Junior Development Technologist

Job Description

Company description:Title: Junior Development TechnologistFunction: Innovation Technical TeamLocation:Bolton Head Office Contract: Permanent HybridAre you passionate about bakery, baking, and all things freshly-baked Are you working in food manufacturing or retail bakery and are interesting in taking your career into the wonderful world of InnovationJob description:Essential Ingredients

• In-Bakery experience or qualifications to NVQ or equivalent
• An interest in the Bakery Industry, a passion for development and loves a challenge!
• Has an analytical mindset, enjoys problem-solving, is inquisitive with an attention to detail
• A team player, collaborative and able to bounce and build ideas in a team environment
• Presentation and communication skills, able to easily build relationships with stakeholders, suppliers and colleagues in your team

The RecipeYou’ll be in the wonderful and varied world of our Innovation Technical team, supporting product test baking, new ingredient sourcing, and evaluating product performance in the Research and Innovation Bakery at our Head Office. You’ll be our product expertmanaging competitor product comparisons, reporting on external product quality, packaging and baking alongside our own.In a varied and busy team you’ll also be building relationships with our existing ingredient suppliers, sourcing new suppliers, and evaluating the results of the raw materials through test baking and recipe formulation. And now for the science bit, workingwith our Head Office Laboratory evaluating analytical data, reviewing the findings, and ensuring your team is kept up to date with the findings.As part of the Warburtons family, you’ll be on an exciting and complex innovation journey, from concept, creating through to trial at our Operational bakeries across the UK. You’ll have exposure to the wider business, working alongside Innovation Marketing,our Head Office functions and our customers.We invest in your development and encourage you to be at your best. If our advert has got your interest, we encourage you to apply, and do it sooner rather than later as sometimes we need to close it early! About UsAs ‘the UK’s No. 1 Bakery Brand’ we have been baking bread since 1876. Today, we are proudly a sixth-generation family business, supplying over 18,000 retail customers from 11 bakeries and 16 depots, producing a range of over 70 products, including glutenand wheat free.We are striving to be a net zero business by 2050 and believe that we must minimise our impact on the environment, whilst making a positive impact on the society we are a part of.In 2019 we opened our dedicated Research and Innovation Centre in Bolton, where our creative product development teams have access to cutting edge technology to help them create and bake the next big thing! We’re incredibly passionate about bringinga wider range of choice to our bakery category and our dedicated product development team working alongside our Head of Innovation, spend their time continually thinking of new ways of giving families great quality, great tasting food that fits in with theirdaily lives.Over the last ten years we’ve launched several new innovations including Thin Crumpets, Giant Crumpets, Bagels, Sandwich Thins and it’s only by investing in innovation that we can continue to lead the way in the bakery market.Extra DoughYou will want to know what your bread is worth:

• A slice of the annual profits
• Family time is important to us and we know it will be to you so you have the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave.
• Award winning pension scheme
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
• Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspectwhich makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.