Assistant Product Developer

2 weeks ago

Bracknell, United Kingdom Head Office Full time

**What’s the role about?**

We have 3 exciting opportunities to join the Product Innovation and own brand team as an Assistant Product Developer. One Permanent role and two 9 month fixed term contracts to cover maternity leave

**You will**:

- be developing innovative & profitable products to delight our customers by offering a distinctive offer & consistent product quality across Waitrose
- be ensuring all products adhere to defined brand, technical, Corporate Responsibility & nutritional policies & in line with GSCoP (Grocery Supply Code of Practice).
- be understanding supplier capability & contributing to supplier strategy for product development
- be delivering products on time and in full, including briefing suppliers, attending panel approvals and reviewing post launch.
- be working closely and collaboratively with stakeholders across buying, technical and Product Innovation to land products
- be keeping abreast of trends from customer strategy, insight and direction, macro consumer trends and food/grocery trends. Spending time to scope out and research the project/category to determine the best outcomes that meet with Waitrose own brand strategy.

**What will you be doing as an Assistant Product Developer?**
- Develops and delivers new & improved innovative, quality focused and differentiated products, aligned to Own brand values whilst understanding and managing the commercial implications of development in the grocery environment.
- Builds, strengthens and owns the NPD relationships between Waitrose and suppliers within the projects being worked on.
- Ambassador of Own Brand values.
- You will work closely with the cross functional category teams in Waitrose trading, external suppliers, Customer Insight, Chef & Innovation, Own Brand & NPD programme teams, Technical & Quality, Packaging, Design & Repro, Legal, Compliance & Policy, Nutrition & Agriculture, & PR, depending on projects & according to RACI.

**What you'll have**
- A passion for product.
- Previous product development experience within Manufacturing or Retail.
- Experience in launching major NPD/Brand projects.
- Proven track record of high quality, commercially successful product development & supplier management.
- Strong creative skills in food, grocery.
- Good analysis skills and capable of analysing sales & insight data.

**What else could you bring?**
- Further education qualification in Food, grocery non food, Horti.
- Retail or manufacturing experience; buying experience; product technical experience.

**Additional Information**

**This role is based at our Bracknell Head Office, Bracknell. It will require working in the office and times when you will work from home. If you are offered one of our roles you can discuss with your People Manager when you will be needed to work in the office.**

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**Please note for the secondment opportunity: as this position is a secondment, the successful Partners benefits will remain unchanged.

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