Product Developer

Greencore Group; Worksop; Híbrido; GBP 32.000 - 42.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

Descripción de la vacante

Greencore is seeking a Product Developer at the Manton Wood site in Worksop to develop new and modify existing products in line with briefs, customer expectations and cost targets.

You will work with chefs and technologists to ensure recipes meet cost, weight and nutritional requirements, manage feasibility and scale-up trials, and contribute to innovative Food For Later category.

Formación

• 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 validating products and producing high quality documentation.
• Confident in presenting to all levels within the business and directly to customers.
• Experience in people management.

Responsabilidades

• Develop new and existing recipes into commercially viable products.
• Benchmark recipes regularly to gain market awareness for a competitive advantage.
• Input recipes onto the recipe management system and review accuracy for cost/weight/nutrition.
• Evaluate viability of new ingredients from operational, technical and development perspectives.
• Complete feasibility documentation and handovers for internal/external use.
• Run feasibility with cross-functional teams to ensure repeatability and scalability.
• Compile product costing information and balance quality with commercial targets.
• Present benchmarking and new products at internal/customer reviews.
• Follow critical path timelines and escalate delays to prevent launch issues.
• Assist scale-up production trials to ensure kitchen-to-production alignment.
• Provide leadership to keep the team safe, engaged and delivering.

Conocimientos

Product development

Costings

From concept to launch

Product validation & documentation

Presentation to stakeholders

People management

Descripción del empleo

Job: Product Developer

Location: Worksop

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 at our Manton Wood site where you will support the development across our Food For Later category!

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:

• Developnew 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

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

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.