Innovative Food Product Developer - 15M FTC, Northampton

Our Vacancies Ltd.; Northampton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Share save scheme

Qualifications

Employee discount

Wellbeing resources

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Greencore in Northampton is recruiting a Product Developer on a 15 month fixed-term contract to shape M&S food-for-now products from concept to launch. You will develop new recipes and adapt existing ones to meet cost, weight, nutritional targets and customer briefs, benchmarking regularly to stay competitive.

You will collaborate with chefs, technicians and the commercial team, manage feasibility and recipe data, oversee scale-up trials and ensure documentation is accurate, accessible and

Qualifications

• Proven experience in food product development.
• Analytical; comfortable with producing and reviewing costings.
• Proficient in all elements of product development from concept to launch.
• Proven track record of successfully validating products and producing high quality documentation.
• Confident in presenting to all levels within the business and directly to customers.
• Experience in people management.

Responsibilities

• Develop new and existing recipes into commercially viable products, benchmarking regularly to gain awareness of the market for a competitive advantage.
• Create recipes alongside the chefs, input recipes onto the recipe management system and review the accuracy of all recipes inputted by the product technologist and chefs to ensure they meet cost, weight and nutritional requirements.
• Ensure the viability of new raw ingredients from an operational, technical and product development perspective to bring innovation and challenge to existing Greencore policies and practices.
• Complete and/or review and approve all relevant documentation (feasibility forms, customer submission forms, concept to process handovers etc.) to ensure accuracy of information shared internally and externally.
• Put all products through the feasibility process; working with the commercial, operations, technical and purchasing teams to solve any issues to ensure concepts are repeatable, sustainable and scalable.
• Compile product costing information and adapt recipes to balance food quality with achievement of commercial brief targets within customer brand standards.
• Present benchmarking, existing (EPD) and new products (NPD) at internal and customer presentations, passionately demonstrate good market and food trends awareness, to achieve product approval.
• Follow the critical path time lines as directed, escalating incomplete tasks and deficiencies in testing, to ensure that mitigating action can be taken to prevent delays in product acceptance and launch.
• Assist the process team with the scale up production trials, as required, to ensure production quality matches the kitchen quality signed off by the customer.
• Provide leadership and direct to ensure that across the team people are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed an delivery to their potential

Skills

Proven experience in food product dev

Analytical with costings

Proficient from concept to launch

Product validation & docs

Presentation to stakeholders

People management

Job description

Greencore in Northampton is recruiting a Product Developer on a 15 month fixed-term contract to shape M&S food-for-now products from concept to launch. You will develop new recipes and adapt existing ones to meet cost, weight, nutritional targets and customer briefs, benchmarking regularly to stay competitive.

You will collaborate with chefs, technicians and the commercial team, manage feasibility and recipe data, oversee scale-up trials and ensure documentation is accurate, accessible and