Development Manager
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Business Communication: Has effective internal working relationships across key functions to ensure the delivery of the Development process activity.
- Leadership: Manages and supports the team to effectively deliver the development activity to the highest standard, ensuring delivery of projects through critical path management
- Customer: Has good overall awareness of retailer development requirements and their relevant brand standards. Has effective customer relationships.
- Culinary: Has the ability to present product to internal and external customers. Demonstrates culinary knowledge and expertise
- Category Management: Has an understanding of category management principles and the ability to apply them.
- Product Innovation: Has a good awareness of relevant food trends, uses all mediums to generate ideas and has the ability to funnel and prioritise.
- Business Knowledge: Fully understands relevant site capabilities and has an understanding of broader Group capabilities.
- Product Development Cycle: Manages the internal business development process ensuring product development delivers in line with customer and business expectations.
- Market Awareness: Has an overall awareness of relevant product ranges in the market. Monitors and benchmarks product quality and escalates issues.
- Pipeline Management: Responsible for ensuring all product development is clear and accurate on sector pipeline document.
- Behaviours: Attention to detail, fast paced, positive, dynamic, creative, tenacious, resilient, alignment to BV values.
- 1-2 years experience from a similar FMCG role with the food industry
- Excellent organisational, investigative problem solving and communication skills
- Drive, energy and enthusiasm
- Previous experience of working within a results orientated team
- Good standard of IT skills to include power point, word and excel
- Customer experience
- People management skills
- Innovative
- Critical thinking skills
- Critical path management
- Full UK Driving licence {Location dependent}
- Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
- Private medical insurance
- Annual Bonus Scheme
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
- Staff Shop
- Stakeholder Pension Scheme
- Discount & cashback platform
- Personal Accident Insurance
- Free health check
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
- Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
- Free independent mortgage advice
- Discounted tutoring for children
- Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
- Free car parking - Site dependant