Intersnack Group

Product Development Manager – Food Innovation & R&D

Intersnack Group  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Onsite)  •  25 days ago
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Job Description

Purpose of the Position

Are you passionate about creating innovative food products that consumers love? Join our international R&D team and play a key role in shaping the future of snacking by developing and commercializing exciting new products across our branded portfolio.

As Product Development Manager, you will lead end-to-end product development projects, from consumer-driven concept creation and product prototyping through to factory scale-up and market launch. Working closely with commercial, procurement, manufacturing, quality, and category teams, you will ensure products meet the highest standards of consumer appeal, quality, food safety, sustainability, and commercial performance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of innovative snack products from concept through commercialization.
  • Create product concepts and build business cases together with marketing and commercial teams.
  • Develop formulations, prototypes, and conduct pilot and factory scale-up trials.
  • Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and against agreed product performance KPIs.
  • Support consumer testing, sensory evaluations, and product validation activities.
  • Partner with procurement to approve and optimize raw materials and ingredients.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across products and manufacturing processes.
  • Monitor consumer trends, market developments, and competitor activity to identify future innovation opportunities.
  • Ensure compliance with stage-gate processes, food safety requirements, and industry standards.
  • Contribute to category strategy, portfolio optimization, value engineering, and sustainability objectives.
  • Prepare project updates, KPI reporting, and technical documentation for key stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in New Product Development (NPD), Food Innovation, or Product Development within the food industry.
  • Proven experience managing products from concept development through production and commercialization.
  • Strong knowledge of food science, ingredients, formulation, sensory evaluation, and manufacturing processes.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders at multiple levels.
  • Excellent project management, analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
  • Understanding of food safety and quality standards such as HACCP, BRC, and AIB.
  • Passion for food trends, consumer insights, product innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Business fluent in English
  • Willingness to travel occasionally, approx. 2-3 times up to 50% per month

Working with us

Intersnack has become one of Europe’s leading savoury snacks producers by ‘creating happy snacking moments’ in people’s lives. Being privately owned, we operate with a long-term view and commit ourselves to a more sustainable world.

Successful and sustainably growing, we generated sales of more than 4.6 billion euros in 2025. We now have 12 regional Management Units with more than 40 production sites in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and a total workforce of more than 15,000 people.

What we will offer

An enjoyable, broad and fulfilling role with one of Europe’s biggest savory snacks producers. The chance to grow in an environment that values teamwork and collaboration, as well recognized to your individuality, welcoming your views, and celebrating your growth. Naturally we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, but also the opportunity to stand out for your professionalism and performance, moving forward in a challenging environment that supports each individual team member to achieve their very best. And a place to securely develop your career as part of a business that cares about the wellbeing of all its people and understands that work-life balance is fundamental to success. At Intersnack, we value and cherish diversity for the power and potential it creates. We have extraordinary team spirit, empower our people to take ownership for what they do and challenge each other to improve. Because we know that, to become a big player, you need to master being a team player first.

Intersnack Group

About Intersnack Group

Intersnack was founded in Germany more than sixty years ago and made its first potato chips in 1968. Since then, we have grown and flourished to become one of the market leaders in savoury snacks, present in over 30 countries across Europe, Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

We are passionate about happy snacking moments: enriching people’s lives with the right choice of great tasting savoury snacks. Every day, more than 15 million consumers around the globe enjoy our products.

We have a large portfolio of local and international snack brands, from potato chips, nuts, and baked products to specialty snacks. Our many famous brand names include funny-frisch, Chio, Estrella, Hula Hoops, POM-BÄR, McCoy's, ültje, Vico, Tayto and Griffin's.

As a privately owned company, we operate with a long-term view. We believe our strength lies in our unique blend of local knowledge and international expertise; our people and teamwork plus our entrepreneurial spirit and a drive for excellence in everything we do.

Because we are active in many markets, we have a diverse community of employees, across many countries. But we all share an inclusive culture, driven by teamwork and motivated by excellence.

And we care deeply about the impacts of our actions - on our people, our business and the planet.

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Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Düsseldorf, DE
Year Founded
Unknown
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