Senior Development Technologist

About The Role

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family! At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:

• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private health scheme
• Employee discount scheme
• Experience annual pay reviews
• Profit related pay
• Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

This role plays a key part in bridging the gap between kitchen and factory, supporting the end-to-end launch process while helping to create commercially viable, innovative products aligned to our growth strategy. You’ll also be involved in refreshing and optimising existing products, following a structured development gate process.

You’ll work cross-functionally across the business, helping to inspire new thinking and drive transformational change while ensuring launches are delivered to a high standard, on time, and in line with business objectives.

• Support product development projects from concept creation through to factory handover
• Lead and support the development of new, commercially viable product ideas aligned to business growth plans
• Refresh, optimise and improve existing products using a structured development gate process
• Act as a key link between kitchen trials and factory implementation during the launch process
• Work collaboratively with Commercial, Category, Sourcing & Procurement, Production and Technical/Process teams
• Ensure all projects follow the PD launch and critical path process, delivering high-quality products on time

We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:

• Experience in product development within a food manufacturing or FMCG environment
• BSc or equivalent in a Food related discipline
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work cross-functionally
• Organised, proactive and comfortable managing multiple projects
• Passionate about innovation, continuous improvement and high product standards

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role. Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family.
Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gang masters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.