Product Developer

Rewarding role - Opportunity to significantly impact our customer experience
- Showcase creativity that translates concepts into innovative products Bring your curious mindset and customer centricity

**Ready to make an impact?**

We’re looking for an experienced Product Developer and Passionate foodie to join our team here in Aotearoa.

Joining our Product Development team you’ll take accountability for managing the product development activities in a Fresh Food category portfolio in order to bring innovative products to market in alignment with customer needs.
You will have accountability across customer satisfaction, clear product pathways; stakeholder collaboration and innovation.

**About the Role | Mō te Tūranga**
- Development of strategic plans, taking into account consumer and category insights; global food trends;commercials and seasonality in order to ensure the launch of products that customers will love.
- Identify key suppliers, build NPD briefs and collaborate with suppliers to bring product concepts to life.
- Lead and manage the critical path for each product ensuring first class and timely execution on all product launches.
- Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders including quality technologists; nutrition, packaging; commercial; responsible sourcing and design to ensure all aspects have been considered in the final product design.
- Understanding of local and global supply base capabilities and identifying growth opportunities for Woolworths. Awareness and utilisation of market research, insights and product trends for innovative and strategic product development

**About You | Mōu**

To succeed in this role you will need to be a passionate foodie; a real “people” person with the ability to bring together and influence stakeholders, both internal and external; results focused; have excellent organisational and communication skills and a genuine passion for understanding the customer; product and the supermarket retail world.

If you’re the sort of individual who strives to always do the right thing for customers, team, our communities, and our business then we ought to connect.

To be successful in this position:

- An enthusiastic foodie with a proven track record of successfully delivering NPD strategy from ideation to concept and through to launch.
- An exceptional understanding and knowledge of food trends; ingredients; seasonality and range planning in order to influence and deliver to the business direction.
- Brimming with ideas and inspiration you will have experience in bringing products to market in order to truly delight our customers.
- An understanding and knowledge of food manufacturing and production processes.
- Tertiary Food qualification, min 3 year diploma, degree of similar in food industry (food science/technology; chef; hotel, food nutrition or related industry).
- Minimum 5 years experience in product development or experience in a relevant discipline within a complex/matrix environment.
- A love, passion and infectious enthusiasm for food, innovation and product.
- Strong understanding of product creation; componentry and cost makeup of goods
- Sensory evaluation and product benchmarking skills.
- Sound ability to represent the customer in all product decisions.
- Solid organisational and project management skills. Ability to proactively identify risks and overcome obstacles.

**Working with Woolworths NZ | Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ**

Our purpose is to make Kiwis' lives a little better every day.

We’re friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you’ll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week. We offer a diverse range of career opportunities across our ecosystem.

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**Come as you are | Nau mai, whakatau mai**

We’re an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all.

If you’re smart and good at what you do, let’s work together | Me mahi tahi tatou