Development Chef: From Concept to Scaled Launch

Simmer; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Simmer in West London is seeking a Development Chef to take new meals from concept through scaled production and launch. You’ll spend significant time in the kitchen developing recipes, tasting ingredients and solving complex scaling challenges to deliver meals that taste brilliant, are nutritious, and commercially viable.

You’ll collaborate with Product Lead and manufacturing partners to ensure recipes perform reliably at scale, adjusting as needed and driving continuous improvement across

Qualifications

• Hands-on recipe development experience.
• Ability to take a dish from idea to repeatable, launch-ready scale.
• Experience balancing flavour, nutrition, cost and operational constraints.

Responsibilities

• Develop and test recipes in our development kitchen.
• Turn food ideas into dishes that work for Simmer and customers.
• Iterate quickly through tastings, feedback and trials.
• Build nutrition and protein requirements into development.
• Understand ingredient and recipe costs and make sensible commercial decisions.
• Work with suppliers and manufacturing partners on constraints.
• Take recipes through factory trials and scaled production.
• Diagnose flavour, texture, appearance or quality changes when scaling.
• Adapt recipes and processes to solve problems without compromising the dish.
• Improve existing meals and develop new ones.
• Keep up with ingredients, cuisines and trends to improve Simmer's food.

Skills

Flavour instincts

Recipe development

Scaling recipes

Cost awareness

Operational awareness

Problem diagnosis

Deadline-driven

Team collaboration

Low ego

Ownership of dish

Job description

Simmer in West London is seeking a Development Chef to take new meals from concept through scaled production and launch. You’ll spend significant time in the kitchen developing recipes, tasting ingredients and solving complex scaling challenges to deliver meals that taste brilliant, are nutritious, and commercially viable.

You’ll collaborate with Product Lead and manufacturing partners to ensure recipes perform reliably at scale, adjusting as needed and driving continuous improvement across