Commercial Chef - Away From Home

Overview

Commercial Chef - Away From Home We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Chef - Away From Home to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The position is part of the local Sales team in the Away From Home department. Away From Home is an important pillar of Kraft Heinz's global growth strategy and is becoming more important as people eat out more often and trends from food service are often adopted by consumers indoors. You will be responsible for culinary activities supporting the sales team. In this position you will have a lot of contact with food professionals, category managers and head chefs of our National Accounts. This position reports directly to the Trade Marketing Manager Away from home.

Responsibilities

• Targets and priorities: Work with the commercial team to build strong relationships with our most important customers, distributors & prospects and deliver annual their sales targets
• Understand and share culinary market trends and insights to coordinate our business strategy
• Prepare and execute internal and external culinary sessions to present new products, demonstrate trends, contribute menu and recipe ideas
• Coordinate and lead customer visits at outlet level with the foodservice team
• Coordinate with marketing team to align on culinary strategy, portfolio needs and product improvement based on business objectives
• Develop menus and recipes for our key customers and our marketing materials
• Organize culinary quarterly training sessions for our Away From Home sales team focused on product and portfolio knowledge, as well as applications of our products
• Interact directly with select customer accounts

Profile

The Away From Home Commercial Chef has a good balance between culinary and commercial skills. You can deal with commercial objectives that you share with the Away From Home Channel Managers. You have an excellent understanding of the culinary and technical challenges of our most important customers in each Away From Home channel. You use your culinary experience and communication skills to propose ideas, opportunities and insights that will provide solutions for our customers, and create business wins for the company. We are looking for a representative, expressive and commercially driven chef with enormous ambition and excellent communication skills.

Hard Skills / Qualifications

• At least 2 years of work experience as a Chef, Culinary manager, NPD manager or similar commercial position
• Strong communication skills: understanding, interpreting, informing, presenting, convincing, collaborating, working in project teams
• Chef, Culinary or Food Science education / background / commercial in food market
• Knowledge about the Away From Home channels (hotels, FSR, QSR, pubs, catering, industry, institutional)
• Knowledge and appreciation of our Away From Home portfolio categories (cold & warm sauces, beans)
• Being able to work under (time) pressure, you are flexible and adapt fast to new situations
• Available full time
• Ideally has a broad network in local Away From Home
• Able to travel up to 70% of the time

Professional Attributes

• Result driven - You don’t only focus on your own results, but always do what’s best for the company.
• Curiosity, positivity & passion - You’re curious, positive and enthusiastic. People know you as the driver of the team.
• Team player - Achieving results is nice, but achieving results with the team is simply the best. Being a standout colleague means you’re sometimes a leader, sometimes a follower but always working towards the same common goal together with your teammates.
• Empathy – listening to the customer - You’re known for your emotional intelligence. You listen more and talk less, and therefore truly understand your customer. With that demeanor you build commercial chances to optimize the customer experience.
• Project management skills - Time management has no secrets for you. You’re organized, structured and always have an overview of all the deliverables. You know how to bring multiple projects to a successful ending within the given timeframe.

What we offer you

• 12-month fixed-term contract in outsourcing
• Company car
• An ambitious employer; we only want the best for you;
• A fast career track like only few other companies can match;
• Always room for new insights; if you have an idea, please let us know, and we can set it in action!

Location(s) Milano

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.