Novel Product Development Scientist in Smart Horticulture (KTP Finisher)

Deliver impact in a live commercial environment.
We're looking for a results-focused professional to help bring an innovative sustainable flower production project through to completion. This is a hands-on, delivery-stage role working at the interface of a fast-moving commercial operation and applied research expertise.
You'll take forward existing work and focus on translating insights into practical, scalable outcomes - refining growing protocols, supporting implementation of data-driven models, and ensuring outputs are ready for real-world application.
Working closely with the commercial team and NTU specialists, you'll play a key role in embedding sustainable, controlled-environment production approaches that can be adopted at pace.
What you'll be doing
Finalising and optimising controlled-environment growing protocols for premium flowers
Translating experimental and modelling outputs into operational practices
Working directly with a commercial team to implement solutions in a live setting
Delivering clearly against defined project outcomes within a short timeframe

Direct experience delivering innovation in a commercial horticulture environment
Exposure to cutting-edge sustainable production systems and technologies
A strong track record of tangible project delivery within tight timelines
Who this is ideal for
A commercially aware professional from floriculture, horticulture, agri-tech, or a related sector
A practical problem-solver who can turn data and insights into actionable outcomes
Experience in controlled environments, crop production, or applied R&D is highly desirable
Confident working on-site with stakeholders and driving work forward independently

We are the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Science (ARES) at Nottingham Trent University. Our business is nature: specifically, the environment, animal health and welfare, ecology and conservation, and agriculture and food production..