Junior Development Chef

Role title: Junior Development Chef
Salary: Competitive
Location: Laforey Road, Grimsby
About us:
We are a company that takes pride in our people as it is our people who are at the centre of everything that we do.
We have multi-category expertise with a focus on quality and innovation. We deliver what customers need and consumers want with expert taste and growth mindset.
Our business began with meat, and we've developed and extend a market-leading expertise within Seafood, with unmatched quality globally. We’re always investing in new technology to deliver more value, efficiency and consumer-led innovative solutions.
What we are looking for:
We are looking for a professional and experienced Junior Development Chef to join our growing NPD team. As a Junior Development Chef, you will work alongside the development chefs to maintain a successful hit rate within the selected retailers as well as keeping on top of culinary food trends.
As a Junior Development Chef some of the responsibilities will be to:
* Managing effective internal working relationships across key functions to support the development process activity.
* Supporting the team to effectively deliver development activity to the highest standard
* Supporting hospitality for customer and high-profile visits.
* Presenting products to internal and external customers whilst demonstrating culinary knowledge, expertise, passion and flair – converting feedback into appropriate action.
* Translating food trends into relevant and commercially viable product development.
* Supporting the development kitchen facility to operate to a high standard.
* Organise current factory product to go out to customers with the assistance from NPD team.
* To be able to communicate with wider teams when needed and transfer information.
* To order, organise and collect ingredients efficiently from a multi-site workplace.
Required experience/expertise to succeed as a Junior Development Chef will include:
* To have worked within food at some point, preferably chef de partie minimum.
* To understand the pressure of kitchens and to be able to communicate well.
* Can quickly adapt to change & manage multiple tasks.
* A full driving licence.
* Willing to travel.
What you get in return:
* Great package with competitive holiday allowance
* Life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary
* Opportunities for development and internal promotion
* Share Save scheme
* Free car parking on site
* Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
About us:
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