CULINARY CONSULTANT - REMOTE

Compass Group

12d•Remote

About The Position

Foodbuy is the industry leader in procurement and supply chain solutions, a subsidiary of Compass Group PLC. They work with clients in Hospitality, Restaurant, Healthcare, Education, Entertainment, and Gaming industries, and also support Compass Group. Foodbuy prides itself on sourcing products and services to help clients run their businesses more easily and cost-effectively. They foster a culture that encourages big thinking, innovation, and debate, with strong benefits, competitive compensation, and opportunities for career growth. Their value system, People FIRST (Flexibility, Inclusion, Results, Sustainability, and Transparency), is the foundation of their operations. The primary duty of this position is to analyze healthcare customer business models to provide value-added support and analysis to increase company purchasing income by improving compliance to negotiated programs. Duties include suggesting products and improved processes benefiting productivity and profitability.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, culinary degree or equivalent work experience required.
4+ years related experience required.
Extremely Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
Problem solver
Strong organizational skills needed to manage multiple projects.
Strong professional presentation and interpersonal skills combined with good verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work in groups as well as individually while holding multiple stakeholders accountable to outcomes.
Able to multi-task concurrent projects with quick deadlines

Nice To Haves

Strong culinary background and/or operational background preferred.
Product development and/or training experience is a plus.
Clinical experience and certification is a plus
Supply chain, power BI, conversion file experience a plus.

Responsibilities

Drive key customer business success by consulting with the customer on all aspects of culinary operations by using on-site visits, customer data analysis and established industry standards by using culinary and operations expertise to provide recommendations for improvement.
Conduct recipe research and development to promote contract targeted products; work in conjunction with stakeholders to provide culinary input and advice; assess and evaluate new products and develop materials to increase use of contracted products and customer awareness of such products.
Obtains specific feedback, to ensure high quality meals and diverse alternatives, from customers, likes and dislikes; provides statistical data on food preferences and wastage.
Develop kitchen/operations assessment for customers; utilize other members of the team to build action plans to address short and long-term opportunities from the front of the house and back of the house. Deliver conclusions that assist the customer in achieving business goals.
Introduce and inform customer about contracted products with emphasis on specific brands and partnering manufacturers to include groceries, meat, produce, specialty, beverage, COP, and disposables.
Identifies and recommends areas of continuous improvement for products, processes, procedures that support the menu and benefit unit level economics.
Complies with all local and state food safety and health code regulations.
Demonstrate potential solutions including culinary, ideation, multi-task preparation and presentation of product.
Assist customers in establishing and executing strategic purchasing initiatives to drive revenues and contract utilization.
Provide reporting to measure impact of culinary activities for tracking, key performance indicators, customer follow up and case studies.
Serve as product knowledge expert for support in conversion activities and opportunity analysis review.
Support culinary activities for onboarding new customers.
Support product match and mapping activities as requested.
Coordinate product cuttings and showcases including ordering product, creating collateral and follow ups as needed for team members.
Work with manufacturers on any product or program related activities.
Coordinate nutritional/spec information and samples.
Schedule and coordinate Business Reviews/Showcases with manufacturers.
Establish a strong partnership with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure agreed-upon needs are met.
Promote process improvements, services, and solutions within assigned business segment to potential customers.
Actively pursue continuous learning of industry knowledge to ensure selection and delivery of best insights for usage with customer.