GBR Recruitment Ltd, are working in exclusive partnership with a well established progressive SME size food manufacturing company based in the heart of Northamptonshire, recruiting for a highly creative, highly innovative NPD Development Chef, to come up with new culinary delights to meet current market trends / tastes.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is passionate about creating new product lines that can be produced in volume for B2B & retail customer markets.
This role could suit someone working in a professional Chef role, working with food manufacturing, hospitality, restaurants, hotels, gastro pubs or a bistro type setting.
Duties:
* Produce culinary delights for customers to sample & approve
* Develop fresh new ideas, that can be turned from conceptual ideas into new production runs, ready for customers shelves
* Create recipes that can be followed & produces on a high volume scale, ensuring the factory has the capability to deliver such quantities
* Producing specifications for the products developed in the NPD kitchen
* Maintaining a list of the core ingredients / measures for all new lines
* Ensure stock levels are kept in line with NPD requirements
* Ensure the development kitchen is audit ready at all times
* Attend production runs for new product launches
* Evaluate current food lines & look at ways to improve them (CI)
* Deliver effective / professional customer food presentations
* Communicate professionally with internal teams & clients
* Work closely with the Process Technologists / Technical teams
* Liaise effectively with Production operations & Commercial teams
* Turn conceptual ideas into reality
Attributes Desired:
* Experienced in a NPD Chef / Creative Chef role or very similar
* A passionate foodie, who is up to date with current food trends / tastes
* Used to producing food that can be volumised (mass produced)
* Food qualifications, plus time served within a professional kitchen
* Strong professional communicator at all levels
* Able to work within an SME sized business (flexible / adaptable)
This key NPD Chef role is commutable from: Northampton, Earls Barton, Rushden, Wellingborough, Raunds, Thrapston, Kettering, Burton Latimer, Bedford, Milton Keynes & surrounding areas close to these.
Interviews to take place immediately for the right applicant/s