New Product Development Commercial Placement
Greencore Group plc, Selby
New Product Development Commercial Placement
Salary Not Specified
Greencore Group plc, Selby
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 21 Jan | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: e6fb75608321431a8595bacaa28ff39e
Full Job Description
As the largest sandwich maker in the UK, we partner with both major supermarkets and smaller retailers. During this placement as a New Product Development Technologist, you will play a crucial role in supporting the product development process, ensuring new products are validated, documented, and ready for a smooth launch. This will include:
- Inputting recipes into the management system to calculate costs, assess nutritional values, and maintain accurate documentation for product approvals.
- Working with New Product Development buyers, the packaging innovation team, and other stakeholders to source materials and meet project requirements.
- Help prepare kitchen made samples for internal panels, nutritional testing, and presentations, while organising product samples for ordering, transportation, and documentation.
- Conduct sensory testing to assess product quality throughout its shelf life, supporting recipe adjustments where needed.
- Support critical path timelines, identify risks, and escalate delays while ensuring sustainability considerations are factored into product development.
- Label and pack samples accurately for external shipment, purchase ingredients, and benchmark competitor products to inform development.
- Support in preparing product samples and coordinating project activities to ensure smooth progression through all stages of development. At the end of the placement, you will have gained valuable on the job experience while also gaining knowledge of a commercial environment within the food industry. We firmly believe it's our people who deliver our performance which is why we place so much emphasis on colleague development and career progression.
- Passionate about working as part of a team and have an ambition to have a long-term career in a commercial environment in the food industry.
- Have an interest in sustainability and the environment
- Highly motivated to grow your career.
- Resilient and equipped to take change in your stride.
- Curious, organised, and able to use your excellent communication skills to build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. To join our Commercial Placement programme, you will need:
- The right to live and work in the UK.
- Currently studying Whilst this role is based in Selby, to take full advantage of this opportunity, you will be required to travel to other sites when necessary, and therefore a full driving license is preferred.
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- 25 days Holidays, Plus Bank Holidays
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
We're looking for motivated undergraduates who are completing either a food or food science/nutrition related degree and have a keen ambition to gain experience within developing new products in a fast-moving consumer good business. This is a 12-month placement aimed at those who elect to complete a 'year-in-industry' as part of their degree, with the potential to return to Greencore once you have completed your undergraduate degree., We are looking for you to have a passion for food, and people. You will also be:
We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better. We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn. Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties. This is a dynamic and innovative field, which brings many commercial challenges relating to market trends, product launches, maintaining relationships with customers, suppliers and internal teams., At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make everyday taste better.
If this sounds like you, join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.Join us and you'll get Not only will you gain experience across our business; you will also have access to our Greencore colleague benefits including:
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