Product Development Manager
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Job Description
Lead dry blend innovation in a market‑leading NZ food business ready for growth.
13th May, 2026
We’re partnering with a leading New Zealand food manufacturing business with a dominant position in their chosen sector, now looking to diversify and grow their dry blending capability. This is a genuine greenfield‑style opportunity where you will help shape direction, lift capability, and set the standard for future product success.
Working closely with senior leadership, this role requires a senior Product Development Technologist who can turn ideas into commercially successful products, fast. The business already supplies supermarket own‑label and food service channels, and is now focused on getting product performance right first time, strengthening tender outcomes, and building a more strategic product pipeline.
This is not a “watch and wait” environment – you’ll be expected to take ownership, bring structure, and help define what great looks like...