Chef, Culinary Innovation

The Nestle Professional Solutions at Nestle USA leverages its position as the world's largest food and beverage company to bring brands that you enjoy in your home, to other areas of your life such as the workplace, restaurants, hotels, and your neighborhood College or University. Our portfolio of products and solutions includes beloved brands such as Stouffer's, Coffee mate, Nescafe, and Starbucks. With our extensive networks and industry knowledge, we offer unparalleled support and guidance to foodservice operators, ensuring their success in a competitive market. We strive to contribute to a healthier future by providing the finest ingredients and operational knowledge to every type of foodservice operation. The strength of our trusted brands is supported by a team of skilled professionals who are dedicated to deepening their industry experience. Our team of culinary experts and skilled product developers partner closely with foodservice professionals to generate creative, branded food and beverage solutions that address a wide variety of needs. Our employees thrive on opportunities to grow and develop within the food-service industry, ensuring that we are always at the forefront of industry trends and innovations.

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The Culinary Innovation Chef will inspire culinary application for all brands across the Nestle Professional Solutions (NPS) portfolio. Help grow brand equity and share by actively inspiring the various departments within NPS including Marketing, Product Development and Sales. The Chef supports the brand teams' pursuit of insights that enable the team to understand the influence of the applications on the customer and their consumer and create engaging brand experiences and supports culinary leadership in inspiring the brands vision and innovation strategies. The Chef is responsible for strategy and execution of projects related to the brands project development strategy and innovation plans as defined by the various internal stakeholders.

The Culinary Innovation Chef will:

Create

• Work with the various brands to develop their culinary skills and create a culinary driven culture of product development.
• Participate in ideation sessions and offer insightful culinary inspiration.
• Support Sales team with onsite and offsite customer presentations

Educate

• Organize, conduct, and participate in culinary training of internal and external partners

Insights

• Use consumer and marketplace data and trends to support developing menu items for a particular consumer segment.
• Manage brand projects and assignments in a way that demonstrates an understanding of key consumer insights and an ability to activate them in relevant communications and innovation activities.
• Support the brands need to identify and understand what the brand stands for in the hearts and minds of consumers including brand identity, essence, vision, mission and core values to drive relevant communications and innovation.

Innovation & Renovation

• Leverage trend, ingredient and flavor data to produce ideas and applications that support the brands short-term and long-term innovation strategy.
• Work in collaboration with cross-functional and external experts, participate in innovation menu sessions that include creative and practical hour presentations in support of the brands innovation strategy.
• Assist with the development and execution of a menu strategy for a brand

Planning

• Prepare, present and showcase menu items for the brand plan to management, cross-functional partners and external stakeholders.
• Support the culinary team and Manager in implementing a sustainable customer and sales centric brand innovation to drive and/or sustain long-term brand health including equity, awareness and engagement.
• Promote the business at tradeshows and industry events. Collaborate across functions to organize and execute showcases of the company's culinary expertise including demonstrations, tastings, and strategic partnerships"

Required Education & Experience:

• Minimum 5 years' experience in the restaurant industry required
• Culinary degree - 2 yr. preferred (B.A., Culinary Arts or B.S., Food & Nutrition / Food Science), Serve Safe Certification
• Experience across multiple channels of food service preferred. Experience in management (i.e. sous-chef) preferred
• Ability to travel up to 30%
• Experience working with multiple projects within a team environment Organized, self-managing, with strong time management skills Experienced in food purchasing, organization and logistics
• Excellent presentation/ speaking skills and ability to represent the brand throughout the industry and consumer facing mediums
• Strong culinary techniques, flavor delivery and menu creation processes with an understanding of global cuisine influence on modern cooking
• Demonstrate above average problem-solving abilities: many problems are abstract in nature
• Proficient in Excel and Power Point

Requisition ID:335878

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