Overview
In this role you will help shape the future of chilled foods by translating trends into commercially viable concepts. You’ll collaborate with marketing, insights, NPD and commercial teams to build a forward-looking innovation pipeline for the UK market. You will explore new cuisines, ingredients, formats and technologies to scale exciting products nationwide. This is a high-visibility, growth-focused opportunity within a large food group that values culinary curiosity and strategic invention.
Pay / Benefits
- hybrid working
- up to £50,000 + benefits
- gifted time off? unknown
- career development
- ambitious organisation
- large-scale manufacturing capability
Responsibilities
- Translate food, consumer and cultural trends into future product concepts
- Identify innovation opportunities and category white space
- Create distinctive concepts across multiple chilled food categories
- Lead ideation and innovation workshops
- Explore emerging ingredients, technologies and production methods
- Support healthier and more sustainable food solutions
- Build and maintain relationships across marketing, NPD, technical and commercial teams
- Present concepts and innovation strategies to stakeholders
- Contribute to long-term innovation roadmaps and future product pipelines
Key requirements
- Naturally curious culinary innovator with a passion for food
- Experience in roles such as Innovation Chef, Development Chef, NPD Chef, or equivalent
- Ability to translate inspiration into commercially viable products
- Interest in new ingredients, technologies and techniques
- Comfort presenting ideas to senior stakeholders
- Thrives in collaborative, fast-paced environments
- Balances creativity with commercial awareness
- collaborative mindset
- strong presentation skills
- commercial awareness
- emerging ingredients
- new production methods
- technologies and techniques for food innovation
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