Executive Chef, North American Foodservice

Campbell's•Camden, NJ

1d•$131,000 - $188,400•Hybrid

About The Position

Since 1869, Campbell's has connected people through food they love and is proud to be stewards of amazing brands. The Executive Chef of NAFS (North American Food Service) is responsible for leading and building culinary strategy and execution for the business. This role influences and drives culinary excellence in the product development, business development, and innovation process. The Executive Chef will translate culinary trends and consumer insights into innovative prototypes and line extensions, apply culinary inspiration to raise the bar on the quality of existing products, and influence and collaborate with cross-functional partners for the best possible product outcome. They will also build, foster, and leverage client relationships to make NAFS an undisputed partner of choice, collaborate with cross-functional Campbell’s chefs to support culinary innovation, and provide collaboration, inspiration, and leadership with the broker culinary team.

Requirements

HS diploma or equivalent
10+ years of progressive restaurant experience, including 5+ years as an Executive Chef in high-end establishments, with proven success leading culinary teams, driving innovative menu development, and managing full P&L performance.
Must have experience working in restaurant / foodservice operations, leading culinary teams and culinary projects
Highly proficient culinary expertise & collaborative working style
Sales minded professional
Proficient decision making
Project management & prioritization of projects with team
Influence / communicate with functional partners and clients in a way that fosters collaboration
Effective presentations skills & ability to influence
Mentoring/coaching skills
Excellent communication skills- Verbal & Written
Some understanding of scale up/manufacturing challenges

Nice To Haves

Culinary Degree (AOS) from an Accredited Culinary School preferred
Bachelor’s Degree preferred
Minimum of 7 to 10 years CPG or culinary industry related experience required

Responsibilities

Translation of culinary trends and consumer insights into innovative prototypes and line extensions.
Apply culinary inspiration to raise the bar on the quality of our existing products.
Influence and collaborate with cross functional partners for the best possible product outcome (training and education on culinary selling story).
Build, foster, and leverage client relationships to make NAFS an undisputed partner of choice.
Collaborate with cross-functional Campbell’s chefs to support culinary innovation.
Collaboration, inspiration & leadership with our broker culinary team.
Apply and demonstrate hands on culinary expertise across the current product portfolio & future innovation in ensuring great tasting food/beverages for our consumers, striking the right balance between hands on product development and directing the efforts of others.
Identify and tracking of influential foodservice and consumer cooking trends.
Provides formal guidance and supervision to Senior Chef.
Reviews assignments, work plans, and experimental results of others prior to delivery to management.
Serve as the culinary voice for NAFS.
Provide strategic leadership for all culinary functions.
Partnership with R&D partners, external chefs (brokers) & foodservice operators to support innovation for the NAFS portfolio (soups, sauces, entrees, sides, beverages- frozen and shelf stable products).
Drive business strategies and objectives within NAFS.
Strong understanding of competitive landscape and ability to win new business through duplication projects and menu gap analysis.
Knowledge of restaurant operations and can navigate and simplify complex BOH (back of house) systems by providing solutions for foodservice operations.
Understanding of foodservice operators’ headwinds (Cost constraints labor/food) and menu complexity.
Cross-functional collaboration and understanding and willingness to learn more deeply the manufacturing capabilities and constraints to enable successful translation and scale up of Culinary Gold Standards to Culinary Prototypes through fully commercialized products.
Collaboration with internal and external marketing teams.
Develop & mentor direct culinary reports.
Demonstrate culinary thought leadership, business strategy, & creative problem solving.

Benefits

medical
dental
short and long-term disability
AD&D
life insurance (for individual, families, and domestic partners)
matching 401(k) plan
unlimited sick time
paid time off
holiday pay
free access to the fitness center (if in WHQ)
Access to on-site day care (operated by Bright Horizons)
company store
Campbell’s Cares program matches employee donations and/or volunteer activity up to $1,500 annually
variety of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)