Junior Development Chef

Absolute
Taste are looking for an experienced Junior
Development Chef with Food Service/Hospitality experience.

You will
be someone who is self-motivated and focused on customer. You will demonstrate
initiative and ownership. Enjoy working collaboratively with colleagues. You
will be flexible and adaptable to new challenges and change.

The
role of Junior Development Chef
includes:

• Working
  with our NPD Head Chef to create new, seasonal menu propositions for our travel clients, considering production,
  regeneration of the food and shelf life restrictions
• Ensure all recipes can be produced on a medium to
  large-scale volume with keeping consistency
• Optimising ingredients and procedures to minimize
  human inaccuracies
• Work with local suppliers to ensure the sourcing of
  fresh ingredients for the business
• Supporting with typing up of recipes and costings
  where required
• Monitor trends and develop recipes in accordance
  with customer demands and response
• Maintaining the ongoing development of new and
  existing quality products – working closely with existing and new customers
• Support with taking product from concept to launch
  with in the operation’s current capabilities
• Basic understanding of food cost, knowledge of high
  cost ingredients versus lower costs
• Work closely with production teams across
  capabilities – taking new products into production as well as assist on
  existing products – review process and assist with updating process and or
  problem solving
• Work closely with Procurement, Technical team &
  commercial team/ account managers
• Conduct Shelf life testing
• Sample making, as well as maintain excellent
  standards at all times in NPD kitchen, you will also be involved in collection
  of ingredients and day-to-day housekeeping.
• Define, implement, and monitor process to ensure
  compliance to all health and regulation requirements
• Managing and updating knowledge management systems
  in line with the quality standards and protocols
• Customer facing – from product presentations to
  cooking and presenting lunches/ dinners for clients – a natural good host
  making a mean cup of tea!

What are
we looking for?

• Min 1 years’ experience as a chef
• Work in fast pace environment with short lead times
• Ability to work from very specific briefs
• Must be a passionate foodie and have outstanding
  food knowledge and ability to demonstrate natural flair with a good pallet –
  basically you must love food and cooking!
• Have the ability to bring whole concepts together
  as well as working on silo products
• Ability to quickly learn the capabilities of the
  current operation and work alongside the capabilities when developing products
  for our demanding customers
• Must have an eye for detail and with good
  organization skills
• Good all-round knowledge of cuisines from around
  the world
• Good all-round knowledge of various cooking
  techniques and production processes
• Up to date with latest food trends and innovative
  food orientated mindset
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work on own projects as well as part of
  a team on larger projects
• Problem solving, think on feet
• Computer literate with a working knowledge of
  Microsoft excel, PowerPoint and word.

The above list of duties for the Junior Development Chef are
non-exhaustive, and this role may be required to perform additional tasks as
necessary to meet the needs of the department and the Company.