Junior Executive Chef

2 months ago

UK, UK, United Kingdom Taiko Foods Ltd Full time

Junior Executive Pan Asian/ Japanese Chef

Salary:

£50k-£60k

About us:

The Snowfox Group has recently been purchased by Zensho Holdings, the leading food service company in Japan with a market cap of $5.5b and whose aim is to become the worlds largest food company, a position from which we can eradicate hunger and poverty from around the globe. We operate restaurants, factories, and thousands of sushi kiosks and have recently built a successful cut fruit business, Snowfruit. Combining this with the three businesses previously owned by Zensho, AFC, Sushi Circle and Sushi Take, results in annual sales of $2.5b and Ebitda in excess of $140m a year with an ambitious growth trajectory.


Our Purpose:

We Believe in Better Food For Everyone, The Japanese Way…

We continue to capitalise on consumer trends, spearheading category growth by bringing our proposition to more people around the world across more channels, in more locations, on more occasions and in more innovative ways. We are committed to purposeful progress and profit for the benefit of our people, our communities and our planet and we have a clear ESG strategy that delivers progress against nine UN sustainability development goals.


Our Values:

Own it

  • We are accountable and make no excuses.
  • We always look to improve
  • We take the initiative and are courageous and confident

Care about it

  • We do the right thing, avoiding unnecessary shortcuts
  • We act with integrity and respect our communities, people and our planet

Make it Exceptional

  • We build relationships and make people smile
  • We say thank you
  • We’re positive and kind

Win Together

  • We’re open minded an inclusive
  • We communicate with clarity
  • We take time to look out for others and to celebrate the good stuff

Overview of the role:

As a Development Chef, you will play a crucial role in creating commercially viable, creative, and innovative sushi products that drive growth and keep us ahead of our competitors. You’ll be part of the New Product Development (NPD) team, reporting to the NPD Manager.

3 Best Things about the job


  • Work with and learn from a very Experienced Japanese Chef (Previously Executive head chef of Michelin star restaurant)
  • Driving new product development with a direct impact on revenue generation for the company
  • Working office hours


Key Accountabilities:

  • Support the Head Chef in motivating and inspiring the business to achieve higher levels of culinary excellence so we can remain a market leader
  • Review product quality against our standards to ensure we consistently maintain our high standards, especially from a rice quality and sauce tasting perspective.
  • Stay updated on food trends, track restaurant reviews, and forecast emerging trends, attend food exhibitions, shows, and seminars to discover interesting ingredients and trends. Then share inspiration and findings from these visits and analysis with Executive Head Chef and internal stakeholders.
  • Support the Executive Head Chef with proactive and creative development of product profiles whilst introducing new meals/ ingredients.
  • Assist in developing new product recipes to cost targets, then prepare the associated paperwork. Work with Executive Head chef and commercial to refine the concepts and recipe’s.
  • Support the Executive Head Chef with producing samples for customer presentations and high profile lunches. Take the lead on organising these events
  • Learn to use all machines in the factory to understand our capabilities and how this may affect future product development. Bring new food development and production methods ideas to the team which will lead to improvements
  • Participate in production trials on new processes for product development within the factory
  • Support the concept team to exceed customer expectations, participate in brainstorm sessions and tastings.
  • Develop/learn how to balance flavours of Japanese sauce making
  • Understand customer policies and our brand standards.

Key Measures of success:

  • Monitor production to ensure consistent quality standards of our products
  • Being able to translate trends and themes in the market into commercially viable products
  • Take a brief from a customer or via commercial and produce innovative products which set us apart from competition

What you’ll need:

Fully qualified chef with at least 5 years experience as a Restaurant Chef in a Japanese restaurant with strong exposure to Sushi.

1-2 years of NPD manufacturing experience would be a distinct advantage

Excellent interpersonal skills, creativity, and enthusiasm.

Strong computer literacy with experience working with all Microsoft office products

Strong communication skills with daily interaction with Commercial, Procurement, Technical and NPD team

Willingness to travel for work inside and outside of the UK.

What’s in it for you?

  • We’re committed to building inclusive Teams and giving our People the opportunity to grow their careers alongside us.
  • Annual discretionary enhanced bonus upto 10%
  • Group Personal Pension: 4% of basic monthly salary (matched by Snowfox)
  • Group Income Protection Scheme: up to 75% of your basic monthly salary after 26 weeks’ continuous absence from work due to serious injury or illness
  • Private Medical Cash Plan: including dental, GP access, physio therapy, money back on contact lenses and 24/7 Employee Assistance Line
  • 50% off your food every time you dine with us for you and 3 friends.
  • Cycle to work.
  • Reward Platform
  • Value Award Celebration- winner get an opportunity to visit Japan.
  • Opportunity to join our valuable people forum

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