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Opportunity: Product Development Technologist (12 month FTC)Location: AtherstoneWhy GreencoreWe're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.What you'll be doingHere at Atherstone, we have a team of around 550 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, rolls, bircher pots and toasties for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Starbucks, Aldi, Cafe Nero and the Munch brand sold in WH Smith travel outlets.As a Product Development Technologist your role will be to validate product developments and provide appropriate documentation and support to promote customer acceptance through to seamless product launches.Key Responsibilities:Input recipes onto the recipe management system to assess the cost and nutritional information and ensure delivery against the briefBrief new, revised and repeat material requirements to the NPD buyers and packaging innovation team to ensure the correct resources are available for product developmentPrepare all necessary documentation (feasibility forms, customer submission forms, concept to process handovers etc.) to ensure their accurate pri