The Bart Ingredients company has been sourcing and supplying herbs & spices for over 60 years. What began as a husband-and-wife team selling spice racks locally has grown to an organisation with over 200 employees distributing products across the UK. Today the business is privately owned by the Fuchs Gruppe family - the world’s largest privately owned herbs & spices business.
Our purpose is simple - ‘To bring the joy of food to life’ and to do it in the most sustainable way. The success of the business is in our people who make the business what it is with shared passion for achieving the best and cultivating the family culture we are proud of.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Product Developer to work in our facility in Severn Beach.
The main purpose of this role is to lead the development and enhancement of food products through effective project management, cross-functional coordination and application of specialist product development knowledge, ensuring alignment with customer, factory and commercial requirements.
This role underpins the company’s growth and reputation by managing complex product development initiatives, delivering solutions that enhance business performance while supporting departmental integration, timely reporting and supporting successful project delivery through effective coordination, technical knowledge and commercial awareness.
The key responsibilities of this role are:
- Lead complex product development through the gated NPD process to meet cost, quality, and timing.
- Manage key customer projects and relationships to deliver briefs and repeatable business.
- Develop, prepare, and validate recipes to customer, factory, retailer, and commercial requirements for approval and scale‑up.
- Coordinate cross‑functional activity and deadlines to achieve on‑time gates, trials, and handovers.
- Track product viability and commercial performance and make evidence-based recommendations within guidelines.
- Write and manage briefs, timelines, and gate/launch documentation to secure governance and right‑first‑time launches.
- Present concepts internally and to customers, providing product and project support within own area of expertise.
- Maintain compliance with Food Safety, Quality, OH&S, Data Protection, nutrition and labelling law, and proficiency in Bart systems and NPD procedures.
- Act as a mentor and support development reviews and team capability activities.
Person specification/qualifications/skills:
- Degree level qualification in a relevant subject, or equivalent experience.
- Substantial experience of leading complex product development through gated NPD to meet cost, quality and timing.
- Significant experience of managing key customer projects and commercial relationships to deliver briefs and secure repeat business.
- Significant experience of developing, preparing and validating recipes for customers, factory scale‑up and retailer requirements.
- Significant experience of coordinating cross‑functional activity, tracking profitability and preparing gate and launch documentation.
- Detailed understanding of product formulation and gated NPD processes to scale recipes for factory production.
- Detailed understanding of food safety, quality assurance and nutrition and labelling legislation.
- Detailed understanding of manufacturing process technology and scale‑up constraints.
- Understanding of cost control, profitability and customer, supplier and co‑manufacturer technical requirements.
- Highly developed skill in leading gated NPD to deliver launches meeting cost, quality and timing.
- Developed skill in formulation and recipe scale‑up for factory production.
- Developed skill in coordinating cross‑functional teams and managing trials and handovers.
- Developed skill in analysing profitability and presenting technical recommendations to stakeholders.
What we offer:
Bart believe our people are our most important asset and offer the following benefits in addition to your salary:
· Pension scheme:
o Salary sacrifice scheme with company contribution of 4%
· Extra leave:
o Holiday purchase scheme – up to an additional 5 days each year
o Enhanced bereavement and pregnancy loss leave
o Enhanced maternity and paternity leave after 12 months service
· Life assurance:
o 2 x annual salary after 3 months service
· Wellbeing:
o Access to GP24 service - a remote GP & second opinion medical service
o Access to onsite Mental Health First Aiders
o Grocery Aid access - Offering emotional, financial, practical advice and support on a wide range of topics for all grocery colleagues and their immediate families
· Discounts:
o Money off in stores, holidays and days out discount platform
o Cycle to work scheme
· Others:
o Long Service Awards
o Social events
The hours for this role are 37.5 hours per week Monday – Friday with a salary of up to £39,977 dependant on experience. Some occasional travel to our Newbury site will be a requirement of this role.
This role is applicable to work at home for up to 2 days per week after a probation period.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Bart Ingredients we are committed to promoting equal opportunities and fostering a rich diversity within our workplace where all individuals are valued, treated with fairness, dignity and respect.
As an equal opportunities employer, we recruit on a fair and equal basis, welcoming applications from candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, gender identity or reassignment, disability, pregnancy & maternity status, sexual orientation, religion or belief or marriage/civil partnership status.
In line with the Ban the Box initiative, we do not ask you about any unspent criminal convictions during the recruitment process.
Bart Ingredients is a proud Disability Confident Employer, and we guarantee an interview for candidates who declare a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the role.
We recognise that people are different and can work in different ways. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process or for applying in a different format, please contact our HR team and they will be happy to help. [email protected] - 0117 9773474
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: Up to £39,997.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Store discount
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bristol BS35 4GH
