Product Developer

Overview

As a Product Developer in Greencore’s Boston innovation team, you will develop new and modify existing recipes to meet briefs, cost targets, and nutritional requirements. You will benchmark offerings to gauge market potential and drive scalable, repeatable products across fresh produce. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to vet ingredients, manage documentation, and support launches from concept to process handover. This role offers the chance to shape product innovation in a fast-moving food business with global reach.

Pay / Benefits

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

Responsibilities

• Develop new and existing recipes into commercially viable products with cost, weight, and nutritional alignment
• Input and review recipes on the management system to ensure accuracy against cost targets
• Assess new raw ingredients from technical and operational perspectives to enable innovation
• Complete and review feasibility and submission documentation for internal and external sharing
• Run feasibility processes with commercial, operations, technical and purchasing teams to ensure repeatability and scalability
• Compile product costing data and adapt recipes to meet brief targets within brand standards
• Present benchmarking and new products to internal and customer stakeholders to secure approvals
• Follow project timelines and escalate issues to prevent delays in product acceptance and launch
• Support scale-up production trials to align kitchen and production quality
• Provide leadership to keep the team safe, engaged, and performing at their potential

Key requirements

• Proven experience in food product development
• Analytical with strong costings capabilities
• Proficient from concept to launch in product development
• Strong track record of validating products and producing quality documentation
• Confident presenter to multiple stakeholders and customers
• Experience in people management
• Full UK driving licence

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• People leadership and team development
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Costing and financial analysis
• Recipe management systems
• Feasibility and concept-to-process workflows

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