Spanish Speaking Product Development Specialist – Food

Spanish speaking Product Development Specialist – Food

Surrey

Permanent role

Up to £42,000 per annum (depending upon experience) + benefits

Our client, a fourth party supplier (4PL) based in Surrey is looking to hire Product Development Specialist to join their operations team.

Responsibilities

Source products and suppliers with strong emphasis on product innovation.
Interact with suppliers in order to develop products or concepts that will increase customer’s satisfaction or increase sales.
Interact with design team to create packaging, labelling, support material as required
Manage the supply of samples and marketing material
Provide full and timely feedback to all suppliers when product reviews, client presentations and internal evaluations have been completed
Be aware of relevant trends and market research in order to support all sourcing and product development activities, conducting independent market research and trend analysis.
Projects manage new product development and sourcing initiatives ensuring appropriate communication internally and externally.
Support supplier performance management in conjunction with the Procurement and Operations team, in order to continuously improve service levels.
Collaborate with Operations team to resolve operational issues.
Analyse and make recommendations on sales prices, cost calculations and other supplier T&Cs
Produce cost calculation documentation for P&L review and consideration
Among other activities

Candidate:

* Excellent spoken & written level of English AND Spanish

* Experience on a similar position. Knowledge of food industry, developing new products

Good data and business analysis and reporting skills – literate and numerate
PC literate including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.
Negotiation skills would be an advantage
Able to travel up to 50% around EU.

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