Process Development Manager

Our Vacancies Ltd.; Selby; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Holidays

Pension contributions matching

Life insurance

Share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Greencore, Selby site, seeks a project-led PD professional to drive customer-focused product development from feasibility to launch. You will collaborate with teams to ensure timely, cost-effective delivery of new products that meet customer needs and financial targets.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional coordination and robust testing to ensure feasibility, sustainability and successful implementation. Fixed-term contract – 6 months, on-site at Selby.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high quality, sustainable, commercial products.
• Ability to lead multiple projects and prioritise.
• Understanding of food manufacturing principles.

Responsibilities

• Manage project PD activity to meet milestones and launches.
• Provide product knowledge and customer insight to ensure alignment with requirements and financial targets.
• Design, test and refine new product concepts from feasibility through implementation.
• Lead feasibility meetings and keep site teams informed and action-oriented.
• Oversee PD team through implementation, tracking progress and solving scale-up issues.

Skills

Project management

Multi-project leadership

Food manufacturing

Customer focus

Communication

Education

Food-related degree

Job description

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

Here at Selby we employ a team over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK’s number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914. We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda.

This is a Fixed Term Contract - 6 Months

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role you’ll work closely with your team to provide process, material and equipment knowledge in order to meet customer and Greencore’s requirements. You’ll also work closely with customers and other departments to ensure the projects run to plan, seeking feedback at all stages.

• Responsible for the project management of all customer and category PD activity to meet the critical path and feasibility plans and ensure successful right first-time launches
• Input product knowledge and customer insight within category team to ensure product development is aligned with all key customer requirements and meets financial measurements
• Introduce, refine and robustly test the design of new product concepts throughout creative and implementation stage to ensure the feasibility, sustainability and ability to meet commercial targets
• Lead feasibility meetings/internal reviews ensuring that site teams are kept informed of all activity updates and follow up actions are completed
• Lead the PD team throughout the implementation phase, tracking progress and resolving issues identified within scale up trials, to achieve timely implementation and hit targeted launch dates
• Custodian of product quality, ensuring accurate margin target delivery against the commercial brief
• Build and maintain customer relationships, acting as the dedicated customer/category contact, to provide accurate and consistent communication internally and externally whilst identifying and resolving issues promptly
• Stakeholder management of operational peers to promote collaborative ways of working and delivery of the NPD agenda
• Develop the team capability through task focused coaching to ensure maximum performance and development to their potential

What we’re looking for

• Experience of delivering high quality, sustainable, commercial products
• Ability to lead multiple projects and prioritise own and others focus accordingly
• Good understanding of food manufacturing principals demonstrated through feasibility of proposals
• Demonstrated leadership qualities
• Shows customer service values and is well respected by customers as a food authority
• Desired: food related degree

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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