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Junior Development/Sample Chefs

Location: East Midlands

Job Type: Permanent

Discipline: Development Chefs

Reference: JBM7850

Contact: 01625 560778

Consultant: Jack Mitchell

Start Date: ASAP

Salary: £20000 - £24000

Summary

This role is suited to a candidate who has at minimum a two of years at Chef de Partie or Junior Sous level with a couple of appointments in very good restaurants or perhaps for someone who has completed a BA in Culinary Arts with kitchen placement experience.

Job Description

This is a great chance to a be coached and learn all aspects of working in an NPD Kitchen (New Product Development), this is a great opportunity to learn from the 'grass roots' the fundamentals of working in Food New Product Development.

This is a supporting role and will involve lots of comparative shopping, and sample making, kitchen bench work, working alongside and reporting to an experienced NPD Chef. You'll be assisting with the preparation of NPD related paper work including presentations, storing and archiving detailed information following benchmarking exercises and reviews and preparing samples for customers.

As the supporting NPD Chef your role will be heavily involved assisting developing chilled value added products for M&S, working with the Senior Chefs refining and developing recipes.

Personally you will need to be a meticulous organiser, have an eye for detail and possess a high degree of common sense. A car driver is essential. This role has genuine career progression opportunities.

This is an exceptional career opportunity and will provide a solid grounding to a longer term career in food product development. Our client has an enviable reputation for delivering great chilled food products and as part of a major chilled food group can offer scope for career and self-development.

Are you a Chef who has a passion for food, aware of trends with an excellent skill base and keen to really get to grips with what influences the nations eating habits? Get in touch to explore a career as an NPD Chef.

Ref JBM7850

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