# Product Developer

**Company**: Co-op
**Location**: Manchester, Lancashire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Salary**: £32,000 to £38,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We're seeking a Product Developer to join our Co-op Brand team in Manchester city centre. As a Product Developer, you will research and deliver innovative, high-quality products that delight our customers and keep up with their changing needs.

**What you'll do**

- Work as part of our food product development teams to create innovative, high-quality, customer-centric products.

- Use your food expertise and passion to create clear product development briefs.

- Interpret internal and external sources of data, insights, and trends to create product ranges and innovation appropriate to the Co-op customer.

- Build strong relationships and influence a range of key partners within our supplier base, trading teams, and technical teams.

- Attend factory visits to monitor quality standards, attend product trials, understand manufacturing capabilities, and future opportunities.

- Keep up to date with the wider retail landscape, keeping in tune with market trends and competitor performance with a focus on delivering efficiencies.

- Monitor and keep track of products throughout the critical path up to launch, supporting the communication of key product information and launch activity.

- Consider commercial implications throughout the development process, ensuring products taste great and deliver against our high-quality standards.

- Be a brand ambassador for the Co-op brand range.

**What you'll bring**

- Prior experience of working in a food product or process development role within the wider industry.

- A passion for food and innovation with strong sensory skills to taste and analyse food.

- Good communication skills with the ability to build strong stakeholder relationships.

- Good organisational skills, with the confidence to manage workload and projects autonomously.

- A customer-focused approach, whilst being commercially aware, with the ability to analyse and interpret insights and data.

**Benefits**

- An annual bonus based on personal and business performance.

- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays.

- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions.

- Access to a subsidised onsite gym.

- 30% discount on Co-op products and 10% off other brands.

- Stream – early access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it.

- Virtual healthcare including GP appointments, mental health support, nutrition, and fitness advice.

- 24/7 colleague support service.

- Training and support for your development and career progression.

- Cycle-to-work scheme.

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## Skills

### Required
- food product development
- data analysis
- communication
- organisational skills
- customer-focused approach

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