Pastry Chef

Job Description

NPD Pastry Chef required for a chilled potted dessert manufacturer.

There is an opening for a Pastry Chef with or without previous food manufacturing experience to join the NPD team who develop ranges of potted desserts for retail clients. The vacancy is suitable for a Chef who is able to demonstrate a high level of creativity and a sound technical ability within the pastry section. In parallel with this able to remain mindful of commercial constraints working within budget parameters and the implications on factory processes.

You will need to demonstrate a creative flair, and an eye for detail possessing a good understanding of desserts and ingredients particularly how to best utilise ingredients, maximising their potential. Ideally your cv should highlight a number of years as a Pastry Chef in reputable kitchens where you have had significant in put to the menu moved with trends and exceeded customer expectation.

Transferring your talents to a large scale food manufacturing site will be a challenge but a really exciting one where you will have a definite impact of retail shelves. Daily tasks will be to create, develop and launch high quality profitable product concepts that are aligned to our category strategy, that delight the customer and appeal to the target consumer, following the agreed development framework process at all times.

Ref JBM7328