Development Technologist

2 weeks ago


Greater Manchester UK, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom Scantec Recruitment Full time

A leading FMCG Food manufacturer is currently recruiting for an NPD technologist / New Product Development Technologist and will also consider a Graduate with a 12 month placement completed in NPD to support the NPD & commercial team to innovate and develop new and existing products from benchmarking, developing, and launching products across retail, food service and B2B.


A full driving license and transport will be required for this position.

The role is site-based Monday to Friday.


Development Technologist / NPD Technologist / Graduate Technologist responsibilities include:


  • Develop products in the NPD kitchen which can be scaled up on our factory production lines.
  • Manage projects and tasks internally alongside customer requests whilst ensuring work is completed in line with the key dates on the critical path.
  • Organise and execute factory trials by ordering ingredients, planning paperwork, and attending the trials with the factory.
  • Create recipes, costings and samples of new products working alongside NPD chefs and the team of technologists
  • Develop recipes based on a customer brief or for an innovation session
  • Costing up recipes and completing NPD specs
  • Completing sample submission forms and customer presentation PowerPoints
  • Sourcing and ordering new raw materials and packaging for briefs
  • Organising sample request that are to be sent to customers with labels, cooking instructions and NPD specs
  • Meeting critical paths for each project
  • Keep up to date with food trends and macro trends which influence food choices.
  • Organising Christmas & BBQ benchmarking sessions
  • Maintain organisation of the NPD stock in the freezers
  • Innovation development of new products based on trends that fit within our factory capabilities
  • Supporting the process manager on factory trials
  • Support factory trials by providing recipes, specs, methods for new products progressing to trials
  • Taste panels and sign off products/packaging following factory trials


You will ideally be degree qualified / equivalent in a Food Science discipline and have experience working within an NPD department in the food industry. You will be IT literate in Excel, Word, Power-point and be able to work cross functionally with a positive can-do attitude. You will have excellent attention to detail with good organisational skills and have a keen interest in food


To apply please email a cv



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