The role

The purpose of this role is to lead the  development chef team, create and innovate new meal concepts and flavours to bring to the Youfoodz menu. You will receive detailed briefs that will allow you to combine your creative flair with customer insights, operational feasibility, cost targets and total menu design.

You will...

• Manage, lead and develop the Menu Development  kitchen team 
• Interact and Lead the Menu Development Chefs with tact and diplomacy 
• Be results driven 
• Take direction and relay information to your team
• Problem solving
• Manage teams performance, Recipes, Brief adherence and quality
• Able to multitask - Provide reporting, Tracking and monitoring recipe development and productivity to meet deadlines
• Responsible for the creation of new menu items and products weekly
• Follow a menu brief while adding creativity and wow factor  
• Stay up to date with the latest food trends and ingredient seasonality 
• Create samples for a taste panel including managers & key business leaders 
• Maintain a high standard clean kitchen meeting all health and safety requirements 
• Assist in ongoing revision of current formulations, portions and ingredient swaps 
• Document all recipes and methodologies in the format provided by the business 
• Support QA and technical teams to ensure shelf life and food safety requirements are met 
• Prepare initial cost information for concepts.   
• Be involved in the menu development process end to end and ensure key tasks are complete

What you’ll bring

• Superior communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent analytical and problem solving ability
• Ability to collaborate and work with key stakeholders 
• Approachable, energetic and flexible in approach
• Aptitude for blue sky/big picture thinking
• Attention to detail and version control to document and track your recipes and product details

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

Essential:

• Certificate 3 Commercial Cookery

Desirable

• Certificate 4 Commercial Cookery 
• 5 + years’ experience commercial cookery
• Menu creation experience 
• Head Chef Experience

Experience

Essential:

• NPD Chef, Creative Chef experience
• Recipe Creation and NPD experience  
• Large scale manufacturing experience
• Large scale catering or cooking

What We Offer

• Growing Organisation - now part of the global success story, HelloFresh
• Employee discounts on Youfoodz & HelloFresh products
• Egoless environment, constant learning with room for personal growth
• Growing Organisation - now part of the global success story, HelloFresh

Are you up for the challenge?Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days..