Senior Development Technologist

at  Bakkavor

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Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career.

ABOUT YOU.

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

ABOUT THE ROLE.

This is a great opportunity for a Senior Development Technologist to join Bakkavor to work at our Bakkavor site in Holbeach to support in the creation, management and delivery of the Development activity against the agreed Development plan.

ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 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 Playe