Overview

In this hands-on role you will transform chef-driven gold standards into testable product prototypes and MVPs, bridging culinary intent with feasible production. You collaborate with chefs, process development, and supply chain to drive rapid iteration, validation, and scale-up readiness. You will document parameters, support pilot runs, and ensure traceability and high-quality prototypes ready for handoff. This position offers a direct impact on delivering practical, scalable culinary products in a fast-paced R&D; environment.

Responsabilidades

- Develop early culinary prototypes and MVPs following guidance from chefs and senior developers
- Iterate, reformulate, and adjust recipes to meet gold-standard targets
- Document parameters and performance for iteration and scale-up
- Support product handling, quality challenges, and pack-out implications
- Organize samples, build variants, and prepare materials for sprint reviews and tastings
- Collaborate with chefs, process development, supply chain, and quality teams for pilot trials
- Troubleshoot during early-stage co-manufacturing or test production runs
- Maintain logs of formulas, build notes, test results, ingredients challenges, and learnings
- Ensure traceability and development hygiene for all iterations




- Deliver high-quality, well-documented prototypes on time within COGS
- Foster collaboration across culinary, technical, and operational partners
- Enable rapid learning loops feeding into next development cycle
- Produce practical, consistent prototypes ready for handoff to senior developers or scale-up leads

Requisitos principales

- 3–5 years of hands-on product development in food, culinary innovation, or R&D; kitchens
- Experience with at least 2 technologies in Savory products (Ready Meals, Frozen foods, Pasteurization, chilled meals, shelf-stable and/or culinary products)
- Experience with product commercialization and scale-up
- FSQA experience is a major plus
- Strong practical culinary ability to prototype quickly and accurately
- Comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous R&D; environments
- Familiarity with pilot production or co-manufacturing is a plus
- Excellent organization, documentation, collaboration, and communication skills
- Ability to find solutions and be proactive

- collaboration
- communication
- problem solving
- prototype development
- food science or culinary innovation
- product commercialization

📌 Product Development Manager, Food Ventures (Barcelona)
🏢 PepsiCo
📍 Barcelona