NPD Pastry Chef

Summary

Chefs experienced in all aspects of Pastry … …  This is an opportunity to transfer your kitchen pastry experience into large scale dessert manufacturing. Take your years of designing and developing dishes and recipes for the hospitality sector and convert them into retail friendly products.

Job Description

This is a superb chance to work with an experienced dessert team who will train and support you in all aspects of NPD (Product Development)

Our client is a division of a highly reputable chilled food manufacturer; an established leader in developing and producing chilled products.  This site specialises in chilled dessert, developing and manufacturing for a number of retail clients including Tesco & Waitrose and many more. Over the years the site has grown and evolved significantly to cope with the increase in business success. There are a number of Pastry Chefs on site who have come from respected hospitality backgrounds and have transferred their culinary skills to develop products for retail sale, they will be able to support any Chef new to this arena.

Innovation is constantly at the forefront of this NPD Department. They look at existing ranges; perfect and refine recipes, consider ingredients, flavour combinations, cost and food trends. They also consider cooking methods and new technologies working to develop dessert products that will keep their customers ahead of competitors.

As an NPD Pastry Chef in this division you will work dedicated to specific retail clients and be able to provided a dedicated service and really get to know their busiess needs. You will work  alongside a team of NPD Pastry Chefs and report to a Senior NPD Pastry Chef who will train and nurture you until you have a good grasp on the demands of the role of Development Chef working from customer briefs, completing benchmark analysis of competitor products, making samples for internal tasting sessions and also for retailer submission. 

It is vital that you are an organised and methodical Chef with a constant eye for detail following specifications and mindful at all times of food health and safety.

The hours of work will differ considerably from that of a conventional kitchen - goodbye to split shifts and there will be limited weekend work.  

This role will suit a Pastry Chef who has a number of years working in Pastry sections of high quality kitchens; minimum 2-3 years, unless you can demonstrate that your skill level is high and that you have fast tracked your knowledge. You will need to have well honed and diverse pastry skills and used to working with a wide range of ingredients, and able to recognise provenance and seasonality of ingredients and produce, and of course be up to date with current trends from restaurant and retail perspectives.

Not only do you need to be a talented Pastry Chef you will need to be comfortable working as part of a team; sharing and learning from each other. Your interpersonal skills will need to be friendly and receptive to others ideas and able to take criticism and move on to deliver projects in hand.

Whether you are a Pastry Chef with two or eight years experience, we want to hear from you provided you have a real passion for all things pastry related and  can back up the passion with real skill and know-how.

New Product Development Chef roles are highly sought after - our client will begin interviewing immediately.
Don't delay sending a comprehensive cv that highlights your skills and competencies and where you have influenced a dessert menu.

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