Food and Beverage Manager (Full-Time) in London

London | Full-time, fractional or contract considered

Heliix is an established performance-focused food and beverage business and the UK F&B partner of Equinox, operating across Kensington, St James's and Bishopsgate. Our mission is to curate wholefood nutrition that enhances human performance today and extends healthspan for tomorrow. We are evolving Heliix beyond our existing F&B business, developing a premium food and nutrition proposition around exceptional food, performance, longevity and personalisation.

We believe there is an opportunity to do something genuinely different in this space and are looking for an exceptional culinary leader to help us build it. You'll work closely with the founder and our nutrition team across food development, ingredient sourcing, recipe development, production and execution. As the business develops, we expect the role to evolve with it – increasingly focusing on culinary strategy, NPD, systems, standards and building the team around you. The opportunity is ultimately to help shape and lead the culinary direction of Heliix.

Exceptional food

Food comes first. We want to create food that is nutritionally intelligent without ever feeling like 'health food'. Ingredient quality, provenance, seasonality, flavour and execution matter enormously to us. We're therefore looking for someone who has operated at a very high culinary level and understands the discipline and attention to detail required to produce exceptional food consistently. Michelin-starred or equivalent high-end restaurant experience would be highly relevant. However, restaurant experience alone isn't enough. You also need to understand production and how to translate exceptional food into an environment where consistency, repeatability and operational control matter.

You'll play a central role in developing the next generation of Heliix food. Someone capable of taking sophisticated nutritional requirements and turning them into food that remains exceptional, practical and executable. You'll work alongside specialists in performance nutrition and other areas of health and wellness, bringing the culinary depth required to turn thinking into something people actually want to eat. We're also interested in how technology, and particularly AI, can help us build a better food business. You don't need to be technical and we're certainly not looking for a software engineer. The food industry is going to change considerably as these technologies develop.

Experience

• Maintaining quality and consistency as complexity or volume increases

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who genuinely cares about health, fitness, nutrition and human performance. You'll need to be equally comfortable developing the culinary direction of the business and getting into the kitchen to make it happen. The objective is to build the food, systems, standards and team that allow you to move increasingly towards NPD, innovation and culinary leadership.

What we're building next goes considerably further. Our ambition is international and we believe Heliix has the opportunity to become a distinctive food and nutrition brand at the intersection of exceptional food, human performance and longevity. We're looking for someone who wants to help build that with us. We would therefore consider full-time, fractional or an initial contract arrangement for an exceptional candidate. The important thing is finding someone with the ability and appetite to make a meaningful contribution from the outset and potentially grow into a significant long-term leadership role within Heliix.

Please send us your CV together with a short introduction explaining why Heliix interests you and why you think you're the right person to help us build what comes next.