Development Kitchen Chef in City of London

Development Chef West London - Full-time £What began in a small kitchen has grown into one of the UK’s fastest-growing food businesses. But we're still building. Our mission is simple: make eating well effortless, without making food boring. That means creating meals people genuinely look forward to eating - proper food, inspired by dishes and flavours from around the world, while delivering the nutrition our customers rely on us for. As we grow, developing brilliant food and making sure that quality survives at scale becomes increasingly important. We're looking for a Development Chef to develop new Simmer meals from concept through to scaled production and launch. You'll spend a lot of time in the kitchen: developing recipes, testing ingredients, tasting, adjusting, solving problems and getting dishes to the point where they're genuinely ready to launch. Creating something brilliant in a development kitchen is one thing. So your involvement won't stop when the recipe leaves the kitchen. You'll own the development of new dishes from early concept through to launch, including: Developing and testing recipes in our development kitchen. Turning food ideas into dishes that work for Simmer and our customers. Building nutrition and protein requirements into the development process. Understanding ingredient and recipe costs and making sensible commercial decisions. Diagnosing changes in flavour, texture, appearance or quality when recipes are scaled. Keeping up with ingredients, cuisines, restaurants and food trends that could make Simmer's food better. You'll work across multiple dishes and stages of development at once, so you'll need to be organised, decisive and comfortable moving at pace. Your exact background is less important than whether you can develop really good food. You might already be a Development Chef or NPD Chef within prepared meals, meal kits, food-to-go or food manufacturing. Or you might have come through professional kitchens before moving into food development. Has hands-on recipe development experience. Experience working with scaled food manufacturing would be a real advantage, but we're open to different routes into the role. What we care about is food judgement, development ability and the drive to keep improving something until it works.