Vitacress Salads St Mary Bourne, Andover, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Job Description
Posted Tuesday 4 March 2025 at 01:00
Job title: New Product Developer
Location: St Mary Bourne, Hampshire
Salary range: £35,000 to £45,000 Dependent on experience
Hours: 40
Contract type: Permanent
Are you a fresh thinking NPD professional? Do you take pride in bringing delicious, innovative, and high-quality products to shelves across the UK? We’re looking for a passionate Product Developer to drive our next big ideas forward, could this be you?
You’ll be at the heart of product development, bringing new ideas to life from concept to launch. Whether you’re spotting trends, working with suppliers on the next big ingredient, or making sure our products are the best on the market, you’ll be making a real impact every day. Your office will be the development kitchen and you will be living and breathing the finest fresh salad and herb produce and the flavours this creates. Your love for food will be obvious and you will have a knack for spotting trends before they hit the shelves. You’re proactive, solutions-focused, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Experience in food product development or manufacturing is essential, and a background in fresh or FMCG would be a bonus. Short shelf life product experience will help.
Responsibilities
1. Create & Innovate – You’ll seek out new opportunities, experiment with fresh ingredients, and bring exciting ideas to the table.
2. Lead the Journey – From kitchen concept to full-scale production, you’ll manage the entire process, ensuring quality and innovation every step of the way.
3. Collaborate & Influence – You’ll work closely with suppliers, customers, and internal teams, running innovation days, tastings, and presentations that inspire.
4. Make it Happen – With a hands-on approach, you’ll organise factory trials, work with operations on product launches, and keep everything on track.
Why Join Us? At Vitacress, we care about our people, our products, and our planet. Join a team where your ideas matter, and your work makes a difference.
Ready to shape the future of fresh? Be creative and ambitious in the delivery of our new product lines! Apply today or reach out to our TA team.
Vitacress Salads, based in leafy St Mary Bourne, Andover is one of the principal salad and watercress suppliers in the UK. We take immense pride in delivering a field to fork operation. We grow, wash, pack and distribute salad and watercress for retailer own brands and our own brand Steve’s Leaves. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standard and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the salads that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing our talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.
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