Executive Development Chef

Title: Executive Development Chef

               

Location: Eagle, ID

               

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

               

Lamb Weston is seeking a passionate Executive Development Chef to join our innovation team.

The Executive Development Chef will have direct interaction with customers and will be required to develop and present innovative menu and product solutions. The Executive Chef’s primary responsibilities include - creating a pro-active culinary relationship with customers both internal and external, offering innovative menu solutions to meet their needs, and working directly with a cross-functional team in Innovation, Sales, Consumer Insights and Marketing to represent Lamb Weston in the front line.

In addition, the Executive Development Chef will research and translate food and beverage trends in a compelling and relevant manner to different internal and external customers.

Job Description

• Under supervision, lead proactive culinary product and ideation sales presentations for both internal and external customers by effectively communicating, influencing and interacting with both internal sales, consumer insights, marketing and the customer to accomplish the established goals.

• Demonstrate leadership and proactive attitudes when creating culinary solutions to solve business and market issues. Support customer regarding basic potato product questions related but not limited to product QA, etc.

• Able to translate customer requests to possible LW potato product solutions through knowledge of LW capabilities and engage quickly with the innovation and cross-functional teams to develop crave-worthy marketing stories.

• Proactively partner with product development teams on ideation and development of new products and menu ideas. Then translate those to the customer to drive sales of both new and existing products.

• Monitors and understands culinary trends and effectively translates those into viable product / menu concepts and sales solutions that fit our customer menu and profiles.

• Procure, organize and maintain kitchen inventory to effectively prepare and execute world class on-site culinary presentations for visiting customers.

• Understand concept cost and operational parameters to deliver feasible product solutions adapted to each customer Back of the House needs.

• Supervise global recipes creation and global solutions for assigned projects and products and maintain database of menu ideas. Translate ideas into Paper Ideations that have relevance to trends, customer’s menus and Lamb Weston products.

• Plan, create, and appear in content on social media and website.

• Manage participation of our extended chef’s council.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline preferred (Food Science, Hotel Administration, Hospitality, Culinary Arts) preferred.

• 5+ years of Professional Restaurant experience with college degree OR- 8+ years of professional restaurant experience with certification

• ACF (CEC®) or RCA equivalent certification preferred.

• Ability to manage, lead and coach team members.

• Excellent culinary skills.

• Strong networking and interpersonal skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Analytical and logical problem-solving abilities.

• Sound understanding of basic business principles.

• Ability to collaborate with peers.

• Ability to travel up to 50% to support operating groups and customer needs.

• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time.

• Strong time management skills.

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