Product Developer in Edinburgh

M&S Food is changing, and fast! We are undergoing one of the biggest transformations in retailing today to build a bigger, better, fresher food business. From Percy Pig to the freshest M&S Select Farms produce, we grow, source, and develop our own products to give our customers family-ready food that\'s unbeatable on flavour and innovation. We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best. After all, this is not just food… This is M&S Food.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

· After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S

products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household

· Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!

· Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business

· A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance

· A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training

programmes to develop your skills

· Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal

wellbeing

· Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family

· Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family

· A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you\'re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work

What you’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Leads strategy and implementation of NPD (New Product Development) across all categories and drives real change and market-leading innovation.
• Never rests in their pursuit for ultimate quality at every tier and puts the customer at the heart of every product related decision.
• Achieve your KPI’s and objectives.
• Follow P&PP (Product & Packaging Pathway) development process, managing highly complex projects to ensure critical path targets are met for cluster, communicating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Challenges continuous improvement to business processes to support the continued development of the NP (New Product) function as the world’s leading NPD team.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Positive, supportive, approachable, adaptable, resilient and lives and breathes food, culinary trends and food development.
• Ability to apply culinary knowledge and skills to product development.
• Proven track record at communicating, negotiating and influencing at all levels.
• Ability to manage and lead colleagues & supply base to drive a high-performance culture, pushes boundaries and encourages others to do the same.
• A strong strategic planner, using market and customer data to develop product propositions, ensuring we lead the market with a proven track record of clear and successful range strategies.

Everyone’s welcome

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact. We’re an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers brilliantly. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.