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Product Developer - Hybrid

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset
Salary
£35,000 - £42,000
Closing date
29 Feb 2024
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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Quality Assurance, Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Product Developer (hybrid)

£35,000 - £42,000
‎South Coast
‎Food Manufacturing
‎Job ref: 8590

The company

This manufacturer pride themselves on developing only the best of organic products with an exemplary focus on climate-friendly farming, our environment and how the impact of the manufacturing process has a planetary impact.

About the Product Developer job

The purpose of your role will be to develop innovation and renovation projects for a particular category ensuring they are delivered on time and to strategy.

Key tasks

-Investigate feasibility of food ideas and actively participate in the creation of food briefs with marketing and other stakeholders.

-Develop and deliver tasty and nutritious foods that meet consumer, brand and business needs whilst ensuring standards are met in line with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

-Industrialisation - ensuring with supply partners and other functions that new products are scaled up and implemented in line with briefs.

-Attend factory trials and launches taking responsibility for delivery of the foods.

-Contribute to problem resolution and continuous improvement with the finished goods supplier.

-Testing and evaluating alternative raw materials with suppliers to assure contingency / cost saving.

-Presenting products to key stakeholders.

About You

You will be degree qualified within Food Science / Technology or related subject and have at least 4 years’ experience within a similar role. In addition, you will:

-Be self-motivated with drive and discipline, always prepared to go the extra mile.

-Possess great knowledge of food production and processing.

-Be resourceful and able to multitask.

-Be a team player, collaborative, trusted by peers and approachable.

-Experience working across a wide variety of foods and processing technologies plus experience working with external partners – third party manufacturers would be desirable.

More details

The Product Developer job is based on the South Coast and is paying £35,000 - £42,000 according to your experience.

The working hours are full-time flexi hours, but 2 days are required in the office and you need to be happy to travel abroad.

Alternate job titles

New Product Development Technologist | NPD Technologist | Food Technologist | NPD Technician | Product Development Technician | NPD Assistant | Food Product Development Jobs

 

Company

Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,

Our core values are always:

  • to find the very best job for you - not us!
  • to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
  • to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you

We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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