Creative Culinary Lead

Annie's Provedore & Produce Store Barwon Heads; Barwon Heads; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Annie's Provedore & Produce Store Barwon Heads is seeking a Creative Culinary Lead to shape the culinary direction with the owner. This role goes beyond a traditional kitchen, requiring you to think creatively, develop menus, and translate ideas into beautifully executed, commercially viable dishes.

You will influence menus, events, and experiences while maintaining high standards and managing food costs within a collaborative hospitality environment.

Qualifications

• Creatively driven with a love for developing dishes and exploring ingredients.
• Ability to inspire a kitchen team and maintain high standards.
• Strong focus on developing menus, concepts and events.
• Understanding of food costs, planning, and kitchen organisation.

Responsibilities

• Evolve menus and seasonal dishes
• Develop catering concepts
• Plan and execute special events
• Create food and wine experiences
• Develop new culinary concepts and experiences
• Take briefs, understand the vision, bring expertise and creativity, and deliver results
• Inspire a kitchen team and establish high standards
• Manage food costs, planning, preparation and kitchen organisation

Skills

Creatively driven

Inspire a kitchen team

Menu development

Food cost understanding

Job description

Annie's Provedore & Produce Store Barwon Heads - Barwon Heads VIC

This is a Creative Culinary Lead role working closely with the owner to help shape the culinary direction of Annie's Provedore. This isn't a traditional kitchen role. You'll think creatively, challenge ideas, develop menus and make them happen. You'll have the freedom to bring your ideas to the table, but you'll also need to turn those ideas into food that is exciting, consistent, beautifully executed and commercially viable.

Key responsibilities

• Evolve menus and seasonal dishes
• Develop catering concepts
• Plan and execute special events
• Create food and wine experiences
• Develop new culinary concepts and experiences
• Take briefs, understand the vision, bring expertise and creativity, and deliver results
• Inspire a kitchen team and establish high standards
• Manage food costs, planning, preparation and kitchen organisation

About you

• Creatively driven with a love for developing dishes and exploring ingredients
• Have a distinctive style of cooking and a perspective on food, while remaining curious and open to other ideas
• Understand that creativity only matters when the end result is delivered beautifully, consistently and efficiently
• Can take direction, ask the right questions, understand a brief and communicate clearly
• Have the confidence and emotional intelligence to inspire a kitchen team and take responsibility
• Understand food costs, planning, preparation, kitchen organisation, catering and the commercial realities of running a successful hospitality business
• Understand that a great dish is part of something bigger - the wine, the people, the occasion, the atmosphere and the story behind it

About us

Annie's Provedore is a place where food is about more than what's on the plate. It's about good food, great wine, people, atmosphere and creating experiences that people remember.