Executive Development Chef
About The Position
Lamb Weston is seeking a passionate Executive Development Chef to join our innovation team. The Executive Development Chef will have direct interaction with customers and will be required to develop and present innovative menu and product solutions. The Executive Chef's primary responsibilities include - creating a pro-active culinary relationship with customers both internal and external, offering innovative menu solutions to meet their needs, and working directly with a cross-functional team in Innovation, Sales, Consumer Insights and Marketing to represent Lamb Weston in the front line. In addition, the Executive Development Chef will research and translate food and beverage trends in a compelling and relevant manner to different internal and external customers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of Professional Restaurant experience with college degree OR- 8+ years of professional restaurant experience with certification
- Excellent culinary skills.
- Strong networking and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Analytical and logical problem-solving abilities.
- Sound understanding of basic business principles.
- Ability to collaborate with peers.
- Ability to travel up to 50% to support operating groups and customer needs.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at one time.
- Strong time management skills.
- Strong presentation skills to different stakeholders.
- Proficient knowledge of Microsoft software such as PowerPoint, Excel, Word etc.
- Strong creative ability.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in related discipline preferred (Food Science, Hotel Administration, Hospitality, Culinary Arts) preferred.
- ACF (CEC) or RCA equivalent certification preferred.
- Ability to manage, lead and coach team members.
Responsibilities
- Lead proactive culinary product and ideation sales presentations for both internal and external customers by effectively communicating, influencing and interacting with both internal sales, consumer insights, marketing and the customer to accomplish the established goals.
- Demonstrate leadership and proactive attitudes when creating culinary solutions to solve business and market issues. Support customer regarding basic potato product questions related but not limited to product QA, etc.
- Able to translate customer requests to possible LW potato product solutions through knowledge of LW capabilities and engage quickly with the innovation and cross-functional teams to develop crave-worthy marketing stories.
- Proactively partner with product development teams on ideation and development of new products and menu ideas. Then translate those to the customer to drive sales of both new and existing products.
- Monitors and understands culinary trends and effectively translates those into viable product / menu concepts and sales solutions that fit our customer menu and profiles.
- Procure, organize and maintain kitchen inventory to effectively prepare and execute world class on-site culinary presentations for visiting customers.
- Understand concept cost and operational parameters to deliver feasible product solutions adapted to each customer Back of the House needs.
- Supervise global recipes creation and global solutions for assigned projects and products and maintain database of menu ideas. Translate ideas into Paper Ideations that have relevance to trends, customer's menus and Lamb Weston products.
- Plan, create, and appear in content on social media and website.
- Manage participation of our extended chef's council.
Benefits
- Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
- Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
- Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
- Paid Time Off
- Financial Wellness - Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
- Family-Friendly Employee events
- Employee Assistance Program services - mental health and other concierge type services
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Industry
Food Manufacturing
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
