NPD Project Manager

Location: melbourne
Job Type: permanent
Salary: $$$
Contact: Robert Scacco
About the business 

Our client is a highly recognisable national brand with a dedication to bringing excellent product to customer and community. The business has undergone an impressive growth cycle, scaling significantly with a mix of innovation and investment. Forward-thinking and agile in its thinking, you'll be joining a business with a "big" feel but the ability to quickly adapt to meet market trends.

About the role 

The NPD Project Manager role is a critical new appointment to tie together cross-functional projects, focussed on getting innovative food product to market, while meeting the requirements of a more robust StageGate process. You will be working with a stakeholder group across technical, supply chain, marketing and operations among others, initially focussing on short term "sprint" projects while looking at longer lead time business continuity projects concurrently. In this role, you can expect:

  • End to end cross-functional project delivery, reporting into a senior functional manager
  • Working across a diverse mix of projects, including product, packaging, seasonal offerings and value engineering
  • Exposure to customer-led innovation - tapping into market insights and consumer data to engage with your core buying portfolio

What we're looking for 
  • Tertiary background in food science/chemistry/microbiology or similar - this is a technical innovation PM role, so a grounding in these subject matters
  • Demonstrated experience in either a formalised Project Manager role, or a Food Technologist/Innovation role working on end to end project management and delivery 
  • High level communication skills, able to deliver technical subject matter expertise to non-technical stakeholders across other functional disciplines
  • Data driven approach - someone who can infer from insights and extrapolate that to tangible, business-centric outcomes


What next
Hit APPLY NOW for consideration or connect with me directly, via RobertS@sde.com.au or on 0419 754 442 for a confidential discussion

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