Graduate Development Technologist, Food Manufacturing

2 weeks ago


Spalding Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Bakkavor Group Full time

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.
Development Technologist
Competitive Salary
30am - 5pm Monday - Friday
Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group
To know that as a valued Development Technologist well support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.
Bakkavor are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees develop and produce innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.
As a Development Technologist you will work as an integral part of the development team by producing innovative food products - that can be mass produced without any loss of quality or taste, which reflect our customer's trends and requirements.
Business Communication: Has relationships with relevant functions to support the Development process activity.
Customer: Has good overall awareness of retailer development requirements
Product Innovation: Able to identify emerging food and market trends with a passion for food and a drive to innovate
Product Development Cycle: Uses recipe management systems to generate all key recipe information and costings in line with the commercial targets. Delivers all Development tasks to the required standard and timescale.
Drive, energy and enthusiasm
Good standard of IT skills to include power point, word and excel
At Bakkavor were proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. And were proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity.



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