NB: You must have the right to work in the UK for this role.
The Role
This technical development role is with a leading global ingredients supplier, who provide solutions for major food and nutrition brands. As a Product Developer with at least two years technical development experience, you will be highly capable in formulation development, creating sports nutrition products including powders, ready to mix and ready to drink formats and delivering excellent flavour profiles.
A blend of technical and commercial communication skills is needed, as in this role you will work with customers and commercial colleagues to design and deliver products from concept through to launch. Understanding customer needs and using your technical abilities to deliver sport focused formulations which meet these, will be key to your success.
Why It’s Great
This is a fantastic role for a sport-focused technical developer to bring great tasting, nutrition focused concepts to life that fulfil customers’ needs. You will ensure products created meet regulatory, quality, safety, cost and sustainability requirements, manage and mitigate risks; owning the process right from concept through to implementation and continuous improvement. You will lead conversations with clients, scope, develop and convert concepts into great tasting products in the development lab and support their implementation within internal production facilities or via external co-manufacturers.
Must Have Skills and Experience
- BSc (or higher) Food Science, Food Technology or similar subject
- Experience developing sports nutrition products
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in product development in food or consumer healthcare
- Strong technical knowledge of ingredient functionality, including but not limited to vitamins, minerals, flavours, colours, covering additives, and sweeteners and in the development and manufacture of premixes, nutritional products, or food supplements
- Passion for sustainability, food innovation and continuous development
- Great communication and client engagement skills
- Proven ability to collaborate across scientific, regulatory, and commercial teams
How to Apply
If you think your experience and skillset are suited to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
Please submit your application here. You must include the correct job reference number PS903.
We cannot accept emailed applications. We can only consider your application if submitted using the link above.
Closing Date
The organisation is looking to start the recruitment process ASAP, so contact us quickly!