Overview
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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 xqbhyrx 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