Product Development Specialist

1 week ago


Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, United Kingdom Westfalia Fruit Group Full time

At Westfalia Fruit Group, we are seeking a Product Development Specialist to join our team. As a quality champion, you will ensure that our products consistently exceed customer expectations.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in food science and experience with HACCP or similar food safety qualifications. You will be responsible for maintaining supplier risk assessments, managing a sampling and analysis programme, and ensuring that suppliers have up-to-date certification and due diligence documentation.

Additionally, you will support and schedule NPD activities, including trials, product testing, and data collection. If you have a passion for product testing and a strong understanding of the importance of quality, we encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maintaining Westfalia Fruit's supplier risk assessments.
  • Managing a sampling and analysis programme – Microbiology, pesticide, nutritional, and organoleptic.
  • Manage customer complaints and report monthly KPIs.
  • Conduct and follow up on investigations regarding complaints, out of specification product, results, and report findings.
  • Ensuring that suppliers have up-to-date certification and due diligence documentation including agricultural systems, GFSI food safety, etc.
  • Support and schedule NPD activities including trials, product testing, trial reports, and data collection.

Requirements:

  • Higher education qualifications within a Food Science setting.
  • You will ideally have HACCP or similar food safety qualifications.
  • Retailer and industry software systems experience.
  • Understanding the importance of product testing – pesticide, microbiology, organoleptic, and nutritional.

What We Offer:

  • 20 days holiday, inclusive of bank and public holidays.
  • Free on-site parking.
  • Free Tea & Coffee.
  • Company pension plan.
  • Christmas hampers.


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