Senior Culinary Trainer

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom Sessions Full time

**SENIOR CULINARY TRAINER**
**£40,000 + Bonus**
**London Based with Travel**

**"The most exciting food start up in the UK"**

**Sessions** - The Record Label for Food.

We partner with the most exciting talent in the industry and send our brands on tour to neighbourhoods across the country through our network of over 100 host partners.
- Life never tastes dull at Sessions. _
- We're currently looking for a Senior Culinary Trainer to join the Sessions Family_
- You will be part of the Culinary Training team and be responsible for training our host partner kitchens to execute our Brands. This involved day to day travel to kitchen locations which are predominantly based in the south of England but can be national._
- Alongside this you will be responsible for coordinating and improving the quality of our_
- training and our host operations and ensuring that the culinary trainers know what they_
- should be doing and prioritising work accordingly._
- You will also do development work to help improve our existing brands or develop new ones, working closely with the Head of Culinary Operations._
- The role is designed to be a progression towards management of the overall training team._

**‍️ We are Agile - **We are customer-obsessed and adapt as needed to meet their needs
**We are Ambitious - **We aim to not only discover but create on-trend brands and are excited by the work required to become a tastemaker brand
**We are Fun - **We keep playfulness at the centre of our culture so that we can deliver on the very serious business of keeping food fun
**We are data-driven - **We don't make assumptions based on what has always been done and instead focus on what the data tells us should be done
- Our benefits list got too long and we had to move it to the bottom _

**What will you do?**
- Work 'field based' with frequent travel
- You’ll become an expert in many of our/partner food brands, their stories, menus,
and specifications
- You will onboard and launch our founder brands into the kitchens of our 3rd party 'host' partners
- You’ll provide a continuous improvement approach to improve how we deliver
training and the quality of the results
- You will deliver brand training sessions to the kitchen teams as well as follow up training where needed. You will also audit kitchens against their target KPI’s.
- You’ll work very closely with Account Managers and Business Development Teams
- You’ll measure the capacity and capability of host kitchens.
- Support with creation of COGS, playbooks, par levels and supply chain sourcing
- Ensure food is prepared to the highest standard and in line with brand specifications.
- Manage purchasing, delivery and stock to ensure that all appropriate ingredients are available for both training and launch of brands.
- To understand and comply with statutory health, hygiene, safety, quality standards and more such as COSHH and HACCP ensuring all tasks are carried out in accordance with these standards.
- To support the sessions operations and wider teams where required.
- You’ll provide a continuous improvement approach to improve how we deliver training and the quality of the results
- You’ll be the Senior representative within the Culinary Training team and will coordinate its day to day activities, deciding who attends which trainings and what the team do when they are not delivering training
- You will work with the Head of Culinary Operations to improve our existing brands and processes and produce operational materials
- You will work with new and existing brands to develop menus and menu items

**Requirements**:

- Strong personable skills - ability to build positive working relationships quickly
- 4+ years’ experience in a senior chef role managing a team
- Enjoyment in travelling across the country for work regularly
- Previous experience and confidence in training people
- Experience with multiple food concepts and cuisines
- A role model in delivering food quality and hygiene standards
- Dark kitchen and virtual brand experience preferred
- Experience producing food for delivery platforms such as Deliveroo
- A handle on current food and industry trends
- Commercial acumen
- Creative and innovative thinker
- Knowledge of all health and safety and food safety, preferably to level 3
- Charismatic and energetic with a passion for food
- Expert level of English language
- Right to work in the UK

**BENEFITS**_ - What Sessions can offer you_

**Financial Wellbeing**:
**_ Bonus Scheme - _**All Sessions headquarters employees are given OKRs, understand exactly what is expected of you to reach your 6 month bonus.
**_Pay day on demand -_** Choose a payday that suits you best, with the ability to transfer salary for days already worked whenever you like.
**_Expense card -_** Don't find yourself short whilst waiting for expenses to be paid, the majority of our headquarters staff will be given their own Soldo company card.

**Social, Mental & Physical Wellbeing**
**_

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