Development Technologist

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Full time
Location: Newport
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Category: IT & Technology
The core of the business is maintaining high standards. This is the opportunity to surprise and delight customers and make their vision a reality. It is important that due care and attention are given to the development processes while working with pace. Great stakeholder service is essential, keeping stakeholders informed regularly at all stages of the project, managing expectations with confidence, honesty, and integrity when challenges arise.

Overview: Proactive and genuinely interested in new food and beverages. Accuracy in all records is essential, so a good level of literacy and numeracy is key. Projects delivered on time and on budget. The development of beverage products to the customer's agreed brief, ensuring that the company procedures and controlled documents are fully utilized, ensuring traceability and good practice in all functions. Recipe formulation that ensures all product requirements, organoleptic, processing, and legal are achievable, to be backed up with written evidence where relevant. Attending co-packer's sites for trials as required. Some international travel may be required. Maintain the product development system. Customer information to be correct and legible. Attending customer sites when required. Cost-conscious, creating viable new products. Build rapport with customers, providing feedback when required by the project. Regularly updating customers to ensure they remain informed. Developing an understanding of all requirements for brand standards. Ingredient sourcing from accredited suppliers, wherever possible, to BRC / ISO / ILS / FDA standards / approval (novel ingredients must be discussed and a way of working agreed). Work proactively in building good ongoing relationships with suppliers. Research into new ingredients, trends, and processing.

Role Requirements: Experience gained across a range of food and beverage categories. Being on top of food trends, new ingredients, and process technologies. Someone with the appetite and potential to progress their career further in product development. Educated to degree level (or its equivalent) in a food technology or food science-based subject. 1+ years product development experience. A proactive self-starter. Curious and enthusiastic about food & drink. A people person comfortable making new contacts and maintaining relationships. Methodical and organized, someone who can stick to deadlines and follow procedures. A team player who can influence without relying on job titles. A problem solver, willing to make the improvements you identify, as if it were your own business.

Our Referral Incentive: Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles, unfortunately, we cannot respond to each application individually. Therefore, if you do not hear back from us, you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website for any other roles which may be of interest. We offer a £500 referral if you introduce someone we place - see our website for details. We regret that this client is not prepared to sponsor work permit or work permit transfer applications. Candidates must be able to prove their eligibility to work in the UK.

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