Chef (Hot Kitchen experience ONLY)

Cafe Coffee Day; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Café Coffee Day in Bengaluru, India seeks an experienced New Product Development Manager/Asst Manager to track global and local food trends, create new food products, and implement best practices in the industry.

You will lead concept to launch, work with cross-functional teams including QA, procurement, and kitchen operations to ensure tasty, cost-effective innovations that delight customers. This role emphasizes sustainability, quality and process improvements across the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Hotel Management is required.
• 6-15 years experience in Hotel / QSR innovations.
• Hot kitchen with cuisines of continental, American, Oriental, Indian.
• Technical knowledge of frozen foods, science of cooking.

Responsibilities

• New Product Development: Create new food products based on global trends.
• Competition Review: Competitor tracking for products, best practices.
• Product library: Trials and recipe documentation of food.
• Product Costing: Costing and margin analysis of new products.
• SOP and Training Content: Content creation for training of new products.
• Training: Train the trainer programmes and staff training for new products.
• Vendor Management: Source ingredients with external vendors and suppliers.
• Cost Management: Monitor and manage product costs and seek improvements.
• Process enhancement: Identify opportunities for process and equipment improvement.
• Quality Control: Work with QA on product specs, SOPs, and nutritional information.

Skills

New product development

Vendor management

Cost management

Process improvement

Quality control

Education

Bachelor in Hotel Management

Job description

Café Coffee Day's menu consists of different cuisines . The job responsibility of this role is to keep a track of global and local food trends, create new food products and implement best practises in the industry.

Responsibilities

• New Product Development: Create new food products based on global trends
• Competition Review: Competitor tracking for products, best practises
• Product library: Trials and recipe documentation of food
• Product Costing: Costing and margin analysis of new products
• SOP and Training Content: Content creation for training of new products
• Training: Train the trainer programmes and staff training for new products
• Vendor Management: Work with external vendors and suppliers to source ingredients-breads, desserts, gravies, sauces , fillings , seasonings for new product development
• Cost Management: Monitor and manage product costs. Continuous work on improving product costs through alternate ingredients and new vendors
• Process enhancement: Identify opportunities of process and equipment improvement and enhancement in the system
• Quality Control: Work closely with the QA team for product related closures-Product Specifications, SOP's, Nutritional Information, Allergens
• Overall, the new product development manager/asst manager plays a crucial role in new product development, competitor review and tracking global trends, cost management, vendor management and process enhancement

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Hotel Management
• 6-15 years experience in Hotel / QSR innovations
• Hot kitchen with well versed with cuisines of continental , American , Oriental , Indian
• Technical knowledge of frozen foods, science of cooking