In-House Development Manager (Food)

Vacancy Information

We have a fantastic opportunity to join the In-House Development team at Greggs.

We can offer you:

• 25 days (5 weeks) annual leave, pro-rated, increasing with service (in addition to bank holidays), plus 1 additional floating day

• Management Bonus Scheme which is worth up to 10% of your salary

• Profit share: We want everyone to share in the success of the business, so we distribute 10% of our profits to all our employees who have at least 6-month service, or more, each year

• Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants

• Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme

• You will automatically join our Greggs pension scheme which is a fantastic way to save for your retirement and allows you to benefit from employer contributions and tax advantages

• Defined contribution management pension scheme

• Death in service benefit which provides a lump-sum payment equal to 4 times your year’s salary

• Colleague discount, up to 50% off our own-produced products

• Share save schemes that let you buy discounted Greggs shares, by saving a set amount of money over a fixed time, to have an even bigger share of our profits

• Career progression and learning and development

• Employee Assistance Programme; A free, confidential helpline, offering advice and support with financial, relationship, work-related and wellbeing issues, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Including a mobile app providing a range of wellness content on physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing

• Perks and savings, such as digital gift card discounts, online cashback, in-store and online coupons and lifestyle offers

• Cycle to Work scheme

• A company who cares about our communities; the environment and being a better business! Click here to read about The Greggs Pledge

• Colleague Networks – internal groups where colleagues and their allies can share their own experiences, offer feedback on the way we do things at Greggs, and provide support to one another

What you'll do

• Reporting into the Senior In-House Development Manager, the In-House Development Manager will play a key role in supporting the PLM process to ensure that the In-house Development function fully complies with all requirements. Continually reviewing formulations associated with the technology platforms for in-house production to enhance delivery of quality and efficiency, assessing ingredients to identify potential alternative solutions to those that are at risk or no longer available for in house produced products. 
• As In-House Development Manager you will be predominately development kitchen based, hands on, reformulating in-house bakery related products to reduce or minimise the use of e-numbers and to fulfil the nutritional policy, conducting packaging assessments for in house products to enhance product quality and shelf life from both bakery and retail perspective for product with life. As well as developing in–house product concepts that can be transferred to the new technology platforms for bakery related products for future opportunity.  
• Our In-House Development Manager will generate product specifications, costing and nutritional calculations for new concept or changes for existing products where appropriate. Reformulating existing in-house products to improve product margin whilst maintaining or improving product quality, shelf life and efficiencies as agreed through the PLM process. 

About you

You will fit right into this role if you:

• You have great practical skills and hands on experience in kitchen of bench creation of bakery related food on the go products including bread and confectionary 

• You have a good understanding of the bakery manufacturing processes 

• You have at least 3 years’ experience within the food industry in a development or technology capacity 

• You are innovative and creative with a flare for developing new and exciting products. 

• Ingredient functionality and recipe balance experience

• You have an understanding of the PLM process (concept to launch)

• You are fully conversant with all MS packages 

• You have capability in completing finished product specification, nutritional calculations and costings. 

• You are able to multitask and meet challenging deadlines 

• You have excellent verbal, written communication & presentation skills 

• You are able to work in line with company values 

• You have strong interpersonal skills 

• You hold a Full UK Driving License, as occasional travel is required 

• Are a strong team player, able to build good working relationships at all levels

• Are self-motivated with the ability to work under pressure and using own initiative

• Want to develop and are ready to work alongside some great people and have lots of fun on your Greggs journey!

About Greggs

Here at Greggs, we love what we do, and we have fun! What makes Greggs so special is our culture – the way we are, the way we behave and the way we support each other. We're hard-working, but above all else we're family; and it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from or what your favourite bake is, we’d love you to join us! We want everyone to feel welcome at Greggs and our colleagues to be able to be themselves at work, whatever their background, preferences, or views.