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Development Chef

Employer
Greencore Group
Location
Wisbech
Salary
PE13 2RD
Closing date
5 Nov 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Development
Business Sector
Other Business Sector

Job Details

  • Improving existing recipes & delivering innovation, providing creative food leadership and you will be pushing the boundaries of conventional food development to deliver fabulous products. 
  • Work closely with PD, Process and Commercial to ensure alignment and delivery of the overall strategy, making sure that technical & operational requirements are always a key consideration in meeting customer needs
  • Assist with customer visits - i.e. helping to set up room, organising lunch, cleaning up.
  • Organise samples requested by customer, prepares samples as instructed, wrapping, packing and labelling.

Package description 

Are you passionate about food and keen to broaden your development knowledge ?

You may not have heard of us, but we’re sure you’ve tried our products. We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing c. 11,800 colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites we supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals.

A little about our NPD team:

Our site in Wisbech supply ASDA  with a selection of ready meals and our NPD Teams are a key part of making this operation successful.

The team are involved in all aspects of bringing a new product to market - from initial concept and bringing them right through to life on shelf, in store.

They are now seeking a creative Development Chef to join them who has a strong creative flair and the ability to encourage creative thinking within a team, you must also be commercially aware and enjoy keeping up to date with new food trends!

Main responsibilities

Previous experience within the food  industry – making you manufacturing savvy.   ... but the understanding of the Stage Gate process is also wanted please.

Working as our Development Chef , you will need to be aware that all the creativity does have to create a product that is manufactured on a very large scale, so a proven track record of translating new food products into commercially viable ideas is essential.

You’ll have a meticulous attention to detail and we’d look for you to be keeping very detailed records for you recipes. You’ll also understand the commercial side to cooking so you’ll be able to cost and replicate recipes. With the role having so many stakeholders you’ll need to be comfortable communicating and presenting your ideas and understanding others.

Ideal candidate

  • Competitive salary and job-related benefits

  • Holidays

  • Pension up to 8% matched

  • Company share save scheme

  • Greencore Qualifications

  • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Company

Greencore Group is a leading international manufacturer of convenience foods. Our ambition doesn't stop at being the world’s largest sandwich producer; we’re looking for passionate, talented people who can help us to drive our future success. People who innovate, create, lead and inspire. We set the bar high, and expect that our people do too.

 

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