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Development Technologist
Location: Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: 30-35k
Are you passionate about food and driven by innovation? We're looking for a Development Technologist to join our dynamic NPD team and help bring exciting new products to life! This is your chance to play a key role in shaping the future of food, supporting product launches, and ensuring every detail meets the highest standards.
What You'll Be Doing
- Be the backbone of our Development Team, working across a diverse customer base to deliver exceptional products.
- Champion the gated NPD process, managing key admin tasks and supporting feasibility and stage-gate meetings.
- Own compliance checks and nutritional data generation (using NutriCalc), ensuring products meet customer policies and legislation.
- Prepare spot-on documentation for customer submissions-forms, tasting booklets, and more.
- Conduct benchmarking to keep our products ahead of the curve.
- Dive into hands-on validation work-from cooking trials to freeze-thaw testing.
- Stay ahead of food trends and bring fresh ideas to the table.
- Support factory trials and scale-ups for smooth product launches.
- Promote a food-first culture internally and externally.
- Manage recipe input and raw material sourcing to keep projects on track.
- Assist with product sampling and build robust QAS documentation.
What We're Looking For
- Degree in a food-related discipline.
- A genuine passion for food and innovation.
- Commercial awareness with the ability to develop products to cost.
- Strong IT skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and familiarity with internal systems.
- Excellent attention to detail and interpersonal skills.
- Team player with knowledge of nutrition and ability to calculate nutritional info.
Ready to make your mark in food innovation?
Apply now with your CV and I will reach out with more information!
