Product Development Developer, R&D - Bourneville, Birmingham

Product Development Developer, R&D - Bourneville, Birmingham page is loaded Product Development Developer, R&D - Bourneville, Birmingham Apply locations Birmingham, United Kingdom time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: July 24, 2025 (12 days left to apply) job requisition id R-142764 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 towork collaboratively to unlock growth opportunitiesby applying your expertise in food science and technology. You'll be an integral part of a team dedicated toembracing consumer-led innovation excellenceand 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. A nother 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 indelivering 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 organi s e and execute projects in line with RDQ, marketing, and manufacturing requirements, effectively communicating status and risks. You'll play a key role inunlocking growth opportunitiesby ensuring our innovations are deve loped 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 todelivering superior new technologies and capabilitieswithin 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.

• Prioriti s ing 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 toembracing 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 toembracing consumer-led innovation excellencedrives 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 indelivering superior new technologies and capabilitiesto 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! Our people make all the difference in our succes

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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At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands - both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum

Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than80countries and are working to sell our products in over150countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.