Head Of Culinary Innovation

Join our team!

About Hickory:

As an award-winning Scottish business, Hickory has a reputation for delivering bold culinary cutting-edge food and drink experiences in beautiful venues, with a focus on innovative and invigorating menus and sensational and stylish events.

Working for Hickory, you’ll be joining an established team with a focus on exemplary standards in everything we do. We’re passionate about training, learning, and developing our future stars, innovation and leadership from within. We aim to promote a culture of respect throughout the food, drink and events industry and to ensure 5-star service, and product quality is delivered to our customers at every touch point.

What you'll be doing...

Are you a creative and ideas-driven individual who is commercially focused ?

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where creativity meets strategy? Look no further!

With the support of our Director of Operations & Planning, we’re seeking a Head of Culinary Innovation to join our team and make a significant impact to lead on the development and implementation of concepts and menus for new ventures across our varied portfolio.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

• Menu Development - Collaborate with the culinary team and purchasing to ensure supply chain compliance.
• Client Relations - Monitor your own performance, contribute to personal objectives, and align with team goals.
• Costing - All bespoke menu costings and updating of costings as required. Leading on all new menu writing and costings for seasonal menus.
• Bridging the Gap - liaising with Planning / Sales and Marketing. Sitting within planning and assisting in the smooth planning and operations between the departments. And liaising with Marketing to ensure food content is captured.
• Tasting delivery and planning - Strategize how to improve and enhance the client’s tasting journey.

Working Pattern:

40 hours a week, 5 days out of 7

What can you bring?

We are a friendly, decent bunch and we respect our people, places and planet. We want someone who has a real drive and enthusiasm for their job, as well as for their colleagues and the company. We always put the customer at the heart of our decisions, and never accept anything less than five-star standards.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Culinary Experience – recent experience of a similar role
• Self-Motivated and Creative: Demonstrates proactivity and leadership in a results-driven environment.
• Menu Development: expertise in developing creative and innovative menus tailed to client preferences

What’s in it for you:

We know that to attract a top team we must look after our own, so we’ve created an enhanced and flexible benefits package to make working for us even sweeter.

Support Your Way of Life:

• 28 days annual leave (including 4 statutory bank holidays)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• Market leading Pension and Life Assurance scheme
• A great wellbeing strategy with Wellness & Health Assessments, Critical Illness and a leading Employee Assistance Programme

Learning & Development:

• Opportunities for career progression while developing a close-knit community
• Personal development and training opportunities

Why it’s great to work for us...

Dependably Different. Guests adore something a bit different. Bold and exciting food and drink, inventive presentation, and impeccable service, designed to elevate the whole experience. And with a decade of investment in our teams, tech and quality processes, clients can depend on Hickory.

As an award-winning Scottish business, Hickory has a reputation for delivering leading-edge food and drink experiences in beautiful venues across Scotland and beyond, with a focus on innovative and invigorating menus using honest, seasonal, and local ingredients that pack a punch.

Along with our purpose of enriching lives everywhere, every day, we’re committed to an inclusive culture and want our people to feel appreciated, supported, and fulfilled.

Hickory Company Values

• Bold - We make creative choices that inspire innovative opportunities for our clients, our teams and the industry. We own our choices, and they make us stand out from the crowd.
• Genuine - We operate with decency; we are true to our word and build authentic relationships and experiences.
• Respect - We treat others how we’d like to be treated ourselves. We respect our people, places and planet, and if we say we’ll do it, we deliver it, exactly.
• Partnerships - We take time to nurture relationships, collaborating in the most creative ways to find effective methods of delivering success.
• Excellence - We go the extra mile to deliver on our commitment to quality work. Our training and development is second to none thanks to our all-encompassing quality system.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £35,000.00-£45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Weekend availability

Work Location: In person