- Monday to Friday (7am to 3pm, some flexibility)
- Free meals on duty
- Mileage cover
- Local gym membership
- Contributory pension scheme
- Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes
- Quick access for you and your immediate family to a Digital GP, and wider healthcare benefits
- Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more
- Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
- Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
- Receive cash rewards every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
- Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
- You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families
Key Responsibilities
- To support the Sector leadership team in demonstrating new creative food ideas to our clients – on the counter or in presentation meetings.
- To lead and support development of new food concepts for the sector
- Leading the delivery of food presentations to clients – showing them our new ideas and engaging our clients in a conversation about the future of food in their unit.
- Creating new culinary ideas for these food presentations (e.g., themed recipes, menus)
- Development and implementation of new food offers for the whole business
- Training for culinary teams at all levels of craft skill
- Lead and support other culinary activities that celebrate the food culture of the sector – e.g., designing/supporting internal chef competitions.
- Supporting the mobilisation of new contracts when they join our business
- Supporting unit chef challenges – relief support
- Leading large high-profile hospitality events at our units
- Over the course of a year you should expect you time to be split roughly equally between food presentations to clients, direct support and coaching, and development/execution of new food concepts and ideas
Person Specification
- A real passion for food
- An ability to demonstrate knowledge of food trends and development in a way that is inspiring and motivating for our clients
- Creative food/food service background
- Understanding of purchasing/sourcing products/ingredients
- Experience of developing food concepts and implementation of these concepts
- Experience of working in a fast paced/forward thinking environment
- strong people skill with an ability to communicate effectively and influence
- Ability to build relationships with lots of different types of people
- Ability to direct others to achieve goals
- Knowledge of different food production methods
- Strong project management skills
Essential
- Team player working in a busy environment
- Be able to work on own initiative
- Some travel included
- Full driving license required
- To train Unit Management staff and cooks and deliver great food at unit level
- Work well within the school environment and be able to insipe young people
- To have some flexibility around term time hours
- DBS
- Car essential - mileage covered
Desirable
- To be creative and come up with new ideas for school food
- Be involved with menu planning
- Be able to strive for increased uptake at school level
- Work alongside the management teams and strategic planning
- Liaise with the School client attending client meetings when need be
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