NPD Bakery Lead Chef & Innovator

Bright Blue Foods Limited; Hull and East Yorkshire; Sur place; GBP 45 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Pension

Life Assurance/Death in Service

Company Shop access

25 days holiday

GP access

Bereavement service

Learning & Development

Online training platform

BBF Star Awards

Onsite parking

Onsite canteen

Onsite Cake Shop

Résumé du poste

BBF Limited in Hull is seeking an experienced NPD Lead Development Chef / Technologist to drive bakery product innovation. You will shape portfolio direction by turning trends and customer briefs into market-leading recipes and samples for major retailers and foodservice customers.

You will work in a lively NPD team, translating insights into concepts, ensuring timely delivery, and collaborating across cross‑functional teams while maintaining brand standards and quality at every stage.

Qualifications

• Experience in food NPD or development chef role, ideally bakery.
• Ability to move concepts through development stages to final product.
• Food science/culinary qualification desirable.
• Proficient with PLM processes and office tools.
• Strong communication and project management skills.

Responsabilités

• Proactively develop creative, innovative recipes across chilled, frozen and ambient bakery categories.
• Translate market trends and consumer insights into new concepts meeting customer needs.
• Create commercially viable products aligning with manufacturing capabilities.
• Deliver NPD projects across the group to meet critical path timings.
• Communicate effectively with customers and cross‑functional teams.
• Be hands-on, preparing samples in the test bakery to high standards.
• Manage projects from start to finish, independent and on time.
• Develop for specific customer areas (e.g., Morrisons, Asda, foodservice).
• Understand and apply customer brand standards for accounts.

Connaissances

NPD / New Product Development

Recipe Development

Bakery experience

Project Management

Communication Skills

PC Literacy (Excel/PowerPoint/Word)

Formation

Food science/technology or culinary qualification

Outils

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

PLM software

Description du poste

BBF Limited in Hull is seeking an experienced NPD Lead Development Chef / Technologist to drive bakery product innovation. You will shape portfolio direction by turning trends and customer briefs into market-leading recipes and samples for major retailers and foodservice customers.

You will work in a lively NPD team, translating insights into concepts, ensuring timely delivery, and collaborating across cross‑functional teams while maintaining brand standards and quality at every stage.