Junior Development Chef - NPD & Menu Innovation

Absolute Taste; Bicester; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Absolute Taste are looking for an experienced Junior Development Chef with Food Service/Hospitality experience to join our team in the United Kingdom. You will work closely with the NPD Head Chef to develop seasonal menu propositions for travel clients, while ensuring recipes scale to medium/large volumes with consistent quality.

You will be self-motivated, collaborative and adaptable, with strong food knowledge and a flair for cooking.

Qualifications

• Min 1 years’ experience as a chef
• Fast-paced environment with short lead times
• Passionate foodie with outstanding food knowledge and cooking flair
• Eye for detail and good organisational skills
• Computer literate with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Responsibilities

• Working with our NPD Head Chef to create new, seasonal menu propositions for our travel clients, considering production, regeneration of the food and shelf life restrictions
• Ensure all recipes can be produced on a medium to large-scale volume with keeping consistency
• Optimising ingredients and procedures to minimize human inaccuracies
• Work with local suppliers to ensure the sourcing of fresh ingredients for the business
• Supporting with typing up of recipes and costings where required
• Monitor trends and develop recipes in accordance with customer demands and response
• Maintaining the ongoing development of new and existing quality products – working closely with existing and new customers
• Support with taking product from concept to launch within the operation’s current capabilities
• Define, implement, and monitor process to ensure compliance to all health and regulation requirements
• Customer facing - from product presentations to cooking and presenting lunches/ dinners for clients– a natural good host making a mean cup of tea!

Job description

Absolute Taste are looking for an experienced Junior Development Chef with Food Service/Hospitality experience to join our team in the United Kingdom. You will work closely with the NPD Head Chef to develop seasonal menu propositions for travel clients, while ensuring recipes scale to medium/large volumes with consistent quality.

You will be self-motivated, collaborative and adaptable, with strong food knowledge and a flair for cooking.