Job Summary
Delicious Food and Meaningful Careers
At the heart of our company is a deep passion for creating fresh, healthy, and artisan-quality food that brings people together. We honor the craft of artisan cooking using scratch-made stocks, hand-chopped herbs, and only the highest-quality ingredients complemented by cutting-edge technology. This allows us to deliver consistently safe, exceptional products on a large scale.
But it?s not just about the food. Our culture is built on principles that shape how we grow, both as individuals and as a team. One of our core values, Honoring Development, guides us to actively seek out, celebrate, and nurture one another?s talents, strengths, and interests. By fostering each other?s growth, we strengthen our relationships and capabilities, driving both personal and professional success.
We also believe in Honoring Each Other. We surround ourselves with passionate people who share our love for great food. Through mutual respect and collaboration, we create an environment where employees are empowered to thrive, building trusting, and rewarding relationships with our clients, partners, and one another.
If you're looking for a place where your skills, passion, and ideas can flourish, we invite you to explore the opportunities available within our dynamic and supportive team.
Job Summary
Designs, develops, maintains, and expands an innovative culinary repertoire. Acts as an ambassador to “Honoring Food”.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Creates and delivers factory-friendly innovation that drives top & bottom line growth.
- Develops new products following product-brief guidelines, including specific customer requirements, costs, raw materials, production limitations, labor costs, etc.
- Collaborates with procurement, sales, process and operation teams to develop a quality products.
- Works with sales team to introduce products or ideation to multiple sales channels, including Food Service, National Accounts and Retail channels.
- Supports marketing and sales support efforts with creative input.
- Develops appropriate customer relationships and touchpoints with customer teams.
- Builds strong relationships internally with stakeholders including: Sales/Process/Marketing/Production/Procurement/Finance/Quality Assurance/Regulatory.
- Maintains accurate documentation on ideation/recipes.
- Supports culture of innovation.
Required Skills
- Associate's degree, or equivalent experience required.
- Certification in Culinary Arts or Food Science required.
- Requires three - five years in Product Development.
- On-the-job training of 3-6 months.
- Must be proficient with MS Office programs, specifically Excel and Outlook.
Responsibility
- Works under general supervision. Makes decisions within clearly prescribed areas referring matters that fall outside that area to others.
- Builds consensus across functional areas.
- Advises customers on proper use of company products.
- Position is directly responsible for generating revenue within product line or territory.
- Ineffective actions could result in significant loss of time, resources and/or could have moderate impact on the organization’s public image. Decisions or actions have a significant impact on the organization. Errors are difficult to detect and may be difficult and/or costly to correct. Decisions may have a significant impact on resources and organizational effectiveness; funding, productivity, service, quality, security of assets or external relationships may be adversely affected.
Supervisory Responsibility
- Cross-trains other employees and answers questions from co-workers, but is not responsible for performance management.
Working Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Development Chef encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Physical Demands/Efforts
- Work requires occasional physical exertion including some lifting of objects weighing up to 40 pounds.
- Willing and able to stand for long periods of time.
Mental & Visual Demands
- Work performed by this position requires considerable mental concentration to effectively execute complex tasks.
- Work requires continuous visual effort for extended periods of time.
Work Environment and Hazards
- Employee works in a manufacturing setting with frequent exposure to heat/cold, dust, or other factors that may require protective equipment and still pose a hazard.
- This position has regular exposure to hazards that could result in significate injury and lengthy loss of time at work.
- 10-15% travel is required for this position. Travel may be out-of-state and occasionally require overnight stays.
Americans with Disabilities Act
Kettle Cuisine complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state disability laws. This means we will not discriminate against qualified individuals with a disability in any phase of the employment relationship including application for employment, hiring, promotions and/or advancement opportunities, termination, compensation, training and any other conditions or privileges of employment.
Core Values
Kettle Cuisine takes the utmost pride in its people, products and reputation. Each employee is expected to understand and live our Core Values every day.
Honor Food
We create and produce the best tasting, safest, all natural recipes that strive for perfection in every batch, from bench to kettle
Honor Each Other
We seek to develop trusting, respectful and mutually rewarding relationships with all our team members and business partners
Honor Development
We recognize and nurture each other?s talents, strengths and interests in order to further strengthen and grow our team
Honor Innovation
We continually strive for creative and sustainable ways to achieve excellence
Pay Range for Culinary Developer
The Culinary Developer base pay range
$50,000 - 65,000 USD/annually.
The listed salary range represents Kettle Cuisine?s good faith estimate for this position and represents the minimum and maximum for
new hire salaries for the Lynn, MA location only. Ranges will be reviewed on a regular basis. An employee?s
rate of pay within the range is determined by their qualifications, relevant experience, and demonstrated performance over time.
In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members
as a part of any final offer. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth.
The Culinary Developer position is eligible for our comprehensive benefits package and is eligible for the annual discretionary
bonus program up to 10%. Kettle Cuisine and all its legal entities comply with all federal, state,
and local minimum wage laws.
