Culinary Innovation Chef — Applications & Development

Kerry Group; Naas; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kerry Group is seeking a dynamic Chef to join our Retail Chef team in Naas, Ireland, supporting customers across Central Europe. You will create on-trend food applications, showcase Kerry's Taste and Nutrition portfolio, and drive product innovation across meals, soups, sauces, meat, and plant-based products.

Collaboration with RD&A, Marketing, and Commercial teams is essential. In this customer-facing role, you will help accelerate product development, deliver consumer-preferred solutions, and

Qualifications

• Further education in a culinary, food or chef environment.
• Experience working as a Chef, with hands-on experience.
• Ability to prepare and present a broad range of technology building blocks in final application as a food concept.

Responsibilities

• Proactively create new and innovative concept ideas based on Kerry Technologies (stocks, fermentation, flavours, dairy tools, positive nutritional tools, marinades, coatings, etc.), customer needs and innovation driven by market insight.
• Take direction from the marketing teams in terms of trends and take direction from commercial leads to ensure you are working on opportunities that will grow our business.
• Implement strict positive release process across projects to bring consistency and high standards.
• Prepare and execute creative product presentations for customers demonstrating a sound understanding of Kerry’s global technology capability and manufacturing capabilities aligned to customer needs.
• Bring chef and food insight into the business driven by a love of food and how good food is made.
• Maintain awareness of competitors, the market and consumer trends.
• Build relationships across the Global Kerry Craft Collective.
• Build peer to peer relationships at target customer retailer and connected manufacturers and use these relationships to drive value for the customer and Kerry.
• Ensure day-to-day maintenance, general good housekeeping practices of the laboratories, equipment, presentation & customer suites. Maintain health and safety standards.
• Work closely with Kerry technologists to execute against customer briefs, using market and culinary knowledge.

Skills

Culinary expertise

Food presentation

Market insight

Education

Culinary education

Job description

Kerry Group is seeking a dynamic Chef to join our Retail Chef team in Naas, Ireland, supporting customers across Central Europe. You will create on-trend food applications, showcase Kerry's Taste and Nutrition portfolio, and drive product innovation across meals, soups, sauces, meat, and plant-based products.

Collaboration with RD&A, Marketing, and Commercial teams is essential. In this customer-facing role, you will help accelerate product development, deliver consumer-preferred solutions, and