Business Development Chef:
Excellent salary/package plus great benefits; Hybrid/Remote; South East.
At Impact Food Group, we're driven by creating a positive food culture and helping students eat better food. We learn, develop, and make improvements every day.
Delivered by Innovate, Cucina, and Chapter One, we cater to over 350,000 students across 600+ sites, with continued growth year on year.
We're looking for an experienced Business Development Chef to join our Food team. Reporting to our Food Director, you will develop sales presentations, business retention strategies, and deliver a centre of excellence.
Responsibilities include:
* Preparing and presenting in their region and supporting neighbouring presentations.
* Retention - supporting with added value and business retention presentations, including auditing and development plans for the sites.
* Delivering a centre of excellence for each brand, supporting and developing the food offer, implementing a PVR, and maintaining highest standards of Health and Safety and food safety.
* Mobilisation support, doing site visits, and driving brand standard audits.
* Identifying talent, building a team to support presentations, and pipelining future talent in the business.
* Food development, pressure testing recipes, localising the offer, and driving more sales in the hospitality area.
Requirements include:
* Formal culinary qualification NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent with 3 years' experience in a similar role.
* Computer literate, Microsoft office programmes (Word, Excel, & Powerpoint), alongside our Catering management systems.
* A strong understanding of menu/concept development, cost controls, and operations.
* Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
* Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
* Ability to motivate and inspire teams to achieve high performance.
We offer a competitive salary, bonus, 25 days paid annual leave, access to our online learning platform, employee wellbeing platform, salary sacrifice electric car scheme, and IFG rewards for highstreet discounts, annual summer party, and company awards.
Additional details: IFG are committed to the safeguarding of children and our employees share this commitment. Successful candidates are required to undergo an enhanced DBS check, which we supply the cost for. We are a committed equal opportunities employer.