Sr Chef, R&D
About The Position
Since 1869, Campbell's has connected people through food they love and is proud to be stewards of amazing brands. This role offers the opportunity to make a difference every day, with support for a rewarding career, opportunities to grow, innovate, and inspire. The Senior Chef of NAFS (North American Food Service) is responsible for assisting the Executive Chef of NAFS to help lead and build culinary strategy and execution for the business. This role will drive culinary excellence and increase culinary credibility to achieve new business development through translation of culinary trends and operator insights, leveraging the current portfolio for new opportunities, providing culinary inspiration, influencing cross-functional partners, and building client relationships.
Requirements
- HS diploma or equivalent
- Minimum of 6 CPG or culinary industry related experience required
- Highly proficient culinary expertise & collaborative working style
- Sales minded professional / business acumen
- Proficient decision making
- Ability to influence and effectively communicate with functional partners and clients to foster collaboration
- Effective presentation skills & ability to influence
- Excellent communication skills- verbal, written and presentational
- Basic understanding of scale up/manufacturing challenges
- Effective & collaborative leadership skills
- Strategic thinking / ability to translate complex business challenges into tangible solutions
- Recipe / menu development
Nice To Haves
- Culinary Degree (AOS) from an Accredited Culinary School
- Experience successfully leading kitchens, teams, projects, and high profile culinary events/catering
- Real life restaurant/food service operation experience
- Serve Safe Certified
Responsibilities
- Assist the Executive Chef of NAFS to lead and build culinary strategy and execution for the business.
- Drive culinary excellence and increase culinary credibility to achieve new business development.
- Translate culinary trends and operator insights to win new customers.
- Leverage current portfolio to drive new opportunities that increase sales.
- Provide culinary inspiration to raise the bar on the quality of existing culinary capabilities/showcases.
- Influence and collaborate with cross-functional partners (internal and external) for the best possible product outcome (training and education on culinary / Real Food).
- Build, foster, and leverage client relationships to make NAFS the undisputed partner of choice.
- Demonstrate culinary thought leadership, business strategy & creative problem solving.
- Apply knowledge of culinary trends towards business objectives.
- Navigate and simplify complex BOH (back of house) systems by providing/selling CSC solutions and brands.
- Partner with R&D and customers to make recipes showcasing the NAFS portfolio of products.
- Collaborate cross-functionally and understand manufacturing capabilities and constraints to enable successful translation and scale up of culinary gold standards.
- Attend product inspections to provide culinary perspectives and expertise.
- Project management & prioritization of projects with staff.
- Collaborate, plan and execute product ideations and presentations with cross-functional partners.
- Build strong and sustainable relationships with sales/marketing team members.
- Build strong and sustainable relationships with key customers.
- Utilize understanding of competitive landscape to win new business through duplication projects and menu gap analysis.
- Apply knowledge of restaurant financials and business acumen (P&L’s, menu engineering, food cost).
- Attend and be the culinary lead at Industry Conferences targeted to chains.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Life insurance (for individual, families, and domestic partners)
- Matching 401(k) plan with immediate vesting
- 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) (if in WHQ)
- Access to company store (if in WHQ)
- Campbell’s Cares program (matches employee donations and/or volunteer activity up to $1,500 annually)
- Variety of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
High school or GED
