Product Development Developer, R&D - Bournville, Birmingham

Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
This position, within the Beyond the Core platform of the Global Chocolate Technology organization in Bournville, UK, offers the opportunity to work collaboratively to unlock growth opportunities by applying your expertise in food science and technology. You'll be an integral part of a team dedicated to embracing consumer-led innovation excellence and developing products that not only delight consumers but also support their well-being.
The role focuses on developing technologies to deliver elevated and delightful consumer experiences while supporting healthier snacking options. The team comprises members from both the Bournville and Thane R&D centres.
Working as part of a cross-functional team, you will deliver the RDQ activities required to complete new product/technology development, validation, and testing, with an emphasis on meeting the desired consumer experience. Another key aspect of this role involves developing products that align with evolving nutritional guidelines, including working towards compliance with nutrient profiling models such as HFSS (High Fat, Sugar, and Salt). You'll be instrumental in delivering superior new technologies and capabilities to our commercial partners and project teams.
How you will contribute
With the support and guidance of a manager, you will organise and execute projects in line with RDQ, marketing, and manufacturing requirements, effectively communicating status and risks. You'll play a key role in unlocking growth opportunities by ensuring our innovations are developed with the right ingredients and formulations to meet consumer needs and nutritional standards.
You will plan and conduct pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements, and development activities (e.g., product shelf-life testing, designing for quality, consumer test preparation, and nutritional analysis). You will also write technical reports that will require the analysis and interpretation of results and that lead to conclusions and recommendations and create and maintain accurate consumer-led specifications. This will contribute to delivering superior new technologies and capabilities within the Beyond the Core platform.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career, and the following experience and knowledge:

• Food science or engineering, ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods market.

• Working with teams and independently with the guidance of a manager. Collaborating effectively is essential to our success.

• Leads small projects and contributes to cross functional teams.

• Prioritising and managing activities within a project and different projects.

• Identifying problems proactively and creating and implementing solutions independently and in guidance with stakeholders, whilst ensuring compliance to policies & procedures.

• Applying fundamental technical understanding and curiosity to interpret and analyse data to reach clear conclusions.

• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing, including technical writing.

• Putting the consumer at the heart of development activities and demonstrating an understanding of consumer trends related to health and well-being. This consumer-centric approach is key to embracing consumer-led innovation excellence.

• Awareness of business partners and continues to build relationship network.

More about this role
This role primarily focuses on identifying, testing, improving, and validating technology to deliver elevated and delightful consumer experiences, with a strong emphasis on nutritional considerations. The team's commitment to embracing consumer-led innovation excellence drives us to continually seek out new and improved ways to meet consumer needs. Strong learning agility, curiosity, proactiveness, and comfort with technology - including digital tools, machinery, and equipment - are essential.
Projects will vary from research and market analysis to pilot trials, testing at supplier facilities, and commercialization, with guidance from the manager or other technical experts. You will play a vital role in delivering superior new technologies and capabilities to the organization.
What extra ingredients you will bring:
Practical skills and technical understanding of chocolate recipe, process, and development process will be valuable.
Education / Certifications:
Demonstrated first experience of practical application of theory in Food or engineering / scientific related discipline
Job-specific requirements:
Travel requirements: 5-10% within Europe.
Relocation Support Available?
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
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Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Excited to grow your career?
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
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Job Type
Regular
Product development
Science & Engineering