Product Developer (m/w/d)

More than one million Domino’s Pizzas are sold every day, making Domino’s Pizza International the world's largest pizza delivery service. With over 17,000 stores in 90 countries, both franchised and company-owned, an annual turnover of more than three billion dollars is generated.

You love pizza and want to be part of a great team? Our mission “Sell more Pizza, have more fun” fits you? Then you're exactly right! Join our 100-person team at the headquarters in Hamburg's beautiful HafenCity and grow with us to 1,000 stores across Germany.

This future tasks fit you…

• Development, planning, and implementation of new, innovative products and recipes under consideration of customer wishes, market trends, commercial aspects, and food law regulations as well as internal system standards.
• Comprehensive accompaniment of product development projects from the first idea to tests, calculations, and market launch.
• Ensuring a strong innovation in product development while maintaining low operational complexity in production.
• Ongoing expansion and optimization of the existing product portfolio regarding quality, processes, and profitability.
• Closely working with Food Procurement, Marketing, Brand Team, Sales, and other internal and external stakeholders (strong focus on interface management and interdisciplinary coordination).
• Supporting corporate and growth strategies through innovative product concepts.
• Observation and analysis of market, competition, and consumer trends in the Informal Eating Out sector to derive relevant product impulses.
• Development, documentation, and maintenance of trend-oriented recipes for internal presentations, systems, and decision-making grounds.
• Creation of product, menu, and business case presentations as well as concept drafts and calculations.
• Preliminary organization and conduct of product development workshops (English as working language).
• Responsibility for the organization and coordination of test kitchen/store environment including product logistics, inventory management, and supply chain management.
• Organization and conduct of internal tastings including sample preparation, sensory evaluation, and result documentation.
• Comprehensive product management (360°), particularly:
• Maintenance and administration of product-relevant databases.
• Creation and maintenance of product, ingredient, allergen, and nutritional information.
• Presentation of documents for internal and external stakeholders.
• Support for marketing and sales measures.
• Active shaping and further development of the themes Food Quality Sourcing, Food Safety, and Animal Welfare.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Food Technology, Oecotrophology, Food Science, or a comparable qualification.
• Alternatively or additionally, a successfully completed vocational training, e.g., as a chef, baker, food technologist, or in the field of (system) gastronomy.
• Ideal candidate has (first to several years) work experience in product development at a food or gastronomy company and experience with product launches.
• Practical experience in an operational restaurant is advantageous.
• Outstanding sensory, gustatory, and visual skills combined with creativity and innovation enthusiasm.
• Excellent sense for current Food & Beverage trends and the ability to translate customer preferences into marketable products.
• Structured, self-motivated, and goal-oriented work style as well as high commitment, flexibility, and reliability.
• Experience in project management and pleasure in steering larger projects.
• Team player with pleasure in working together in international contexts (e.g., close exchange with the Lead Innovation Chef in the Netherlands).
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Fluent German and very good English language skills.
• Driver's license class B and willingness to travel nationwide.
• Main work location: System Center Hamburg, as well as test kitchen/store environment at HafenCity.

We're excited about you…

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