Food Developer (m/f/d)

Das ist der Job

What's In It For You • Smart Working & Flexibility: Flexible working hours, hybrid work, and 20 days of workation.

Darum lohnt es sich

Working closely with internal teams and external partners, you’ll have the opportunity to drive innovation and make a tangible impact. • Identify trends, market opportunities, and gaps in the existing assortment to propose new product concepts. • Develop and implement product ideas in line with KoRo’s overall product strategy and brand vision. • Manage the end-to-end product development process: briefing, sampling, internal coordination, testing, launch, and continuous improvement. • Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and manufacturers. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Quality Management, Legal, Operations, and Marketing to ensure smooth project execution. • Keep up with innovations in the food industry, including new technologies, ingredients, and consumer trends.

You’ll receive a MacBook and a fully equipped office setup with monitors and height‑adjustable desks. • KoRo Vibe & Benefits: Free snacks, barista coffee in the office, a 20% discount in the KoRo Online‑Shop, and exclusive perks with partner companies.

Additional benefits include a fully funded BVG ticket (Jobticket), a subsidy for your fitness membership (Urban Sports Club, Hansefit, or FitX), and a company pension scheme (bAV) via Ginkgo. • Shared Moments: Regular team events and company parties to celebrate milestones and successes together.

You don’t mistake effort for impact. • You’re a team player, humble and genuinely kind. You collaborate in and across teams, care about the people around you, and bring sparkles to the room.

What You Will Do As a Food Developer (m/f/d), you will play a key role in shaping and expanding KoRo’s diverse product portfolio – from initial concept to market launch.

This role brings together creativity in ideas, food formulation and food processing, blending it with a strong sense of market trends and delivered through a structured project execution.

What You Bring You will provide the following qualifications and experience: • 2+ years of professional experience in product development within the food industry. • A university degree in food technology, nutrition science, product management, or a comparable field. • Residence in Berlin/the surrounding area or willingness to relocate for the position. • Fluency in English (German is a plus). • A strong grasp of quality standards, sensory evaluation, and end-to-end product lifecycle processes – with depth depending on your experience level. • A refined understanding of taste, texture, and ingredient functionality, and confidence when evaluating and iterating on product samples. • An entrepreneurial mindset with a hands‑on mentality – you take initiative, work independently, and push projects forward with ownership and speed. • Strong communication skills, able to communicate technically with suppliers and effectively with cross‑functional stakeholders. • A passion for food innovation, consumer trends, and creating products that truly resonate with customers.

You’ll also start with 28 days of vacation, increasing by one additional day per year of tenure (capped at 30 days). • Growth & Setup: A structured onboarding plan to get you started, plus a dedicated development budget for your personal and professional growth. People Who Share Our Mindset • You take initiative and ownership.

You don’t wait for a perfect brief or a mandate – you act when you see an opportunity, a risk, or something that can be improved. When things don’t go as planned, you first look at your own contribution and step up without waiting to be asked. • You thrive in change. Shifting priorities and evolving processes don’t slow you down.

You adapt fast and keep moving. • You build, you don’t wait. When something is missing – a tool, a process, a solution – you create it. You prefer a working MVP over a perfect plan and iterate from there. • You think in leverage. You question how things are done, prioritize ruthlessly, and find smarter paths to better outcomes.

You speak up when you disagree, commit fully once a decision is made, and actively make the people around you better.