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Head of New Product Development ( FOOD)

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ou will Lead the NPD and Process Development function, ensuring projects align with customer needs and business priorities. You will turn innovative concepts into factory-ready products, delivering to agreed standards, on time, and with smooth handover into operations.

This role combines strategic leadership, technical expertise, and project delivery, driving innovation, efficiency, and successful launches across the business.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

  • Lead, mentor, and develop the Development Team.
  • Foster collaboration, innovation, and high performance.

Product Development

  • Oversee projects from concept to launch.
  • Ensure stakeholder alignment and visibility throughout the process.
  • Deliver strategic short- and long-term innovation plans.

Project Management

  • Create and manage effective critical paths.
  • Act as key contact for customers, suppliers, and internal teams.
  • Ensure timely, compliant launches.

Cross-Functional Working

  • Partner with Technical, Operations, Supply Chain, Sourcing, and Commercial teams.
  • Support development of products, ingredients, packaging, and processes.

Commercial Focus

  • Manage costings from concept to post-launch review.
  • Track labour and yield efficiencies to validate margins.
  • Drive design-for-manufacture improvements.

Customer & Market Insight

  • Build strong retailer relationships.
  • Present concepts and market-led ideas confidently.
  • Apply food trends and formulation expertise to innovation.

Continuous Improvement

  • Lead process improvement initiatives.
  • Deliver operational efficiencies across new and existing products.

Experience & Qualifications

  • Degree in Food Science, Food Technology, or related field.
  • 10+ years in product development or similar.
  • 5+ years in an NPD leadership role.
  • Experience in chilled, short shelf-life food manufacturing.
  • Strong knowledge of UK retail environment.

Skills & Attributes

  • Excellent project and people management skills.
  • Strong commercial and technical understanding.
  • Influential communicator and relationship builder.
  • Passion for food innovation and manufacturing.
  • Confident presenter with strong IT skills.
  • Flexible, UK travel required, full driving licence essential.

Senior Business Development Manager

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Senior Business Development Manager

We’re partnering with a market-leading supplier of added value, innovative foods who are helping shape the future of foodservice menus across the UK.

This is a high-impact commercial role for a true hunter who loves winning new business, building strong customer relationships, and turning insight into growth.

The opportunity

You’ll take ownership of driving new business and growing key foodservice accounts across QSR, contract catering, manufacturers, and recipe box providers. You’ll also play a key role in shaping commercial strategy, pricing, and innovation direction.

What you’ll be doing

  • Win new business and grow strategic foodservice accounts

  • Build long-term relationships across QSR, wholesale, and manufacturing customers

  • Lead pricing, margin, and tender processes

  • Work closely with NPD and technical teams to deliver customer solutions

  • Identify and convert commercial growth opportunities

  • Support the development of annual sales and growth strategy

What we’re looking for

  • Strong background in foodservice, ingredients, QSR, or wholesale

  • Experience selling through or alongside Sysco, Bidfood or similar

  • Proven track record in new business and commercial growth

  • Strong understanding of margins, tenders, and account development

  • A genuine passion for food, innovation, and customer solutions

  • A proactive, ambitious “hunter” mindset

Why this role?

You’ll be joining a forward-thinking business at the forefront of food innovation, working with some of the most exciting foodservice customers in the market.

If you’re commercially driven and want to help shape the future of food solutions, we’d love to hear from you.

SEND Teaching Assistant

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Teaching Assistant to support pupils with SEND

SEN Teaching Assistant – Cranborne

Salary: £22996 – £25068 per year based on 40 hours per week, term time only
Contract: Full time, permanent position.

Start date: As soon as possible or September 2026

School Staffing Solutions are working with a school in Cranborne who require an SEN Teaching Assistant.

The school believe in giving young people, ages 11-16, the tools and opportunities to create the lives they want for themselves. With high-quality teaching, an excellent level of individual support and a range of expert-led, integrated therapy, we support all our young people with a range of needs including Autism and other associated conditions. We can take advantage of our beautiful setting to inspire and create fun experiences to enhance learning and progress.

Positive role modelling and flexibility is key in this role, including 1:1 support in both an academic and vocational setting such as Bushcraft, animal care and life skills.

Key Duties:

  • Working alongside the teaching staff to support learning and provide further explanation to young people where needed.
  • Taking responsibility for Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our young people at all times
  • Supporting our young people to identify, meet and exceed their Education and Healthcare plan targets.
  • Implementing and supporting positive behaviour throughout the school, adapting own behaviour and responses when required to meet individual needs.
  • Ensuring all accidents, incidents, or health & safety documentation is accurately recorded as per the school’s policies.
  • Assisting our young people in attending a wide range of group activities, ensuring that choices are respected, with appropriate social interactions and friendships encouraged.

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

  • The ability to manage a range of approaches to behaviour, including managing behaviours that challenge.
  • A desire to put young people first and treat them as individuals.
  • Able to be positive and creative in meeting the needs of young people and enhancing their outcomes.
  • Able to work collaboratively with good interpersonal skills.
  • Good numeracy, literacy and ICT skills.
  • Able to work within the parameters of the physical demands of the job role.

Qualifications:

  • GCSE English and Maths qualification – minimum grade 4 or equivalent is beneficial.

Please send your CV to amy@school-staff.co.uk or contact me on 07442087457 and we shall be in touch with successful candidates.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, suitable employment references and online searches to safeguard our young people. In addition, this post is exempt from the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974.

School staffing solutions are acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.

SEND Teaching Assistant

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Teaching Assistant to support pupils with SEND

SEN Teaching Assistant – Wimborne

Salary: £22996 – £25068 per year based on 40 hours per week, term time only
Contract: Full time, permanent position.

Start date: As soon as possible or September 2026

School Staffing Solutions are working with a school in Wimborne who require an SEN Teaching Assistant. The school prepare our students for adult life, through person-centred academic and vocational study programmes leading to independent living with employment or further study. By working together, we increase resilience, confidence, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and well-being: the cornerstones on which strong and successful long-term futures are built.

The main purpose of the role: 

As a Teaching Assistant, your role is essential to the support and development of our students being successful, independent, and achieving in a safe and caring learning environment. You will build a professional & trusted relationship with the students which put their health, safety and overall development first. This role will include supporting our teaching staff to deliver on a daily basis a broad and balanced curriculum for our students both on and off site. Flexibility is key in this role and may include working 1:1 with a student when required, or supporting in class working with a small group. Positive behaviour management is an important part of the role.

Key duties:

  • Support and facilitate the learning and independence of our students.
  • Contribute to planning, preparation, implementation and evaluation of education programmes, plans and reports as required.
  • Contribute to assessing, recording, and reporting on young peoples’ progress
  • Promote and encourage independence at all times.
  • Keep records accurately and up-to-date
  • Ensure safeguarding and health and safety procedures are followed at all times
  • Promote the development of positive social behaviours and self-regulation skills

Whilst previous experience isn’t essential; the ability and desire to build a professional & trusted relationship with our young people is.

Successful candidates qualities:

Full UK driving licence and access to your own car

  • Level 2 or equivalent in Maths and English
  • Please note that the minimum age to work on site is 21
  • Be positive and creative in meeting young person’s needs
  • Be able to work on your own as well as part of a team
  • Good numeracy and literacy skills
  • Competent ICT skills

Please send your CV to amy@school-staff.co.uk or contact me on 07442087457 and we shall be in touch with successful candidates.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, suitable employment references and online searches to safeguard our young people. In addition, this post is exempt from the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974.

School staffing solutions are acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.

SEND Teaching Assistant

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SEN Teaching Assistant – Surrey

Salary: £13.51 – £14.45 per hour (£24,139 – £25,819 actual salary dependant on qualifications) Plus £1000 Welcome bonus *

Hours: 40 hours per week – Term Time only – Start time 8.15am – Finish time Monday/Wednesday/Thursday 4.45pm. Tuesday 5pm and Friday 4pm

Start date: As soon as possible

School Staffing Solutions are working with a school in Surrey who require an SEN Teaching Assistant. The school supports pupils aged 6-11 with communication difficulties linked to Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC). Although it is an SEN primary school, many of the students are working at least 2 academic years behind their chronological age.

Why Join Us?

  • Support our broad and creative curriculum offer.
  • Work with a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team.
  • Be part of an organisation that invests in staff wellbeing and development.
  • You’ll make a real difference in the lives of our students and their families.

Key Duties:

  • To establish a warm, caring and supportive relationship with pupils in order to support them feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn during their time at the School.
  • To promote and encourage independence and personal development
  • Support the Class Teacher in all areas of the day to day running of the class
  • To respond to the varying and changing needs of the school and adapt to any task presented to achieve the smooth running of the school. Some physical intervention may be needed upon occasion, full training on this will be provided.
  • To promote pupils’ cognitive, social, emotional, behavioural, physical development and spiritual well-being.

Skills and Qualifications

  • GCSE Maths and English qualification minimum Grade 4 or equivalent.
  • Level 2 or 3 Teaching Assistant Qualification (desirable but not essential)
  • Experience of working in a special school environment is highly desirable.
  • Team TEACH Training is desirable

Please send your CV to amy@school-staff.co.uk or contact on 07442087457 and we shall be in touch with successful candidates.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, suitable employment references and online searches to safeguard our young people. In addition, this post is exempt from the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974.

School staffing solutions are acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.

Field Service Engineer

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Major Recruitment Huddersfield are currently seeking Field Service Engineers based in the Gloucester/Cheltenham areas

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well established and growing company who are seeking Field Service Engineers to cover two sites across Gloucester and Cheltenham areas.

Main Purpose of the Role

Under the supervision of your line manager, carry out repairs and servicing of all Dour clients and competitors’ equipment, when requested. To install, collect and exchange all the said equipment when requested. To carry out product cleaning in line with the company infection control policy and turnaround servicing of all products. To accurately record and keep all necessary paperwork and administration documentation in pursuance of the job objectives, ensuring the same is submitted to the right place, in the required timescales. To carry out any other work which may be requested by your superior not specified herein and within the overall purpose of the job as defined within this document.

Main Responsibilities

  • Efficiently carry out servicing on a range of company and competitor products
  • Efficiently carry out repairs on a range of company and competitor products
  • Ensure all work carried out is of a high standard and quality.
  • Effectively plan your day to ensure as many repairs and services can be completed in one day.
  • Travel between 2 main sites
  • Communicate effectively and efficiently with your team members, manager, and the Service Customer Solutions Advisors.
  • Good manual handling skills are essential (e.g., moving equipment, working in cramped or restricted position)
  • Driving is a major part of the role so good driving skills and attention for detail is required.
  • Ensure all company procedures are followed, including infection control, health & safety etc.
  • Manage stock levels on your company van and ensure all stock procedures are followed.
  • Complete and return all paperwork, ensuring it is correct, legible, and returned within expect time frames.
  • Carry out regular inspections on your company vehicle and report any issues to you line manager.
  • Look after company equipment and report any equipment issues to your line manager.
  • To be pro-active and anticipate problems or needs and be able to manage these or seek assistance from there manager when in doubt.
  • All Field Service Engineers will join the on-call rota, the frequency will be determined by your line manager
  • Any other duties as and when required by management that are reasonably within the capabilities of the person and are aimed at achieving the company’s objectives and goals

Experience

  • Proven experience servicing, maintaining, and repairing medical devices in clinical or healthcare environments
  • Hands-on experience with equipment such as patient monitors, infusion pumps, diagnostic systems, or imaging devices
  • Strong fault-finding and troubleshooting skills on electrical, electronic, and electromechanical systems
  • Experience performing preventative maintenance, calibration, and safety testing
  • Knowledge of UK healthcare regulations and standards (e.g., MHRA, ISO 13485)
  • Experience working in hospitals or alongside biomedical/clinical engineering teams
  • Ability to interpret technical manuals, schematics, and service documentation
  • Experience using diagnostic tools, test equipment, and calibration instruments
  • Strong customer-facing experience, providing technical support and training to clinical staff
  • Experience managing service reports, documentation, and compliance records
  • Ability to work independently in field-based roles and manage time effectively
  • Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to customer sites

Excellent salary and benefits package

Monday to Friday

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Category Marketing Manager

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Role Overview

The Category Manager turns shopper and market data into clear, actionable insights that drive category growth for both the business and retail partners. Blending data analysis with category strategy and customer leadership, this role shapes ranging, merchandising, pricing and promotional decisions.

Acting as the bridge between commercial, marketing and retail teams, the focus is on ensuring decisions are insight‑led and rooted in real shopper behaviour.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver an insight‑driven category strategy that unlocks sustainable growth
  • Build strong, influential relationships with key retail partners
  • Identify opportunities through shopper insight, market trends and competitor analysis
  • Partner with Brand teams to embed category and consumer insight into innovation plans
  • Turn complex data into compelling stories that influence customers and internal teams
  • Champion the voice of the shopper by understanding missions, behaviours and drivers
  • Lead shopper insight projects that deliver clear commercial recommendations

Core Competencies

Leading Performance

  • Takes ownership, delivers to high standards and follows through on commitments

People & Talent

  • Supports development through coaching, feedback and inclusive collaboration

Business Awareness

  • Applies commercial understanding to interpret data and support sound decision‑making

Leading Change

  • Positively supports change and keeps teams engaged and outcome‑focused

Collaborating & Influencing

  • Uses insight and strong communication to influence and build trusted partnerships

Brand Manager

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This role owns and leads the strategy and delivery of a flagship brand, while supporting a wider brand portfolio. You’ll shape medium‑ to long‑term growth, bring the business on the journey, and inspire strong brand guardianship across teams. Highly organised and collaborative, you’ll connect insight, creativity and commercial thinking to drive standout results.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver annual brand plans aligned to a longer‑term strategy
  • Use consumer insight, category trends and competitor analysis to unlock growth opportunities
  • Bring brand strategy to life for key partners through compelling, standout presentations
  • Lead agency partners to deliver consistent, high‑impact activity across all channels
  • Drive innovation, launching seasonal and limited‑edition products from concept to market
  • Manage a rolling 3‑year innovation pipeline and day‑to‑day product lifecycle
  • Shape and execute a digital and social content strategy to boost engagement
  • Oversee brand P&L, marketing spend and ROI, identifying opportunities to optimise profit
  • Work cross‑functionally with operations, NPD and suppliers to ensure smooth delivery
  • Support the development and evolution of the brand as a scalable franchise proposition

About You

  • Degree‑level (ideally business or marketing related)
  • 3+ years’ experience managing and growing a brand, including launches and campaigns
  • Confident working with agencies and cross‑functional teams
  • Commercially astute, organised and solutions‑focused
  • Passionate about brands, consumers and delivering results

What Success Looks Like

  • Strong customer focus and collaborative mindset
  • Takes ownership and leads with confidence
  • Adapts quickly in a fast‑moving environment
  • Builds trusted partnerships inside and outside the business
  • Makes decisions with clear commercial impact

Property Manager

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Property Manager

Bradford

Permanent

35 hrs pw

£29,000 – £30,000 per annum

We are currently working on behalf of a charity based in Bradford to recruit for a Property Manager. The role is offered on a permanent basis.

Responsibilities of the Property Manager:

  • Conducting health and safety visits to properties
  • Identifying any health and safety or safeguarding issues
  • Liaising with landlord partners when taking on new properties and ensuring that all paperwork and health and safety standards are met, including any repairs carried out
  • Ensuring stock condition surveys, and images are taken for any new leased accommodation
  • Ensuring maintenance spreadsheets are audited on a weekly basis and any issues identified are followed through with the relevant team until works are signed off
  • Assessing how effective the organisations health and safety, fire and safeguarding practices are being delivered

To be considered for this exciting role, please contact Bethan Hall -Director, at Hamilton Woods on 01509 276158 or apply online with a covering note of your experience and suitability referencing the job ID number. Due to the exceptionally high level of applications if you have not heard back from HWA within 7 – 10 days, it is regrettable that we cannot reply to everyone with feedback directly and please assume you have been unsuccessful

Welder & On‑Site Engineer

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Welder & On‑Site Engineer

Workshop based in Nottingham, with regular site work across the East Midlands

Due to continued growth and a strong order pipeline, we are looking to recruit a Welder & On‑Site Engineer to join our well established clients skilled and supportive team. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, combining workshop fabrication with hands‑on site installation, mechanical repair, and practical engineering work.

You will work both independently and as part of a close‑knit team, contributing to the manufacture, installation, and maintenance of steel structures and mechanical components.

Working Hours & Pay

  • Minimum 42.5 hours per week
  • Regular overtime available
  • Pay rate up to £17 per hour, dependent on experience and skill level
  • Monday to Friday role (exact start/finish times discussed at interview)

Key Responsibilities

Workshop-Based Duties

  • MIG welding of mild steel components to drawings and job specifications
  • General steel fabrication using workshop equipment (cutting, drilling, grinding, preparation)
  • Assembly of fabricated items including handrails, platforms, safety barriers, frames, and brackets
  • Carrying out quality checks to ensure fabricated items meet company and customer standards
  • Supporting general workshop operations, including material handling and job preparation
  • Maintaining a clean, organised, and safe working environment
  • Assisting with continuous improvement of fabrication processes and efficiency

On-Site Engineering & Installation Duties

  • Installation of fabricated steel items at customer sites
  • Carrying out basic on‑site welding repairs where required, including remedial works
  • On‑site fabrication and fitting to resolve installation challenges
  • Working on Anaerobic Digestion plants, including replacing simple pumps and carrying out basic mechanical tasks
  • Attending container hire customer sites for minor structural repairs and welding work
  • Diagnosing and resolving straightforward mechanical issues under supervision or instruction
  • Working safely on industrial and agricultural sites in line with RAMS and site procedures
  • Communicating professionally with clients while representing the company on site

Skills & Experience Required

Essential

  • Previous on‑site fitting or engineering experience
  • Some MIG welding experience (workshop or site based)
  • Familiarity with steel fabrication tools and equipment
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
  • Strong work ethic with the ability to meet deadlines and follow instructions
  • Full UK driving licence
  • Own transport and ability to travel within reasonable distance of Nottingham

Desirable (Not Essential)

  • Experience working on industrial plant, agricultural sites, or AD plants
  • Basic mechanical repair or maintenance experience
  • Ability to read and work from fabrication or installation drawings
  • Site welding experience
  • CSCS card or willingness to obtain
  • Working knowledge of health & safety practices on construction or industrial sites

What We Offer

  • A varied role with a strong mix of workshop and site work
  • Long‑term, stable employment with an established accredited company
  • Overtime opportunities to increase earnings
  • Supportive team environment with experienced engineers
  • Opportunity to develop skills across fabrication, site engineering, and mechanical work
  • Exposure to a wide range of projects and customer environments

If this sounds like the role for you, APPLY TODAY! or call us and ask for Adriana for more information

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