Commercial Development Chef, Food, Lincolnshire
- Employer
- Focus Management Consultants Ltd
- Location
- Lincolnshire
- Salary
- £45000 - £55000 per annum + Company Car & Bonus
- Closing date
- 31 May 2022
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Development
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details

This is no poultry career move. It's a chance to start building a brand-new range of food products for this smashing business with exciting prospects.
This is an excellent role if you want to work in a brand-new set up and be the first Development Chef within this food business. Sounds extraordinary I know, but the idea has been hatched out of a desire to take their products to the next level, and an extraordinary Development Chef is what we need.
You'll work within a great business, with heritage and a great track record. They will provide a development kitchen, technical team, and factory unit set to assist you in succeeding as you become a key influence across the business. Smashing out ideation, developing concepts through to commercial implementation you're building a pipeline for the future.
Working with co-manufacturers and suppliers as you consider the latest food trends, as well as homely classics already tried and tested. Adapting with this key food ingredient, recipes that can become first-to-market products on the shelves of the UK's major grocery retailers and supermarkets.
You'll already be working within a food manufacturer as a Development Chef. You know what is required to take a concept through the stage gate processes, working with the technical team as you ensure required standards are surpassed. You'll plan and run the sensory and organoleptic trials as well as factory trials. Refining the finished product to get to an exacting level that will have your new additions to the shelves, flying off them!
Don't be chicken, get in touch. Tell us about your Development Chef successes to date, and we'll explain how you'll have the run of the coop here as you take on the next level for this exciting business's growth plans.
(Relocation package available if required)
P.S. Have you worked out the key ingredient yet?!
REF. FTL44925
Company
Since 1990, Focus Management has been changing the face of food and drink recruitment.
During this time we have excelled to become the sector's leading recruitment consultancy in both UK and international markets.
If you're a candidate looking for food industry jobs, you've come to the right place. If you're a food or drink business looking for new talent, let's talk.
We have a wealth of experience working closely with a diverse range of food and drink manufacturers, food retailers, ingredients companies and food service businesses. In addition to placing candidates into Manufacturing, Technical, Engineering, Product Development, Sales, Marketing, HR, Supply Chain and Purchasing functions, we have built entire teams for some of the largest blue chip food companies in the world today.
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