Development Technologist

Great opportunity for a talented development technologist to step up to a new challenge and make their mark with a leading food company.

In this fast paced role, you’ll be working closely with Development Chefs to facilitate the conceptual formation of new products in line with retailer product briefs. This will include some hands on work as well as managing recipe documentation, nutritionals and the day to day running of the test kitchen. You'll be involved with recipe formation and tweaking throughout the process in response to customer feedback and processing capabilities. You will also manage supplier relations to ensure viable sourcing of the best newest ingredients. Once products are approved you will work closely with Process, Technical and other teams to ensure a smooth handover into the factory.

Suit a food graduate with previous experience of the NPD process, recipe management and working on retail own label products. To succeed in this role you must have commercial awareness, stunning relationship management skills and a real passion for food. You must also have exemplary organisational, admin and IT skills. This is a great step up for a product developer looking for greater responsibility in a fast moving product sector.

Location: London
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Blue Spark are an enthusiastic and dynamic team of food specialists dedicated to the continuous development of services and solutions to keep pace with the Food Drinks industry as well as candidate needs.

We make placements on a Permanent, Interim and Consultative basis - connecting talented candidates (graduates through to senior managers) with the best SME’s and blue chip organisations in the UK food and drinks industry.

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