Senior Development Technologist

JR United Kingdom; Nantwich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in fresh prepared food is seeking a Senior Development Technologist for their Nantwich site. The role focuses on enhancing product innovation in line with customer requirements, offering a competitive salary and extensive benefits, including health care and bonuses.

Benefits

Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)

Private medical insurance

Annual Bonus Scheme

25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Staff Shop

Stakeholder Pension Scheme

Discount & cashback platform

Free health check

Employee Assistance Programme

Free car parking

Qualifications

• 1-2 years experience in a similar FMCG role within food industry required.
• Driven and motivated development technologist.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and create new products and processes to meet customer needs.
• Manage product development to meet margins and quality standards.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external standards.

Skills

Excellent PC skills

Strong organisational skills

Attention to detail

Engagement and communication

Creative and resilient

Commercial awareness

Team player

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Senior Development Technologist
We drive our own success.
Aston
Competitive Salary
Private Health Care
Bonus Scheme
25 Days Holiday plus bank holidays
Monday to Friday
8.30 - 5pm
Permanent
Why join us?
We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more.
About the role.
This is a great opportunity for a Senior Development Technologist to join Bakkavor to work at our Bakkavor site in Aston to support in the creation, management and delivery of the Development activity against the agreed Development plan.
Role Accountabilities

• Innovate new products and processes in response to customer briefs to maintain and grow a creative catalogue of products for our customers.
• Manage focused development of new products to deliver the required margin for our customers and the business.
• Able to develop new products to meet internal and external standards and requirements for a broader area of responsibility.
• Presents new product and process facts and ideas clearly, accurately and persuasively to customers internally and externally and cross functionally.
• Overall awareness of comparative products from all major retailers/competitors
• Working to a critical path plan, organises and controls resources to deliver products and processes to an agreed quality and timescale.
• Monitors and benchmarks product quality of new and existing products and raises issues with Development Manager

About you.
We are looking for a highly motivated, energetic development technologist with 1-2 years' experience from a similar FMCG role within the food industry. The key skills required for this role are:

• Excellent PC skills.
• Strong organisational and critical path management skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to engage and communicate across the business.
• Creative, resilient, and self-motivated with good time management skills
• Commercially aware
• Team Player

What you'll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you
You'll enjoy:

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Private medical insurance
• Annual Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Discount & cashback platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Free car parking - Site dependant

Proud to be Bakkavor
We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
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Bakkavor
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,000 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 3,000 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
Category: Development
Location:
Nantwich, GB, CW5 8DL
Date: 20 Jun 2025
Req ID: 25087

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