Culinair Chef / Food Innovation / Recipe Design

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Food organisation, based in Gelderland Netherlands.

The Company

One of the biggest food Multinationals

Role Description

This role will combine chefmanship and technologist with focus on formulation. It is important that the position will be filled in by a person who is highly passionate in creating delicious dishes and at the same time with appreciation for the industrial recipe creation.

Responsibilities

• To co-develop product brief with MCO chef & CTI which will be used as the quality target for the development of the product
• To create new formulation according to the product brief via benchmarking existing recipes, adaptation of core formulation design or translating recipe from scratch
• To update existing formulation in case of rejuvenation according to the improvements set/agreed in the brief
• To use in recipe creation & update, basic technological requirements of the sourcing unit of implementation such as water activity, fill weight, packaging, etc.
• To ensure technical claims are delivered in the recipe design, i.e. free from nutritional, functionality claims, etc.
• To do recipe design in digital system such as PLM with accuracy and according to defined responsibility in the project
• To contribute to core formulation design to be used as a guide in recipe creation globally
• To implement recipe approval process and lead the session with business partners
• To also implement approved formulation in the sourcing unit
• To be able to conduct basic analytical tests such as pH, water activity, bulk density including technical calculations on unit conversions that will help on ensuring claims are delivered
• To drive passion for food within the team following the UFS purpose leading basic culinary training with the team and sharing kitchen insights that will be useful for design
• To help coach the team in formulation development activity
• To maintain awareness of competitor and supplier position in area of expertise.
• To support with technical information in case of need to protect technology/formulation.
• To ensure the compliance to the Code of Business Principles and all SHE and QA policies, including the support of product claims, risk management and environmental awareness & legislation.

Requirements

• University degree (Science or Engineering or Culinary)
• Minimum of 3-5 years relevant work experience in food industry as a chef /cook or comparable work experience to translate culinary briefings into industrial recipes , dry & pasty technology as an advantage
• With knowledge in dry savoury ingredients
• Able to operate microsoft programs
• Effective communication & presentation

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Vincent van Straten.