Product Development - Food / CPG / Manufacturing

Primary functions

• Develop new everyday and seasonal food items for private label customers
• Own and manage entire product development process from new item concept through to first production run
• Provide leadership and foster effective cross-functional team collaboration (R&D, Packaging, Purchasing, Production, and Creative) to launch products successfully and on time
• Lead customer pricing process of new items; work with Production and suppliers to ensure costs and assumptions are accurately captured in pricing models
• Work closely with Sales team to partner on development of new products as requested by key customers and manage process to create samples and pricing
• Partner with Marketing to provide clear direction of look and feel for new items as well as positioning in sales collateral and e-commerce
• Oversee costing models for all product development customer inquiries including manufacturing, labor, raw materials, packaging, and transportation
• Analyze product formulas to determine loss and yield and update often to ensure accurate costing
• Collaborate with production team to verify labor output and confirm all costs are accurate and reflected in costing models
• Deliver pricing recommendation which meets company and customer profit margin benchmarks, while ensuring a competitive retail price to the consumer
• Perform ongoing analysis of costing model to maintain accurate costs and customer pricing
• Monitor and manage on-time responses to customers’ RFQs

Category Management

• Analyze and understand category statistics and business implications
• Identify competitive white space and new product opportunities
• Develop strategic plans and recommendations for product line execution

Efficiencies

• Identify and implement process improvement opportunities

Core Values

• One Team: Collaboration and alignment across all departments
• Innovation & Adaptability: We welcome change and act proactively
• Customer-Centric: Our customers’ growth is our growth
• Execution with Excellence: We focus on impact and results
• Data-Driven Decisions: We act on insights and validate our approach