R&D Chef (Ready-To-Heat)
R&D Chef (Ready-To-Heat)
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$ 65000 - 75000
1 Vacancy
Job Description
The Research and Development Chef of Tempo will work in the R&D kitchen(s) to conceive and create new recipes for the Ready to Heat (RTH) Home Chef offering that meet our nutritional cost and ingredient specifications.
Detailed Responsibilities
R&D New Meals
- Passionate culinarian with a great palette sense of presentation efficiencies and productivity
- Conceive accessible creative new meal and compound ingredient recipes in the test kitchen that apply to cost ingredient caloric/nutritional time and operational constraints
- Responsible for the creation of about 80 unique meals per quarter
- Collaborate with other chefs to improve and test each others dishes
- Take extensive and honest feedback every day on meal accessibility and flavors and incorporate into recipes
- Work with cross functional partners to expand and refine RTH pantry of ingredients with a focus on customer satisfaction and operational complexity
- Drive for higher customer ratings and satisfaction
- Respond to directives from Culinary Marketing NPD and RTH teams to develop meals that will contribute to increased sales
- Use feedback from production teams to increase efficiency and and decrease operational complexity
- Ability to innovate ideas and implement them
- Creation of compound ingredients and assistance with commercialization
Evaluate Customer Feedback
- Thoroughly understand how average customer interacts with product and strive to make meals as accessible and delicious as possible
- Analyze customer comments on meals from menu runs and incorporate learnings into new recipes
- Integrate learnings from various data sets to improve meal performance
Meeting Participation
- Attend and participate in weekly Culinary and RTH team meetings including Performance Board Team Check-ins RTH Draft Weekly Culinary/Production Debrief etc.
- Visit at least one production facility quarterly to share prescribed training and to work with the local team
This position requires at least 10% travel.
Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
- Completion of a two-year program such as an Associate degree: Culinary Arts or similar
- 5 years experience working in a kitchen or other professional cooking environment. Able to work in a clean and organized manner.
- Culinary degree preferred.
- 2 years prior recipe development experience.
- Self-starter and highly motivated to make meals that an average person can successfully cook at home.
- ServSafe or food handling certification preferred
- Sense of teamwork and collaboration. Works well in group settings to move projects forward provide constructive feedback when needed and support the overall team workload
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Willing and able to receive feedback and implement suggestions
- Understanding of current nutrition food and food industry trends.
- Must be able to taste and provide thorough feedback on every meal and ingredient sample test in the kitchen including vegetarian pork chicken steak and seafood meals.
More About Us
Perks and Benefits
- Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
- Medical dental vision life and disability insurance available
- Paid holidays sick time and vacation time
- 401k program
- Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical dependent care parking or transit expenses
How We Work Together
We are humble team players.
We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.
We are pragmatic next-level thinkers.
We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.
We take ownership.
We approach ambiguous problems prepared to dive in get curious and learn more. We are results-driven always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.
Be at Home at Home Chef
We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities backgrounds and perspectives. You can trust that youll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.
We welcome people of all races colors religions national origin or ancestry sex (including sexual identity) age physical or mental disabilities pregnancy veteran or military status unfavorable discharge from military service genetic information sexual orientation marital status order of protection status citizenship status arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal state or local law.
Home Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact our People team at.
Home Chef offers the base salary range as posted below with the exact offer depending on factors such as geographic location experience skills and internal equity. While compensation is within the provided range it is not typical for offers to be made at the upper addition to base salary Home Chef provides a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare coverage 401k match and paid time off.
Illinois Pay Range
$65000 - $75000 USD
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Employment Type
Full Time
