Product Developer

Greencore

Bourne

On-site

GBP 32,000 - 45,000

Full time

6 hours ago

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Job summary

Greencore in Bourne is seeking a Product Developer to drive new and existing recipes across fresh produce categories, balancing taste, cost and nutrition to deliver commercially viable products.

You will collaborate with chefs, technologists and commercial teams, manage recipe data, review feasibility, and support scale-up trials while upholding safety and quality standards.

The role offers the opportunity to contribute to a leading UK food producer with a strong focus on innovation and teamwork.

Qualifications

Proven experience in food product development.
Analytical and able to produce costings.
Experience from concept to launch.
Proven track record in validating products and documentation.
Confident presenting to all levels and customers.
Experience in people management.

Responsibilities

Develop new and modify existing recipes to meet briefs and cost targets.
Input and review recipes on the management system with cost, weight, and nutrition checks.
Assess new raw ingredients for operational and technical viability.
Prepare feasibility forms and handovers for internal and external use.
Lead product costing and balance quality with commercial targets.
Present benchmarking and new products to internal and customers.
Support scale-up trials to ensure production matches kitchen standards.
Provide leadership to ensure safety, engagement and development within the team.

Skills

Product development

Costing analysis

Concept to launch

Documentation

Customer presentations

People management

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.

Job Description

Job: Product Developer

Location: Bourne

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.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Product Developer to join our innovation team in Bourne where you will support the development across multiple fresh produce categories!

What You'll Be Doing

As a Product Developer, your role will be to develop new, and modify existing products, in line with written briefs, customer expectations and financial targets to create products of sustainable and repeatable quality and sustainable cost.

In this role you will be required to:

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

What We're Looking For

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.

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

What You'll Get In Return