Senior Development Technologist

Competitive Salary

Private Health Care

5% Bonus Scheme

25 Days Holiday plus bank holidays

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

This is a great opportunity for a Senior Development Technologist to join Bakkavor to work at our Bakkavor site in Nantwich .

Your responsibilities:

• Innovate new products and processes in response to customer briefs to maintain and grow a creative catalogue of products for our customers.
• To motivate and inspire direct reports up to Development Technologist level to achieve personal development and continual improvement.
• 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

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 can expect from us

When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension, private medical insurance, and other flexible benefits - alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.

Proud to be Bakkavor.

We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.

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