Senior R&D Culinary Manager

1 week ago


Mundelein, United States Kilcoy Global Foods Full time
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionDescription:

The Senior R&D Culinary Manager will be responsible for developing new products and improving products for our customers.


Role and Responsibilities

  • Participate and contribute in cross-functional teams to drive new product innovation to drive revenue
  • Identify gaps in our portfolio through competitive analysis of our categories
  • Comparison shop and perform competitive product analysis
  • Create and execute on trend innovation ideas and formulas for foodservice and retail channels
  • Coordinate multiple concurrent product development projects (raw value-added protein and fully cooked sous vide items) from bench top testing to production commercialization
  • Manage new product development projects and assist in setting specifications to include: sourcing/qualifying ingredients, establishing equipment requirements, determining manufacturing processes for new products
  • Assist operations/production in new product scale ups
  • Performance test developed products based on use case
  • Provide new product specifications to Regulatory, Sales, QA and Purchasing
  • Develop and validate cooking & reheat instructions for retail packaging and applicable foodservice items
  • Process, schedule, produce, inventory and ship product samples (Labeling, FedEx, etc.)
  • Organize ingredient inventory and request necessary ingredients for development projects
  • Manage and execute production sample evaluations and document results
  • Prepare food for in-house evaluations including shelf-life studies
  • Culinary expert for internal and external events (trade shows, sales calls, etc.)
  • Prepare and serve food for customer presentations
  • Responsible for presentation/development in our new R&D center
  • Manage schedule for presentations/development for the new R&D center
  • Provide technical support services to sales team. Overnight travel may be necessary
  • Expert knowledge of industrial sous vide cooking including robust understanding of CCP’s combined with the sensory objective and the ability to program our cooking apparatuses accordingly
  • Know, adhere to and enforce all GMP’s
  • Performs other duties as assigned


Requirements:

Supervisory Responsibilities

  • This position supervises the R&D Chefs

Preferred Qualifications and Education Requirements

  • Culinary Degree required; Concentration in Food Science/R&D
  • 8-10 years’ experience as an R&D Chef
  • Experience with Sous Vide cooked protein is a plus
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Products;




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