About us:
We are a company that takes pride in our people as it is our people who are at the centre of everything that we do. We have multi-category expertise with a focus on quality and innovation. We deliver what customers need and consumers want with expert taste and growth mindset. Our business began with meat, and we've developed a market-leading expertise with unmatched quality globally. We're always investing in new technology to deliver more value, efficiency and consumer-led innovative solutions.
What we are looking for:
We are looking for a professional Junior Development Chef to join our growing Innovation/NPD team. As a Junior Development Chef, you will be working as part of the product development team to help support new and existing business opportunities, encouraging new thinking, and supporting the development chefs to take products from concept through pilot to mainstream activity. You will support a stimulating environment for innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, promoting and developing a strong culinary, food processing focused brand. You will identify, support, and manage an innovative approach to business challenges and work with teams across the group to deliver this.
Key responsibilities as a Junior Development Chef will be to:
1. Support an aligned customer innovation strategy that establishes business opportunities and growth for all stakeholders.
2. Support market leading innovation and continually push the business to further product development capabilities.
3. Support the development chefs in the concept development from strategic stage, through stakeholder signoff to launch.
4. Ensure the standard of product development throughout concept to launch alongside the development chefs.
5. Manage and maintain all customers and executive visits catering and event requests on site.
6. Collaborate with all departments of our customer fronting teams, assuring all stakeholders are aligned with innovation project priorities.
7. Support the development chefs with their work with suppliers and new suppliers to create market leading innovation.
8. Support the development chefs with product creations; including interactions with the factories and suppliers regarding on site sourcing of raw materials.
9. Maintain the on-site kitchen; ensuring core hygiene standards and organisation to ensure we are technically compliant and minimise waste.
10. Encourage and grow a food culture.
11. Encourage, support and drive business change.
12. Maintain a strong customer relationship.
Required experience/expertise to succeed as a Junior Development Chef will include:
1. Proven track record of successful product development.
2. Culinary experience (classically trained).
3. Graduate level capability.
4. Broad food production and process experience.
5. Proven track record of delivering business change utilising structured approaches to project management.
6. Strong influencing skills and relationship management at all levels internally and externally.
What you get in return:
Great package with competitive holiday allowance, life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary, opportunities for development and internal promotion, cycle to work scheme, share save scheme, variety of discounts at well-known retailers and gyms, free car parking on site, subsidised canteen, enhanced maternity/paternity.
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