Senior Product Developer (12 Month FTC)

What we’re after:

• Senior Product Developer 12 month FTC

Reporting Line:

• Senior NPD Manager

Lily’s Headquarters:

• Goodge Street, Fitzrovia (with hybrid working between the office and working from home)

Equality and Inclusiveness at Lily’s Kitchen:

At Lily’s Kitchen, we want to build and maintain a values-driven culture of trust and inclusion, one that empowers people safely and comfortably to express every characteristic of their personal identity and experience. We’re committed to supporting and encouraging a diverse and inclusive workforce. That means that whatever your ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age or status as an individual with a disability, you’ll get all the opportunities, respect and support you’d expect from a passionate business that cares about its people (as well as its pets). We strongly encourage people of colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and/or other people from underrepresented groups to apply. Lily’s Kitchen is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use.

Location:

This is a hybrid role, with a mix between working approximately 1-2 days a week (or more if you prefer) in our beautiful central London office (Goodge Street), with occasional visits to suppliers and working from home.

Your place at the Lily’s Kitchen Table:

How will I make a difference? You will:

• Lead NPD/EPD Pipeline Projects for your suppliers, taking full accountability for the Product responsibilities of our Stage Gate process. Manage the critical path for your projects to ensure timely delivery and to budget, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders. Manage this with minimal input from senior members of the team.
• Partner closely with Marketing, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Quality, Sustainability and Finance to ensure timely, compliant, compelling launches that achieve our commercial ambitions.
• Manage and support supplier relationships for quality, cost efficiency and delivery.
• Ensure packaging development, artwork approvals, and testing meet brand and regulatory standards.
• Develop specialist knowledge in the product development areas you run.
• Visit factories under your management as projects require.
• Set up and manage weekly calls, collating into action points and communicating back to your line manager only when necessary.
• Keep abreast of the market and trends, bringing new product launches to the attention of the team to spark innovation and challenge our thinking.

How will I be successful?

• A proven track record as a product developer within the FMCG industry.
• High attention to detail, with excellent planning and organisation skills to support the work schedule.
• The ability to use your initiative – being a self-starter with a positive ‘can do’ attitude and the desire to learn and grow, with a will to push for completion.
• Confident in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects.

Flexible Working:

Flexitime, working from home, part-time working, flexible support, faith based public holidays.

Save for the Future and Protect Loved ones:

A pension plan that goes beyond, the option for salary exchange and an option of an ethical pension fund reflecting our team’s attitudes and needs. Plus, a life assurance scheme to look after those that depend on you.

Staying healthy and well:

Our team’s health and wellbeing is very important to us and we offer private medical, private dental, employee assistance programme, mental first aiders and a cycle to work scheme (and an electric car salary sacrifice scheme).

Supporting our community:

With a volunteering allowance we can give back to causes we are passionate about. Plus supporting and having fun together as a team.

And more …

Lily’s Kitchen Story:

At Lily’s Kitchen we are pet food pioneers. We are changing the game with our mission to provide proper food for cats and dogs all over the world. Lily’s Kitchen was founded in London in 2009, by Henrietta Morrison who set out to feed her beloved dog, Lily, food she could trust. Lily’s Kitchen is now the No1 Brand in premium natural pet food, still focusing on the mission to inspire pet parents to feed their four-legged friends natural, proper food for pets. Lily’s Kitchen was a founding member of the UK B Corp movement and the first pet food brand in the world to achieve B Corp status. Determined to use business as a force for good, Lily’s Kitchen has recently partnered with Dogs Trust to support dogs in need and are proud to lend a paw to charitable causes. We sell our nutritious natural recipes for cats and dogs in over 1,000 stockists, like Waitrose, Tesco, Ocado, organic food shops, vets, independent pet shops and garden centres all over the UK. We also sell internationally and are now sold in more than 38 countries worldwide.

Our Vision:

We’re all about warming hearts, feeding souls and enriching lives, for both our customers and employees.

Our Values:

We recruit to our values at Lily’s Kitchen: Respectful. Dedicated. Audacious. Passionate. Responsible.

Our People:

We seek out and develop talented people who love to succeed and make a positive difference in everything they do.