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Senior Development Chef

Focus Management Consultants

England

On-site

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Development Chef to join their skilled culinary team. In this exciting role, you will create innovative recipes across diverse product categories and collaborate with various departments to ensure successful product launches. The company is known for its excellent team culture, offering great benefits and career progression opportunities. This position provides a unique chance to work in a state-of-the-art development kitchen, where your passion for food will thrive. If you are a creative chef eager to make an impact in the food industry, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Career Progression Opportunities
Great Benefits
Friendly Work Environment

Qualifications

  • Highly skilled Chef with experience in top quality restaurants.
  • Experience in food manufacturing, food service, or retail is essential.

Responsibilities

  • Creating new recipes across various product categories and cuisines.
  • Working with suppliers to ensure product quality and requirements.

Skills

Culinary Skills
Recipe Development
Product Benchmarking
Supplier Management
Taste Panel Participation

Education

Culinary Arts Training

Job description

Opportunities like this Senior Development Chef role do not come around often….

There are very few Development Chef positions that offer the variety you’ll get here.

As Senior Development Chef, you’ll be working in a talented team of culinary professionals, all passionate about creating delicious, high-quality products.

Day to day, you’ll be in the development kitchen, creating new recipes across different product categories, cuisines, and price points. You’ll work closely with colleagues across other business areas to support new product launches, ensuring taste and quality are maintained through the process. You’ll work with suppliers, ensuring they are well-briefed and delivering products that meet consumer and company requirements. You’ll be involved in taste panels, product benchmarking and innovation days.

This is a site-based role working Mon-Fri days in a fantastic development centre with superb facilities. You’ll be joining a highly regarded food business that’s recognised for looking after its team and for doing excellent work in the local community. People tend to stay here as they are well-rewarded with great benefits and career progression opportunities alongside enjoying the company culture – people are genuinely friendly here and love what they do.

About you…

You’ll need to be a highly skilled Chef with a broad repertoire to succeed here. You’re likely to have trained and cut your teeth in top quality restaurants before making the move into Product Development. Your experience as a Development Chef could be in food manufacturing, food service or retail. In addition, having huge enthusiasm, energy, and interest in all aspects of food is what they are looking for.

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REF. RLS51925

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