Product Developer

Greencore Group plc; Todwick; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

Job summary

Greencore Group plc is seeking a Product Developer to drive new and existing product development from concept through to successful launch. You will collaborate across five manufacturing sites, manage costings, and ensure quality, nutrition, and regulatory targets are met.

The role requires driving feasibility studies, documenting processes, and leading scale-up trials with cross-functional teams. Regular travel and a full UK driving licence are expected.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in food product development.
• Analytical; comfortable with costings and documentation.
• Proficient in all stages from concept to launch.
• Proven track record of validating products and producing high‑quality docs.
• Confident in presenting to colleagues and customers.
• Experience in leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop new and modify existing recipes to meet briefs, costs, weights and nutrition targets.
• Input recipes into the recipe management system and ensure accuracy.
• Assess viability of new ingredients from operational and technical viewpoints.
• Prepare feasibility and concept-to-process handovers with documentation.
• Lead scale-up trials and ensure production quality aligns with kitchen sign-off.
• Present benchmarking and new products at internal and customer meetings.
• Follow critical path timelines and escalate delays as needed.
• Provide leadership to keep the team safe, engaged and productive.

Skills

Product development experience

Costing analysis

Concept to launch proficiency

Documentation quality

Stakeholder presentation

People management

Job description

In this role, you'll support the development of innovative products from initial concept through to successful launch, collaborating across 5 manufacturing sites. 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

There will be regular travel required in this role and therefore a full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle is required.

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.

Requirements

• 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

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.

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.

We reserve the right to close the advert ahead of the specified closing date.