Development Chef

Alliance Personnel; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance Personnel seeks a highly skilled Development Chef to join one of our clients in Birmingham. The role is to write and cook new products based on briefs, tuning recipes for business needs, and researching new concepts.

You will benchmark against competitors and value engineer current products to stay ahead in a demanding market. The ideal candidate is a trained senior chef with proven recipe development experience, a passion for food, and strong computer literacy, able to communicate

Qualifications

• Must be a trained chef to a senior level.
• Experience developing recipes for a manufacturing business.
• Passion and interest in food.
• Computer literate.
• Comfortable with handling and tasting all types of food.

Responsibilities

• Write, cook and present new product recipes in preparation for management approval.
• Tweak and fine-tune products to meet business needs.
• Research and develop new product concepts relevant to the business needs.
• Communicate tweaks in recipes for management decisions on product viability.
• Benchmark existing products against competitors' alternatives.
• Value engineer current products for a market-driven demand.

Skills

Senior chef

Recipe development

Food passion

Computer literacy

Food tasting

Job description

Alliance Personnel are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Development Chef to join one of our clients based in Birmingham.

JOB PURPOSE

To be responsible for writing and cooking new products based on product briefs.

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

• To write, cook and present new product recipes in preparation for management approval.
• To be responsible for tweaking and fine-tuning products to meet business needs.
• To research and develop new product concepts relevant to the business needs.
• To be able to communicate tweaks in recipes so management can make decisions on product viability.
• To be responsible for bench marking existing products against competitors' alternatives.
• To be responsible for value engineering current products to meet an ever-demanding market.

SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES

• Must be a trained chef to a senior level.
• Must have experience of developing recipes and products ideally for a manufacturing business.
• Must have a passion and interest in food.
• Must be computer literate.
• Must be comfortable with handling and tasting all types of food.

HOURS OF WORK

Flexible 8:30am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday

SALARY

Up to £45,000

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