Product Developer (6 month FTC)

Our Vacancies; Northampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food company in Northampton is seeking a Product Developer for a 6-month FTC to develop and modify products according to customer expectations and financial goals. Ideal candidates should have proven experience in food product development, strong analytical skills, and the ability to present effectively. The role offers competitive salary and benefits, including holidays and pension contributions.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

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.
• Comfortable with producing and reviewing costings.
• Proficient in product development from concept to launch.
• Proven track record of validating products and producing documentation.
• Confident in presenting to business levels and customers.

Responsibilities

• Develop new and existing recipes into commercially viable products.
• Create and review recipes with the chefs to meet specifications.
• Ensure the viability of new raw ingredients.
• Complete and approve relevant documentation for accuracy.
• Compile product costing information balancing quality with standards.
• Present products at internal and customer presentations.
• Assist in scale-up production trials for quality assurance.

Skills

Food product development

Analytical skills

Presentation skills

People management

Job description

Opportunity: Product Developer (6 month FTC)

Location: Northampton

Why Greencore

We’re one of the UK’s leading producer 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 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.8bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

What you’ll be doing

We have an interim opportunity for a Product Developer to join our team at Northampton.

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

• 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
• 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.