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Development Chef

3 months ago

Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom Samworth Brothers Full time

About The Role

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and Take your next step with Samworth Brothers become part of our dynamic familyAt Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations: -

  • Enhanced pension scheme
  • Private health scheme
  • Employee discount scheme
  • Experience annual pay reviews
  • Profit related pay
  • Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

The OpportunityIn this role you will be working within the New Product Development Team to deliver high quality concepts, products, recipes, and to ensure delivery of all projects in a timely manner ensuring concept to launch process is followed. Interpret & Pre-empt customer briefs to ensure new and relevant products are being proposed to our customers and brands. Maintain up to date and relevant knowledge of products within the market and capturing trends and quality improvements to enable Samworth Brothers savoury pastry to stay ahead of the competition.

  • Create new products from initial concept through to bakery trial phase.
  • Attend product submissions, providing customers with new / amended product samples along with relevant paperwork, adhering to brand standards
  • Work with and support the Sales and Category team ensuring NPD requirements meet customer and market needs at all times
  • Act as a key point of contact for your relevant customer(s), ensuring you respond to any communication in a timely manner
  • Present internal concept ideas to the senior management team and at internal feasibility to ensure visibility of all new products at the bakery
  • Present internal concept ideas to the senior management team and at internal feasibility to ensure visibility of all new products at the bakery
  • Preparation of recipes on internal recipe management system following and completing all relevant actions
  • Accurately maintain NPD recipe files and follow Samworth Brothers concept to launch process on all development projects
  • Identify new product opportunities, through strong understanding of capabilities and being fully up to date of marketplace trends within competitive retailers & other outlets

The Ideal CandidateWe believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience: -

  • Experience as a chef, or product technologist within chilled food manufacturing
  • Able to demonstrate natural flair and passion for food and knowledge of a variety of cuisines.
  • Able to demonstrate practical cooking demonstrations to a high level.
  • Demonstrate a natural ability to be creative and innovative in terms of recipes, marketing ideas and packaging solutions.
  • Consumer and customer focus with ability to link trends to consumer and occasion
  • Be able to present new products and improvements of existing products.
  • Computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
  • Full Driving Licence required
  • Proactive team player, able to perform under pressure and within tight timeframes
  • Have a flexible approach to work and working hours, in order to meet the needs of the business.

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role. Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member - you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us

About Us

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK's best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.