Executive Chef

Job Title: Executive Chef

Company: Unilever Food Solutions

Business Function: Customer Development

Scope: India                                             

Work Location: Mumbai HO

About the Brand:

Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is the €2.5bn+ foodservice division of Unilever. It leads the dynamic Food Service market across its categories and has ambitious growth objectives, marketing a range of professional food and beverage products and services to operators across 22 Multi Country Organizations (MCOs) in 67 countries.  We carry a portfolio of local and international brands-- Knorr Professional, Lady’s Choice, Hellmann’s, and The Vegetarian Butcher.

About the Role:

Responsible for culinary expertise and creating innovative applications of the Unilever Food Solutions product portfolio to support the business plan.

Chef support for developing and executing business plans as part of cross cross-functional team, with the objective of delivering sales targets and profitability management

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and contribute to the growth of focus channels with culinary know-how and expertise via solution selling.
• Translate insights into product ideas and applications related to the country project/brief.
• Assist marketing in developing and evaluating creative concepts and developing applications with quality recipes, according to the project brief.
• Design the training material and run the training for new product training and application training for the team.
• Audit and promote culinary technology practice in the product development area.
• Assist in formulation optimization and fine-tuning for production scale.
• Test developed products in application according to the project brief.
• Conduct evaluation sessions on the developed product with a chef's panel/internal customers. Set standard and golden rules for new product development and apply formulation principles to influence quality, cost, and convenience in products.
• Execute within the relevance of raw material, costs, process, requirement, and shelf life.
• Support and be a presenter in roadshow/events/activities that require a chef demonstration.
• Co-ordinate with internal team from CD, CD Ops, R&D, CD Capability, Marketing, and related functions to ensure smooth and efficient operations to support the business growth plan.
• Implement other activities as directed by the Line Manager.
• Compliance with Unilever Code of Business Principles and Safety Standard.

Job Requirements:

• Culinary expertise and creativity, Passion for growth
• Pro-active, Business orientated, Focused, and Problem solver
• Basic knowledge of R&D, Marketing, and sales preferable
• Good presentation, planning, and organizing skills
• Able to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Academic / Professional qualification 
• Full member of the local Culinary Association
• Basic skills in computer with office software, especially Excel and recipe net.
• Good command of spoken and written English
• 2-3 years of working experience in the kitchen
• Possess knowledge and experience in the food service industry.