Corporate Executive Chef

Quovis, Inc.; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Quovis, Inc. is seeking a Corporate Executive Chef to lead cooking demonstrations and training efforts, working closely with sales and dealers to showcase product lines and drive adoption.

This high-visibility role involves product testing, recipe creation, live demonstrations, and collaboration with engineering and product management to set testing criteria and timelines. Qualified candidates bring a culinary degree, 10+ years kitchen experience, and strong presentation and leadership skills,

Qualifications

• Culinary degree and at least 10 years of kitchen experience.
• Experience training or coaching others on food equipment operations.
• Ability to multitask and set priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong presentation and leadership skills with customers.

Responsibilities

• Conduct product demonstrations at test kitchens, customer sites, or corporate sites.
• Lead demonstrations at company headquarters to raise product awareness.
• Serve as product expert answering questions from reps, dealers and end-users.
• Coordinate live cooking demonstrations at trade shows nationwide and internationally.
• Support new product development and cross-functional engineering/product management testing.

Skills

Product demos

Staff training

Public speaking

Leadership

Time management

Education

Culinary degree

Job description

The Corporate Executive Chef is a highly-visible and hands-on cooking, and training position that will work closely with our sales department as well as with dealers, sales representatives and end-users to drive sales for all of our company’s product lines. Will also help support new product development and launches through product testing and evaluation, customer support, recipe creation/cooking and product demonstrations.

JOB DUTIES:

• Conduct product demonstrations of our cooking products in the field either at our test kitchens, customer sites or corporate test sites
• Lead product demonstrations at company headquarters to help bring awareness our products cooking ability to perspective customers
• Expert in all the company’s products to be able answer any questions from reps, dealers, and end-users
• Help with meal planning and preparation for demonstration events either internally or externally
• Coordinate and conduct live cooking demonstrations at trade shows both nationally and internationally
• Support all departments in New Product Development
• Support collaborative and cross-functional engagement and support of engineering/product management function to help establish product/equipment testing criterion and application performance objectives while meeting required project deadlines
• Effectively manage and utilized culinary team resources through established standards and best practices to support global sales growth objectives
• Manage and execute at a high-level functional support of ongoing marketing development
• Management and departmental task assignment to support collaborative and cross functional engagement and support of engineering function to establish product/equipment testing criterion and applications performance objectives while meeting required project deadlines
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Culinary degree and minimum of 10 years work experience in a variety of kitchens
• Past experience training/teaching/coaching others on food equipment operations
• Ability to multi-task and setting priorities in a fast-pace environment
• Strong presentation and leadership skills in front of customers