Job title: Senior Food / Process Technologist
Responsible to: Innovation and Sustainability Director
Location: New Moon (Kettering) with some travel to Little HQ (Park Royal)
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Little Moons are frozen and chilled mochi, a fusion of Eastern and Western cuisine – soft and chewy rice flour dough wrapped around balls of ice cream, cheesecake, or chocolate ganache to create a distinctive, bite-sized, and delicious dessert that’s bursting with flavour.
Their rollout across Europe has been pioneered by sister and brother duo Vivien and Howard Wong, who founded Little Moons in 2010. The product’s roots are in high-end restaurants, but over the last five years retail packs have swept the ice cream category in grocery and food service.
The business has rapidly established mochi across Europe and will exceed £50m in revenue in FY21/22.Based on experience in the USA, mochi ice cream is likely to make up 2-3% of the total ice cream category within 1-2 years.
We are very proud of the culture that we have built at Little Moons. Not to stroke our own egos, but we are a great bunch of people—smart, passionate, interesting, and funny—who work hard to support and live our values, all the while keeping our mission in our forethoughts.
The role
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and driven Food / Process Technologist to join our site-based Technical team at our new-build factory in Kettering. This is a unique role as its responsibilities for the first 12-18 months will be focussed on the set-up and validation of the new site, following which the role will transition into business-as-usual responsibilities. The perfect candidate will have an obsession with understanding how food products are made, both in terms of the formulation science as well as the manufacturing process. They will love to get hands-on with the product and spend hours in the factory, combining both to become the expert in the products they make. This role will utilise this expertise to ensure all products transferred to the site launch with excellence, and later support on landing innovation and continuous improvement projects as business-as-usual.
Key Responsibilities
Essential requirements:
To be engaged, you must feel included and valued, so we have built, and nurtured, a culture where inclusiveness is not a buzzword, but a way of being.
Our approach to diversity is simple —it’s about embracing everyone, and everyone is welcome at Little Moons. We are committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation or expression. We are diverse in age, race, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective. Our diversity fuels our innovation, bring diversity of thought, and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve.
All applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom.