Based - Carlton, Barnsley
Permanent, Full Time
Join Premier Foods — where people, brands and purpose come together.
We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on R&D Manager to lead the development and optimisation of ambient cake products across our brand and private label ranges. This is a key role within our R&D team, with responsibility for delivering commercially successful, technically robust cakes with outstanding taste, texture and shelf life.
You’ll play a pivotal role in bringing exciting new products to market across our much-loved Cadbury, Mr Kipling and Home Baking ranges, managing the journey from concept creation and recipe development through to scale-up and launch
As R&D Manager, Cake and Home Baking, you’ll manage end-to-end product development for a wide range of ambient cake and home baking products. You’ll work closely with colleagues across Marketing, Supply Chain, Technical, Procurement and Operations to ensure brilliant ideas are turned into products that are feasible, commercially strong and loved by consumers.
This role will see you leading multiple NPD and EPD projects, owning timelines and resources, troubleshooting technical challenges and ensuring products meet food safety, regulatory, labelling, quality and brand standards. You’ll also manage and mentor a team of technologists across three manufacturing sites, creating a positive culture of curiosity, creativity and continuous improvement.
What you'll be doing?
In this role, you will:
What we need from you?
We’re looking for a creative, commercially minded R&D professional who is passionate about food and confident leading complex product development projects in a manufacturing environment.
You’ll ideally bring:
What we offer you in return...?
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Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV tailored to this opportunity. We look forward to hearing from you.
At Premier foods we believe in inclusion, authenticity and individuality. We aim to ensure all existing and future colleagues are given equitable opportunities and are respected, valued and encouraged to bring their true authentic selves to work no matter who they are, what they look like, who they love or what they believe in. Our culture is one where everyone is welcome.
We're proud to be a Disability Smart employer and are committed to supporting disability inclusion throughout our recruitment process. If you experience any access issues or require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know so we can ensure you have the support you need.
As one of the UK's largest food producers, we’re passionate about food and believe each and every day we have the opportunity to enrich life for everyone. Premier Foods employs over 4,000 people operating from 13 sites across the country, supplying a range of retail, wholesale, foodservice and other customers with our iconic brands which feature in millions of homes every day.
Through some of the nation’s best-loved brands, including Ambrosia, Batchelors, Bisto, Loyd Grossman, Mr. Kipling, Oxo, FUEL10K, The Spice Tailor, Merchant Gourmet and Sharwood’s, we’re creating great tasting products that contribute to healthy and balanced diets, while committing to nurturing our people and our local communities, and going further in the pursuit of a healthier planet, in line with our Purpose of ‘Enriching Life Through Food’.
