Senior Development Chef

Overview

In this role you will lead the culinary team to deliver high-quality product development, applying strong culinary expertise and market insight. You will drive innovation, support cross-functional colleagues, and shape developments from concept to launch. You’ll manage the development kitchen, engage with customers, and translate feedback into action to fuel commercial growth. This position offers hands-on leadership across sites and the chance to influence product strategy at Greencore.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Holidays
• Competitive pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Exclusive employee discount platform

Responsibilities

• Lead the kitchen team to deliver development activity to a high standard
• Coach and mentor chef team for personal development
• Drive continuous improvement in product quality, margins and efficiency
• Manage hospitality for customer and high-profile visits and nurture customer relationships
• Present products to internal and external customers to influence decision-making
• Translate feedback into actionable product updates
• Drive the innovation pipeline with trend-based, commercially viable product development
• Understand site capabilities and broader Group capabilities
• Manage and maintain the Development kitchen facility
• Develop NPD and EPD within quality/timescale and seek margin opportunities
• Demonstrate leadership, creativity, and effective communication to align with Greencore values

Key requirements

• Broad and deep culinary understanding and cuisine knowledge
• Product Development experience in UK retail and FMCG
• Strong people management and organisational skills
• Passion to deliver commercial growth through Product Development
• Innovative and creative mindset
• Strong presenter and effective influencer

• Leadership
• Creativity
• Dynamic
• Culinary expertise
• Product development processes (NPD/EPD)
• Presentation and stakeholder influence

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