Regional Chef - Southeast US

CUSTOM CULINARY

For more than half a century weve focused on a single mission at Custom Culinary: to create the finestquality most authentic bases sauces and gravies for our foodservice and food processing customers. Developed by our culinary specialists to deliver madefromscratch taste and inspired results in just minutes our products bring exceptional aroma flavor and consistency to all your signature dishes. True Taste begins with Custom Culinary.CUSTOM CULINARY

Por ms de medio siglo en Custom Culinary nos hemos concentrado en una sola misin: crear las bases salsas y aderezos ms autnticos y de mejor calidad para nuestros clientes de la industria alimentaria. Desarrollados por nuestros especialistas culinarios para ofrecer un sabor elaborado a partir de cero y resultados inspirados en cuestin de minutos nuestros productos aportan un aroma un sabor y una consistencia excepcionales a todos sus platos. El verdadero sabor comienza con Custom Culinary.

Passionate about nourishing people sustainability and culinary arts & science Perfect! One of our many purpose driven roles is that of our Chefs on our Culinary team. We currently have an opportunity for a Regional Chef for the Southeast area.

With the purpose of providing support and expertise to Culinary Leadership Sales and Marketing in the development of differentiating food products for national regional industrial and field accounts. Additionally this position will support budgeted annual sales goals in accordance with our Triple Bottom Line (People Planet Performance) while also encompassing the spirit of a corporate mission: to be true to the food and nourishing the world.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provides Culinary support technical and tactical expertise to the Custom Culinary Sales Team primarily in the Southeast region. This chef will have the unique opportunity to work with our Custom Culinary Team of talented and experienced chefs our Global Team of Griffith Foods Chefs and will have many opportunities for growth within the larger organization.
• Responsible for being the regional expert for our Custom Culinary product portfolio. This chef would have the unique opportunity to create custom product applications for our diverse high quality culinary forward RTU products. This chef would have the ability and passion for food required to create appropriate menu/industry concepts and recipes for all channels of Sales including working hiptohip with our customer network of chefs creating unique oneofakind proprietary product.
• Responsible for working closely with the Commercial team to integrate the necessary data insights or other guidelines that inform recipe creation with the goal of leading a custom strategy with our Custom Culinary customers in the region and be able to support tactical requests such as recipe formulation operational tool development culinary advice to our customers.
• The position would require travel up to 20 outside of this region for event/culinary activity support. Total travel will be approximately 60 of this positions schedule.
• Responsible for the of a variety of culinary special projects at the request by and at the discretion of the head of the Culinary Department. This may include interesting team activities such as creating and executing a menu for our Global Team meetings at the corporate office in Lombard Illinois or creating a unique recipe for a food show with up to 600 attendees. These special activities would give this chef unique exposure to our Custom Culinary & Griffith Global executives as well as top industry leaders.
• This role would include lending physical culinary support to our Culinary Team members for larger Trade shows and industry events. This gives this role the unique exposure to highlevel Chefs in the industry and an opportunity to learn from a diverse team of highly skilled and certified Chefs
• Responsible for independent scheduling and managing daily activities in coordination with the Sales team members being supported for projects assigned.
• Responsible for leading the training of culinary acumen as it relates to Custom Culinary product use and application for our customers. Specifically this chef will support sales by training these individuals and the regions broker network on an ongoing basis to increase and leverage the culinary acumen of the company.
• This position may require an occasional weekend for Trade Shows and other industry events. Approximately 24 times per year.
• This position will support sales with technical culinary acumen as the chef to chef relationship to the regions customers. This may include managing and organizing multiple onsite presentations/cuttings etc. to meet proprietary product targets.
• This position will support the administration of our recipe database and Teams Culinary sites as needed no more than 10 of this positions activities.

Qualifications:

• Must have a minimum of an AOS in Culinary Arts or equivalent.
• Must earn and maintain professional certification with a leading culinary organization within the first 18 months of employment if not already achieved. I.E. American Culinary Federation or the Research Chefs Organization.
• Must have a minimum of 4 years of professional experience in one or more of the following positions: Corporate or regional chef in a foodservice operator setting; a hotel sous chef (or higher) in a hotel setting fine dining catering or banquet operations; a consultant chef for an agency specializing in National Chain Accounts industrial R&D chef or sales support chef in foodservice or manufacturing operation.
• Must demonstrate knowledge of basic and advanced culinary techniques with the ability to creatively support and translate written concepts into live taste samples
• Must have a strong command of soft skills such as TEAMWORK listening effective communication prioritizing organizing problemsolving dependability adaptability flexibility selfmotivation responsibility business etiquette integrity openmindedness creativity. critical thinking and time management.

Pay Range: 69 Min 93 Mid 116 Max

Benefits:

** Benefits for this role include Medical Rx Dental Vision Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts EAP Health Advocacy Financial Planning Parental Leave Care Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance Education Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement Safety Reimbursement Lifestyle Spending Account Group Life & AD&D Voluntary Life Insurance Short Term & Long Term Disability 401(k) Plan with Company Match ESOP PTO Holidays & Leaves Accident Insurance Critical Illness Insurance Hospital Indemnity Home & Auto Insurance Pet Insurance Identity Theft Protection Long Term Care Life Insurance & Legal Assistance. There is also a potential for a discretionary bonus this bonus is based on personal & company performance and is not a guaranteed bonus plan. **

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