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Senior Development Technologist

We drive our own success.

Boness

Competitive Salary

Private Health Care

Bonus Scheme

25 Days Holiday plus bank holidays

Monday to Friday

8.30 - 5pm

Permanent

Why join us?

We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more.

About the role.

This is a great opportunity for a Senior Development Technologist to join Bakkavor to work at our Bakkavor site in Boness 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.
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 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 What you'll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you

You'll enjoy:
Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
Private medical insurance
Annual Bonus Scheme
25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
Staff Shop
Stakeholder Pension Scheme
Discount & cashback platform
Personal Accident Insurance
Free health check
Employee Assistance Programme
A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
Free independent mortgage advice
Discounted tutoring for children
Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

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