Prep Kitchen Manager - Culinary

Trusted Media Brands•Milwaukee, WI

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Prep Kitchen Manager for Taste of Home manages the overall operations of the prep kitchen and leads culinary assistants in planning, procuring, and preparing food and recipes for Taste of Home and other brands. Reporting to the Executive Director, Culinary, this team leader shares culinary knowledge and skills while preparing recipes to varying degrees of completion in support of culinary producers, recipe editors and testers, and visual production, digital, video, and affiliate teams. The role combines hands-on recipe preparation and grocery management with scheduling, training, mentoring, and developing the prep kitchen team. The manager also supports other types of content across food media products to help build Taste of Home’s culinary authority. The position is office-critical and requires working on site in or around Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Requirements

An accredited culinary arts degree or equivalent food-industry experience.
Prior experience in a leadership role managing people.
Ability to prioritize and organize work, meet deadlines, and attend to details independently and as part of a team.
Effective communication skills and comfort giving and receiving constructive feedback in a collaborative environment.
Experience with content-production and digital-asset-management tools such as Airtable, as well as Microsoft Excel.
Flexibility with job duties and self-motivation to produce high-quality content.
Ability to work collaboratively and motivate a team in a fast-paced environment.
Comfort appearing on camera.
Ability to work on site in or around Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Nice To Haves

Previous test kitchen experience or related cooking experience.

Responsibilities

Manage prep kitchen operations, performance management, and quality control to meet internal customer needs and departmental goals.
Hire, train, mentor, and manage prep kitchen staff, including scheduling and supporting career development.
Lead prep kitchen production and staffing to meet daily preparation needs for content creation.
Interpret recipes and preparation instructions and make decisions about mise en place and fully finished recipes.
Collaborate on digital photography and video content while meeting daily production goals.
Use Airtable for production workflows and the proprietary recipe management system (RMS).
Appear in social media videos for digital and social teams.
Participate in product testing for affiliate and other content.
Work on multiple initiatives simultaneously under the direction of the Executive Director, Culinary.
Manage grocery procurement and perform hands-on recipe preparation.
Create or execute other types of food-media content to help build Taste of Home’s culinary authority.