Harry Penwarden

The National has a wide range of income generating revenue streams including a food business that nets approx. £100m per annum. The food business operates under a centralized operating model with the National Development Team taking full responsible for the strategic development and implementation of a range of category propositions across 300 food outlets.

• Implemented the strategic development of the new outdoor food category from ideation through to product launch
• Extensive experience in piloting new food concepts
• Financial analysis of piloted concepts assessing P&L and ROI
• Organised and implemented incremental improvements based on operational feedback
• Built solid interdepartmental working relationships with both the National and Operational teams
• Direct involvement in unit build, equipment selection, operational guidance, POS, onsite testing and properly costed food offers
• Reputation for building high quality food offers that audiences enjoy
• NT Treasury confident on ROI, advocating for a larger roll out
• For the past two years, I have also been responsible for the Management of the ice cream category
• Responsibilities include driving commercial performance, setting operational standards and strategic direction for the category
• Extensive product knowledge built within this time
• Highlighted historical inaccuracies within the category with a conservative net saving of £500k being available
• My analysis work will allow the NT to leverage the supply base and improve category GP position significantly
• Conceptualisation of a financially sound and operationally effective soft serve offer
• Management of relationships with over 20 local ice cream suppliers
• Line management experience of one of the Development Chefs
• Strategic development of category briefs
• In 2020, I received a SAR award for being the best collaborator on a project, across all of commercial

Green Gourmet is a SME Food Business which specialises in the development of innovative food products across multiple industries. Responsible for the management and development of product concepts; from idea generation through to product launch.

• Daily management responsibilities of various EPD & NPD projects
• Line managed two development chefs
• Stakeholder management of influential buyers, suppliers and customers to make sure concepts launched successfully
• Developed products listed by American Airlines, British Airways, Delta, Qatar, TUI, Chelsea FC, Liverpool FC, catering contractors, coffee shops and the UK Primary Education sector
• Apply sound concepts and product design at kitchen level
• Process knowledge and experience of working in numerous different food processing factories including raw & cooked poultry, red meat, processed meats, fish, laminated dough's, pastries, pizza, sandwiches, hot hand held snacks and vegetarian dishes
• Gained a 2016 Mercury Innovation Award for my Sweet Potato Rosemary, Garlic & Chili infused Tempura fries.
• Created a range of Italian stone baked pizza twists for the travel industry with 2 million units sold in year 1 with Delta and British Airways

£500m turnover business specializing in the supply and development of finished centre plate proteins for the major UK Supermarkets, QSR brands, Stadia & Pub Groups.

• Customer facing Development Manager
• Managed the overall development process, successfully leading numerous projects from initial concept, through to launch
• Reviewed sales, customer concerns and new opportunities to drive NPD strategy at weekly planning sessions
• Responsible for managing the Tesco and Food Service accounts
• Successfully launched a wide variety of SKU's across a wide variety of food categories including; value added poultry, seasonal foods, poultry joints, Christmas party food and Asian snacks
• Created premium food demonstrations & menu ideas for senior personnel at Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Iceland, M&S and Subway
• Ideation: Highly involved in the initial stages of most projects given my experience as a chef
• Creating ingredient & product briefs for a range of suppliers & finished product manufacturers
• Technical Functions: In charge of checking and recording information on to the product specifications.