Job Description
The Company
Market leaders within their categories, this long established food manufacturer work closely with the retailers, creating fabulous food for their discerning customers.
They are now looking for a talented and super foodie Senior Development Chef to come in and cook up a storm!
The Role
In this exciting and rewarding role you’ll develop inspirational new concepts for major retail customers. You’ll also be refreshing existing ranges to keep up with the latest food and ingredient trends, monitoring competitor products and performance to ensure your ranges are the best in the market.
Working at pace, whilst nurturing a small team of Development Chefs, you will take responsibility for the management of key projects that will lead to continued commercial success. This will be by liaising with internal teams to fully map out and understand the critical path, and how to reach key milestones. You’ll consider new ingredients and production capabilities by using your culinary prowess to trouble shoot any potential manufacturing issues.
A key part of this role will be managing key customer expectations. You’ll build rapport with leading retailers, presenting new concepts and collaborating at every step to ensure project alignment and ultim...