Senior Development Technologist
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £32000-38000 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Spalding, PE11 2BB |
| Company: | Bakkavor |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 19625-42447000 |
Summary
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
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 Spalding
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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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 Spalding
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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