Culinary Development Chef - Vineland, NJ

Culinary Development Chef - Vineland, NJ

Position Summary: 

• Provide innovative, state of the art, on-trend and flawlessly executed Culinary solutions to support sales growth across all categories of products around the globe
• Embraces a world-class mentality with high quality standards and is able to differentiate basic from high end with industry relevance.  Easily qualifies product examples to intended audience
• Act as central translation point between idea and execution
• Engage foodservice Sales and Marketing leaders to leverage trends and insights that inspire creative, new menu innovations and ideas
• Leverage insights and trends to develop consumer-focused gold standard receipts and new product translations
• Help advance ADM’s reputation as a leading, credible, trusted culinary advisor

Job Responsibilities:

• Leads and manages ideation and development of new concepts that fit customer parameters or, in the absence of known parameters, highlights the portfolio, goals and strengths of the organization
• Easily qualifies product examples to intended audience 
• Determines appropriate products for customer demonstration with a strong emphasis on customer capabilities, initiatives and focuses
• Set high standards for product quality and can qualify relevance to customer, with a strong Culinary influence
• Maintains trend awareness and continually seizes opportunities for exposure to new ingredients, products, cuisines and preparation methods
• Ensures alignment of products demonstrated to customer expectations and business goals within time and resource constraints
• Interfaces with ACM’s, customers, Technical teams and marketing

Job Requirements:

• Food Science or Culinary Arts degree with Culinary development experience.  Experience in foodservice segments, i.e. foodservice national accounts, menu development, manufacturing experience a plus.
• Capable of creating and ideating gold standard Culinary prototypes
• Strong formulation skills- The individual is comfortable with basic calculations, ratio scaling, fraction proportioning, percentage calculations, etc.
• Strong Food Science Skills – The individual is comfortable with basic food science principles, including knowledge of food chemistry and the principles of food processing
• Computer Skills – The individual is comfortable with computer usage, internet access, Microsoft WORD, EXCEL and Email ( or similar program) usage, along with ability to create, edit, manipulate WORD and EXCEL files as well as basic presentation development using PowerPoint or other

Employees in this position working at this location are [or may be] exposed to various potential chemical and food allergens due to the nature of our business and the requirements of the job.  If there is any reason such exposure would interfere with your ability to perform this role or work at the location, please notify the hiring manager. 

Excited about this role but don’t think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check. 

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