrive in a reactive and fast-paced environment.

Product Implementation Manager – Refresco, Kegworth

(FMCG - new co-pack products/packaging, product launches, value engineering)

Permanent, Day shift Monday to Friday

Reward & Benefits:

•            10% Annual bonus

•            27 days annual leave + bank holidays

•            Option to purchase additional holidays

•            Good company pension

•            Life Assurance

•            GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling

•            Cheers – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well-being tools for all employees

What you’ll be doing as a Site Product Implementation Manager

To facilitate the launch of new customers, products, packaging, and processes into manufacturing. Acting as the link between Refresco manufacturing operations, the NPD team, and the customer to deliver the agreed technical KPI’s and objectives.

•            Facilitate and manage the transfer of NPD and new co-pack products/Packaging into manufacturing and co-ordinate new product launches ensuring all launches meet food safety, legal and customer requirements.

•            Implementation of process and packaging changes, ensure that all changes to processes are evaluated, risk assessed and documented.

•            Completion of all product, process and packaging trails required are to a satisfactory standard with clear objectives and measurable success criteria, ensuring the operations team are engaged.

•            Verification of new equipment, packaging or process, ensure that internal and external customer expectations are reviewed and where considered valid are built into Refresco protocols

•            New Process Risk Assessments, ensure any changes have been risk assessed and Refresco operating instructions updated taking into account the changes

•            HACCP for new process, equipment and packaging, ensure any new processes  have a validated HACCP in place

•            Facilitate and manage the implementation of value engineering projects in to manufacturing

•            Ensure existing equipment and process are re-validated in accordance with Refresco and customer standards.

•            Facilitate the operations teams to ensure new and existing products / packaging formats can run efficiently meeting customer expectations for service level.

•            Review of current processes and practice to drive continual quality improvement.

About you

You should be organised, persistent, and a strong team player who can also work alone and be able to achieve desired results through influencing people.

You will need to be experienced in manufacturing (food ideally) with good process, NPD knowledge. Packing and packaging knowledge is equally important as food knowledge.

You need to be able to multi-task and juggle multiple projects at once.

You would ideally be educated in Science or Food Technology or hold 5+ years of industry experience in a technical/quality role, and show demonstrable operational experience gained ideally in a FMCG environment.

About Refresco

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 14 billion litres of soft drinks from 78 manufacturing plants in Europe, North America and we've just opened in Australia, and we’re only just getting started. We have grown from just 2 sites in 1999. Our Group Headquarters are based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets, plus some of the best-known UK drinks brands such as Monster Energy, Ocean Spray, and Innocent.

From the purchasing of the raw materials such as fruit juices and CO2, through to the finished product delivered to your table, we cover the full manufacturing cycle for our customers. And, whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

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