Product Developer (m/f/d) Bakery - Focus on Fruit Preparations

Date: Sep 19, 2025

Location: Darmstadt, DE

Company: Döhler Group

Reference ID: 42409

Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?

We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.

Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.

Your Role

  • In this position, you develop innovative recipes and creative concepts in the field of bakery products, with a focus on water-based preparations (fruit and non-fruit preps) – bringing new taste trends to life in close collaboration with our customers.
  • You work with a diverse range of ingredients, most of which we also produce ourselves, including natural flavors, colors, stabilizers, fruits, and many other components.
  • With your technical expertise, you support internal teams and external partners and customers – both for existing products and new developments.
  • In addition to fruit preparations, you have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of bakery projects, making your day-to-day work exciting and diverse.
  • You are involved not only in fruit preparations but also in finished products, evaluating them both sensorially and technologically, and presenting your results internally and to customers.
  • Your daily work is varied, taking you from the laboratory to the pilot plant and production sites at home and abroad, to project meetings, or directly to the customer.
  • You carefully maintain relevant data and recipes in our systems, ensuring smooth documentation and traceability.
  • You work closely with technical project management, sales, product management, quality, and production, supporting the scale-up process through to successful implementation in our plants or pilot facilities.

 

Your Profile

  • You have a degree in food technology, food chemistry, or a comparable qualification.
  • You bring several years of practical experience in the development of fruit preparations or similar products for the bakery sector.
  • You have knowledge of bakery production as well as the use of functional ingredients such as hydrocolloids and flavors.
  • You work in a structured, team-oriented manner and enjoy contributing your own ideas.
  • Your colleagues value your committed and solution-oriented way of working.
  • You have strong communication skills and can convey complex technical content clearly and understandably – both within the team and to customers and partners.
  • You have initial experience with SAP as well as common MS Office applications.
  • You are fluent in German and English

 

Your Benefits

  • Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues
  • Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
  • Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
  • Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
  • Anniversary and special payments
  • Employee referral bonuses
  • Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts, etc.)

Equal opportunities for all

We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Become a part of our team and apply online trough our career portal to the attention of Luisa Rhein. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.