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Opportunity: Product Developer - 9 weeks interim. 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.
Job Responsibility:
Develop new 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
Requirements:
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