Key responsibilities
Proactively create new and innovative concept ideas based on Kerry Technologies (stocks, fermentation, flavours, dairy tools, positive nutritional tools, marinades, coatings, etc.), customer needs and innovation driven by market insight
Take direction from the marketing teams in terms of trends and take direction from commercial leads to ensure you are working on opportunities that will grow our business. Ensure a clear concept to development process is in place and monitored with the Technologists to ensure consistency and attention to detail.
Implement strict positive release process across projects to bring consistency and high standards.
Prepare and execute creative product presentations for customers demonstrating a sound understanding of the Kerry’s global technology capability, manufacturing capabilities aligned to customer needs, ensuring that these concepts are aligned with the customer’s commercial reality.
Bring chef and food insight into the business driven by a love of food and how good food is made.
Maintain awareness of competitors, the market and consumer trends.
Build relationships across the Global Kerry Craft Collective.
Build peer to peer relationships at target customer retailer and connected manufacturers and use these relationships to drive value for the customer and Kerry.
Ensure day-to-day maintenance, general good housekeeping practices of the laboratories, equipment, presentation & customer suites. Maintain health and safety standards.
Work closely with Kerry technologists to execute against customer briefs, using market and culinary knowledge.
Qualifications and skills
Further education in a culinary, food or chef environment
Experience working as a Chef, with hands-on experience
Ability to prepare and present a broad range of technology building blocks in final application as a food concept
Good communication and presentation skills
Innovative yet practical with a flair for creating food and challenging why we do what we do
The ability to deliver against a brief in time
A high level of attention to detail and the highest quality standards
Good kitchen & laboratory practices
Good computer skills
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work alone or within a multi-functional team
A love of preparing and evaluating food
An inquisitive and enquiring mind
