Job Details
Tasty Brands is a well-established, fast growing national company that is focused on providing great tasting, nutritious food for K12 school foodservice customers and private brands of selected retailers. With a focus on collaboration, best practices, and continuous improvement, we are looking for people who want to join us for a long career and be part of a great success story. Our most successful people are self-starters, work well in collaboration with others, see the big picture and like to win.
We have an outstanding team of motivated professionals who work well together in a fun and team spirit type atmosphere. Our mission is driven by our core values urgency, accountability, proactivity, teamwork, and integrity. We are looking for the next great fit to join our growing team!
Overview
The Product Development Manager will be involved with taking a product from an initial idea and transforming it into a physical product we sell. This position will be working strategically to manage products from conception to launch and plays a crucial role in ensuring products are delivered on time and within budget. The Product Development Manager will be responsible for negotiating with suppliers and working with internal teams to ensure the development of new products.
Job Requirements:
- Own the full end to end management of designated vendors and co-mans, from first contact to commercializing new SKU s and categories.
- Source ingredients, components, finished goods and packaging to construct a new product.
- Support cross functional team in resolving any obstacles or issues with vendors (supply planning, R&D, quality, etc.)
- Partner with suppliers to bring a continuous improvement mentality and strategy, to reduce cost and improve efficiencies while maintaining or improving quality, and adjust strategies based on changing business needs.
- Negotiate and manage vendors across multiple categories.
- Define product vision and strategy in alignment with business objectives and market trends.
- Leverage technical knowledge of products, ingredients, and components to build expertise on the operations of our suppliers.
- Work with the Manager to do periodic line reviews of existing items to ensure we are getting the right cost and quality.
- Conduct market research to identify customer needs and product opportunities.
- Use successful negotiation strategies to create contracts with optimal terms and establish supplier relationships that are most beneficial to the company.
- Manage and lead key strategic initiatives to optimize our vendor network and build a strong group of alternate suppliers.
- Develop and manage product roadmaps and budgets.
- Monitor product performance post-launch and incorporate feedback into future development.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulations, and best practices.
- Continuously analyze competitive offerings and market dynamics to stay up to date and improve product innovation.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience
- Operations or Supply Chain Management or other technical degree preferred
- Prior food or beverage sector or manufacturing experience
- Strong strategic planning, negotiating, and tactical decision-making skills
- High sense of urgency
- An innovative, out of the box thinker with a proven track record in launching successful new products
- Comfort and experience managing multiple projects at once, shifting priorities in a multi-tasking environment
- Requires excellent communications skills with the proven ability to lead, influence and motivate others
- Initiative-taking and strong analytical / problem solving skills
- Prior experience with competitive analysis
- Strong research skills
- Previous Project Management experience
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local laws.
*This position is not remote or hybrid - LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY*