Development Chef
Salary: Competitive salary
Benefits: Company share save scheme, Pension up to 8% matched, Life insurance up to 4x salary
Location: Bourne, Lincolnshire
Ways of Working: Site based
Hours of work: 8:30am to 5:00pm – Monday to Friday
Contract Type: Permanent
Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
Our site in Bourne prepares fruit, leafy salads, and stir-fry mixes, employing over 1,200 people. The site is conveniently located 16 miles from Peterborough and 12 miles from Spalding and operates at a high-volume, fast-paced level.
What you’ll be doing
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and creative Development Chef to join our team.
This role offers the chance to work across a wide range of retailers and product categories, bringing innovation, flavour, and culinary flair to every project.
Role Accountabilities:
- Builds strong, effective relationships across key internal functions to support successful development activity.
- Manages and supports the team to deliver development projects to the highest standards.
- Oversees hospitality for customer and senior stakeholder visits, providing professional and responsive support as required.
- Confidently presents products to internal and external stakeholders, demonstrating strong culinary expertise, creativity, and passion; responds constructively to feedback and takes appropriate action.
- Contributes to the customer pipeline through creative, commercially viable product and process ideas; translates food trends into relevant development and supports sector-led innovation.
- Understands operational capabilities and maintains awareness of wider business activity.
- Ensures the development kitchen is maintained to a consistently high standard.
- Delivers NPD and EPD to agreed quality standards and timelines, applying commercial insight to identify margin improvement opportunities.
What we’re looking for
- Previous experience in a similar role within the food industry, ideally in an FMCG environment.
- Creative and passionate about food, demonstrating flair and finesse in culinary work.
- Resilient and tenacious, with a positive attitude and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.
- A natural team player, confident in engaging across the business and presenting to customers.
- Strong alignment with company values and a commitment to delivering high standards in all aspects of the role.
We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.
If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
What you’ll get in return
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Pension up to 8% matched
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
- Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.
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