Product Developer (15 month FTC)

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Kiveton Park

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GBP 36,000 - 48,000

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Job summary

Greencore is seeking a Product Developer in Kiveton on a 15-month Fixed-Term Contract to drive new product development from concept through launch. You will collaborate across five sites, develop recipes with chefs, input into the system and benchmark against market trends.

The role requires delivering commercially viable products with strong cost controls and robust documentation, with travel across sites and a UK driving license. This is a key part of the Meals & Quiche team.

Qualifications

Experience in food product development.
Strong cost analysis skills.
End-to-end product development from concept to launch.
Proven documentation quality in product projects.
Confident in presenting to all levels and customers.

Responsibilities

Develop new and modify existing recipes to meet briefs, cost and nutrition targets.
Benchmark recipes against market to gain competitive advantage.
Input recipes into the management system and verify accuracy for cost, weight and nutrition.
Assess new ingredients from technical and operational perspectives.
Lead cross-site collaboration across five manufacturing sites.
Present benchmarking and new products to internal and customer teams.
Support scale-up production trials to ensure process quality.
Provide leadership to keep the team safe, engaged and delivering to potential.

Skills

Food product development

Cost analysis

End-to-end product development

Documentation quality

Stakeholder presentation

People management

Job description

Job: Product Developer (15 month FTC)

Location: Kiveton

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 exciting opportunity for a Product Developer to join our Meals & Quiche team in Kiveton on a15-month fixed-term contract.

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:

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

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

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