Product Developer

Greencore; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Greencore, a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK, is seeking a Product Developer to join their Heathrow team. This role involves developing new products, ensuring quality standards, and leading product viability assessments. Join Greencore to be part of driving future success in a vibrant food manufacturing environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Access to a Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Proven experience in food product development within FMCG or food manufacturing.
• Proficient in all elements of product development from concept to launch.
• Track record of producing high-quality documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop new and existing recipes into commercially viable products.
• Ensure viability of new raw ingredients and challenge existing policies.
• Present products at internal and customer presentations.

Skills

Food Product Development

Analytical Skills

Presentation Skills

People Management

Job description

Why Greencore?

We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.

We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here at Heathrow, we are a growing team with around 450 colleagues. We produce chilled & hot eat Food for Now products including salads, sandwiches & wraps, Protein Pots & snacking. As well as Food for Later products such as ready meals & sides for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Amazon Fresh, Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Morrisons and Sainsbury's.

What You'll Be Doing

We have an fantastic opportunity for a Product Developer to join our Heathrow team.

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

• Proven experience in food product development, ideally within the FMCG or food manufacturing sector.
• 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
  
  

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What You'll Get In Return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
  
  

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