We are hiring a Recipe Developer and Tester for the Culinary team at HelloFresh. 

In this role, you will focus on testing delicious, healthy recipes with the best ingredients. This is an essential part of the HelloFresh recipe development process - reviewing, adjusting and re-cooking HelloFresh recipes before they are sent to the menu. Alongside your testing responsibilities, you will also have the opportunity to re-develop existing recipes in order to improve them further, with the potential to progress into development of new recipes alongside recipe testing and re-development responsibilities. 

You will support the recipe development process by planning, tracking and managing your workload through various Culinary tools. 

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to have experience in testing/cooking/writing delicious recipes that appeal to a wide variety of customers. An understanding of the need to hit budgetary targets is essential along with the ability to adjust recipes according to changing business circumstances. You will also need to be comfortable using data and be willing to learn in order to solve challenges. You will need to be highly organised, self motivated, have great problem solving skills and a keen eye for detail. 

What you will be doing:

• Co-managing the HelloFresh development kitchen - adhering to FSA standards, keeping the kitchen stocked up with all our ingredients, weekly clean down and stock take, and generally maintain an orderly and food safe kitchen.
• Cross testing our recipes after they’ve been developed to ensure they can be realistically achieved by our customers (progressing to re-development of existing recipes and development of new recipes alongside testing responsibilities in due course)
• Managing stocks of ingredients for recipe development in the HelloFresh development kitchen for the whole team
• Maintaining the cleanliness and organisation of the kitchen and the ingredients used in recipe development
• Meet weekly team and recipe deadlines, ensuring accuracy throughout
• Checking and editing recipes to ensure all ordering data and instructions are correct, adhering to our style guide and ensuring they are easy to understand from a customer perspective
• Editing recipes according to internal feedback
• Responding to customer feedback on a weekly basis. Learning from feedback and reworking recipes to make sure customer satisfaction is guaranteed
• Brainstorming recipe ideas and working with other team members to ensure that all recipes created are of the highest calibre and meet customer demands
• Providing and accepting constructive feedback and feedback from the team to ensure that only excellent recipes and recipes that would appeal to HelloFresh customer proceed to being used in HelloFresh boxes
• Contributing to the continual improvement of Culinary processes
• Participating in tastings of new or improved ingredients when required

Skills and Experience:

• Graduate or equivalent, with relevant food / food science qualification
• Proven ability in creating and/or testing recipes (industry experience)
• Great organisational skills: ability to manage priorities simultaneously and meet time-sensitive deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proactive and able to work in an agile manner
• Excellent attention to detail
• Solid problem-solving skill: able to suggest new solutions to existing problems
• Teamwork: proven ability to work effectively within a team and across teams 
• A passion for food and a creative mindset
• Confident in offering constructive criticism to other members of the team in group recipe discussions
• Demonstrable knowledge of new and innovative ingredients and where food comes from
• Good to have: specialised cuisine knowledge

What you will get in return:

• 70% off HelloFresh or Green Chef boxes
• Company pension scheme
• Gym membership
• Bupa private medical insurance (including dental & family cover options)
• Free professional development and coaching memberships
• Mental health first aiders and an employee assistance programme
• Working from home equipment budget
• Dog friendly office! 
• If in the office, enjoy a free breakfast every day
• Eye care scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Group Life Assurance

Location: The HelloFresh Farm, 60 Worship Street, EC2A 2EZ, London