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🍋 This is how you’ll change the way people eat forever

We are searching for a Junior Recipe Developer to join our ambitious Culinary team in Amsterdam. In this role, you'll create mouthwatering new recipes and enhance existing ones to captivate our customer base. Your responsibilities include creating recipes for various customer preferences while meeting specific cost, nutritional content, and customer satisfaction criteria. You'll be involved in every recipe development stage, from brainstorming ideas to testing and validation. This role requires close collaboration with the Editorial, Menu Planning, and Procurement teams to maintain product quality. Reporting to the Lead Recipe Developer, you will play an integral role in our culinary innovation efforts.

🥑 This is how you’ll make an impact

• Developing new recipes while considering customer preferences, seasonality, variety, nutritional values, ease of cooking, and dietary customs.
• Testing dishes in our kitchen and adjusting recipes as necessary. We receive feedback from our customers on the recipes every week, which you use to improve them.
• Checking all recipes that go into the box; ensuring the ingredient list is filled in correctly, the text is accurate, and the recipe is written simply enough.
• Based on input from the procurement teams, you adjust recipes so we can continue to send a complete meal to the customer in case of delivery issues.
• Approximately once per quarter, you will have an on-call weekend shift to assist Production teams and minimise customer impact of last-minute issues.
• Support on various Culinary projects, ranging from a deep dive into the performance of specific recipe concepts to managing a seasonal offering launch.

 🍉 These are the ingredients you’ll bring to the team

• Excellent command of the English language.
• Maximum 2 years of experience in product development.
• Passion for food, cooking, and quality ingredients.
• Enjoyment of spending time in the kitchen and creating delicious meals.
• Natural ability to develop new recipes and simplify them for customers.
• Always prioritise customer satisfaction.
• Note that you will spend a maximum of three days per week in the kitchen. The remaining days will be spent brainstorming and developing recipes, reviewing existing ones, and collaborating with our procurement and production teams.

🥕 This is our recipe 

• Freedom to initiate, execute and implement your own ideas
• The opportunity to engage and collaborate with our colleagues across the globe
• Learning and development opportunities including a personal development budget
• 24 holidays per year, plus 1 day per additional year of work
• A hybrid work setup with a budget to help set up your home office
• Reimbursement of travel expenses to the office 
• A discount on your weekly HelloFresh and/or Green Chef box
• Our FreshEnergy program including bootcamp, yoga, boxing, Headspace subscription, a collaboration with OpenUp for your mental wellbeing, webinars and other events
• Multiple ways of getting to a work-related appointment, for example by using our company cars or a MyWheels car
• Discount on your ClassPass subscription, and a discount for your gym membership via High Five Fitness Network. 
• Discount on your additional health insurance through Zilveren Kruis 
• Healthy lunches, fruit and snacks in the office 
• Monthly pension scheme 

Please note that we will accept applications for this job till Monday 12th of August at 5pm. 

🌱 Grow your career at HelloFresh 

A career at HelloFresh is an opportunity to make an impact in a world-leading meal-kit company. Through our Learning Never Stops core value, we empower you to take your career development to your highest potential…but we don’t just want to say it, we want to show it too. 

Check out some amazing growth stories here: 

• Joran van der Hel’s journey from driver to Ground Operations Manager
• Marjolein Boukens’  journey from Customer Care Agent to Employee Experience Manager
• Valerie Blank’s journey from Junior Sampling Coordinator to Team Lead of Product Marketing

🍍 Hungry for more?

• Apply with your CV and a strong motivation to join us (In English please)
• If we see a match, you’ll have a video call with one of our recruiters to share more about what you can bring to the team. 
• Next is a technical assessment, in which you prove your recipe development skills and get a feel for the job.
• If the technical assessment is satisfactory, you’ll have an in-person or online interview with the hiring team to get to know you better and discuss your skills and how you will make an impact.