Application Chef

About Flora Food Group

We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.  

Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.  

 

 

Location: Wageningen, Netherlands

On-site

About the position

The role of application chef at Flora Food Group in Wageningen is all about sharing the love for food.  It’s about showcasing the next generation of food in a wide and inspiring way.

 You will:

• Support delivering top class culinary product demonstrations for a wide audience internal and external customers. 
• Support delivering top class product activation, video and photography. 
• Drive culinary input into the development process and identify strengths and areas of improvements for our products (for home chefs and professionals)
• Designing channel and customer specific recipe solutions. 
• Demonstrate product benefits  
• Train internal & external customers  
• Execute, standardize and optimize our test methods. 
  
  

So what does it take to be successful in this role?  

You are a qualified chef with a solid educational background and a minimum of five years of experience working in professional kitchens. You have a strong understanding of how commercial restaurants operate and stay up to date with key food trends, technologies, and information relevant to your area of expertise. You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to clearly convey ideas to a wide audience and work effectively within cross-functional teams. You are adaptable, able to cope with change, and demonstrate creative thinking by developing innovative culinary recipes that effectively showcase product benefits. With strong organizational and prioritization skills, you can plan and self-manage efficiently. You are also flexible and mobile, capable of short-term travel and performing under challenging circumstances, including cooking in unfamiliar kitchens abroad. You have strong English language skills and a solid understanding of the foodservice and retail industry, allowing you to anticipate and manage the impact of market trends. Additionally, you may bring knowledge of food science, facilitation or training experience, project or activation experience, and an understanding of the customer and competitor landscape, all of which are considered valuable assets.

What’s Next? 

If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now! The deadline to apply is November 21st. 

 

We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.  

Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.  

No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.