New Product Development Assistant – Redgrave

Gressingham Foods; Redgrave; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in the UK seeks a New Product Development Assistant / Technician in Redgrave. The role involves managing development kitchens, preparing product samples, and liaising with suppliers. Ideal candidates should have kitchen experience, good communication skills, and a passion for food. The position offers flexible office hours and various employee benefits, including training opportunities and a staff shop.

Benefits

Reduced cost staff shop

Opportunities for further training and career progression

Private counselling support services

Auto enrolment pension available

Subsidised canteen serving hot food

Staff and family events

Monthly employee draw

Long service awards

Freebie Fridays

Qualifications

• Experience in a professional kitchen or catering environment is preferred.
• Full driver's license required.
• Confident cooking skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage New Product Development Kitchens and ensure hygiene standards.
• Prepare product samples for customer presentations and reviews.
• Liaise with ingredient suppliers and update internal paperwork.

Skills

Experience of working within a professional kitchen

Good written and verbal communication skills

Self-motivated and enthusiastic

PC literate with knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint

Job description

Gressingham Foods are the UK’s leading duck grower and manufacturer. Based in Redgrave, Suffolk.

Gressingham have an opening to recruit into their New Product Development team and would like to give the opportunity for a New Product Development Assistant / Technician to work in a small fast-paced team to develop and learn.

This role is office based in Redgrave 30 hrs per week across Mon – Friday between 7am – 6pm. Happy to be flexible to what suits the successful candidate. To start in January 2026. This is a maternity cover role.

Pay Rate: £13.65 per hour

The Role

• Day to day management of New Product Development Kitchens ensuring they are to the required hygiene standard, tidy and organised.
• Preparation of product concept samples for customer presentations, repeat samples for customer reviews and required samples for PR and Photography requests.
• Intake and management of all new ingredients arriving for the new product development.Liasing with ingredients suppliers.
• Help with the updating of internal paperwork, updating recipes, cooking trials etc
• Assist in the development of new product cooking instructions, then cooking validations.
• Liaising with Factory Production, Distribution, Technical regarding Raw material requirements, incoming and outgoing samples.
• Entering many areas of the factory daily, collecting meat/ingredients, working with production on trials, organization on development products in cold storage.
• Assistance with the organization of factory trials, (scale up from kitchen concept).
• Shopping for market reviews, customer presentations and visitor lunches.
• Organising of the diary for the customer sample schedule
• Possible support off site at customer presentations
• All relevant training will be given.
• Busy days full of variety, predominantly on your feet.

The Person

• Experience of working within a professional kitchen or catering environment
• Good knowledge and understanding of a factory environment – not essential.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced ever changing environment with a large range of projects.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and quick to learn.
• Able to multitask on a large variety of tasks and channeling in priority order.
• Full driver’s license required – ESSENTIAL.
• A passion for food… everything food
• Confident Cook
• Polite, professional, Self-motivated, personable & effective communicator at all levels
• Good organization skills
• Team player.
• PC Literate with knowledge of Excel, Power point etc
• Bubbly and Energetic
• Happy to Learn, not afraid to give it a go.

Benefits Include

• Reduced cost staff shop
• Opportunities to further train and develop further (career progression)
• Private counselling support services
• Auto enrolment Pension available
• Subsidised “Wild Duck Canteen” serving hot food and tasty snacks
• Staff and family events
• Monthly Employee Draw
• Long Service Awards
• “Freebie Fridays”

If this is a role you are interested in, please email [e-mail] your CV.