Food Development Assistant

Do you love food? Want the opportunity to develop, test and bring to market some delicious creations?

Look no further.

Working for this well-established commercial food product manufacturer and supplier as a Food Development Assistant, you’ll have the opportunity to get hands on with a mixture of both factory and office food development.

Salary – Up to £28,000 Per Annum

Location – Poole

Role Type – Full Time / Permanent / Mon-Fri / 8:30-5 (Early Finish Friday)

Benefits - 25 days annual leave + BH, Pension 5% and 3%, 2 Volunteering Days per year, Onsite Parking, Staff Canteen, Health and well-being support and welfare community groups, Online and high street discount portal

The Role

This role supports the Development and Culinary teams in creating and refining recipes to meet customer expectations. You'll be hands-on in the kitchen preparing samples for key meetings and helping organise customer and internal presentations. 

Responsibilities include coordinating sample requests, supporting product developers with NPD documentation, maintaining Recipe Professor, and assisting with raw material sourcing. You’ll help collect specification data, and contribute to artwork approvals. The role also involves completing benchmarking, attending store visits, supporting taste panels, and assisting the process team with trials and factory documentation. 

Product tasting, including meat-based items, is required.

We are looking for either graduates in a relevant food related discipline or someone who has been doing a similar role with food manufacturing experience within an FMCG environment who possesses HACCP / Food Safety Training.

Sound tasty? Drop an application in today and begin your career within an organisation that will push you to professionally develop and hone your craft.