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Product Development Technologist

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Slough, Berkshire
Salary
to £35,000
Closing date
23 Feb 2025
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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Development
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

We are seeking a talented individual to join a leading provider of premium quality products to food manufacturers, foodservice, and retailers throughout the UK. The business has undergone significant growth due to its dedication to exceptional customer service and high-quality products.

About the Product Development Technologist job

Reporting to the NPD Controller, you will play a key role in developing new recipes and updating existing ones to meet customer briefs. Working closely with the Process Technologist and Production teams, you’ll ensure your recipes are scalable and ready for production.

Key tasks

  • Collaborate with our innovative NPD team to develop new recipes and refine existing ones based on customer briefs.
  • Prepare customer samples, source ingredients, update costings, and assist in presenting samples during customer meetings.
  • Build a strong understanding of key market trends, customer brands, and insights to guide product development.
  • Contribute to the creation of exciting, high-quality products that align with customer expectations and industry standards.

About You

  • Degree in Food Science or equivalent as well as experience of working within an NPD role.
  • You will have a natural passion for food, especially baking, be highly organised and able to manage your own workload.
  • Be highly motivated with a good attention to detail, ability to learn quickly and get started on new projects.

More details

The Product Development Technologist job (ref:8837) is paying up to £35,000 according to your experience.

The package includes Company Events, Company Pension, Cycle to work scheme, Free Parking, Life Insurance, Health and Wellbeing Programme.

The working hours are Monday to Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm or 9:00am - 5:00pm with half hour for lunch.

The site is near Slough and is commutable from Windsor, Reading, High Wycombe, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Ascot (Berkshire and Buckinghamshire). 

Alternate job titles

NPD Technologist | NPD Technician | Food Product Technologist | Food Product Developer | NPD Assistant | Innovation Technologist | Food Science Graduate Jobs | Food NPD 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
United Kingdom

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