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New Product Development Manager (Internal only)

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Job Introduction

We have an excellent opportunity for a motivated and ambitious individual to take on the role of New Product Development Manager in one of the most innovative and sustainable businesses – ENCIRC, in Elton, Chester.

Role Responsibility

  • Liaising with commercial to agree timelines based on the criteria, ensuring the customer needs are fully understood
  • Ensuring commercial/production parameters are agreed based on the difficulties of the bottle
  • Manage and direct the design function of the business
  • Liaise with forming department and quality to ensure trial process through to completion as per ongoing needs of production.
  • Liaising with planning regarding timing and scheduling of trials
  • Lead research for new products, product enhancements and product redesign

The Ideal Candidate

Business Knowledge

  • Background in glass knowledge of forming and design
  • Operated at a senior level within design or operations

Essential Functional / Technical Skills

  • Strong glass operations/forming knowledge
  • Excellent collaboration skills
  • Project management skills
  • Good negotiation, communication, and presentation skills.
  • Flexibility and ability to learn new skills, concepts, and processes.
  • Professionalism / attention to detail of work being carried out

Package Description

Salary: Competitive Salary + Discretionary Bonus

Benefits you'll love:

  • Annual bonus discretionary scheme
  • Annual leave package
  • Employee Well-being benefits
  • Social Club
  • Enhance Reward Platform with 100s of discounts at restaurants and retailers
  • Health Insurance Options
  • Accident Insurance Options
  • Professional Development Planning with onsite HR team
  • International organisation with plenty of opportunities

Work Pattern:  Mon-Thurs 8-5 Fri 8-2.30

About the Company

Encirc supplies container glass to some of the world’s largest food and beverage companies. Founded in County Fermanagh in 1998, Encirc has gone on to become one of the most innovative and sustainable businesses of its kind globally.

Part of the Spanish group, Vidrala, Encirc has three sites in NI, England and Italy. More than 3 billion bottles are made for the NI, UK and Irish markets each year and Encirc remains the only glass maker in the world to offer a complete beverage supply solution at its site in Cheshire.


We believe that our success as a business can only truly be measured by our impact on those around us and we’re working hard to ensure that impact is a positive and lasting one. From creating the world’s most sustainable glass bottle, to revolutionising how we run our furnaces, to being the only company of our kind to offer a full 360 approach to the beverage supply chain, Encirc creates flexibility and offers support, whilst minimising carbon impact.

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