Culinary Innovation Lead - Food & Beverage

Role: Culinary Innovation Lead

Industry : Food & Beverages

Location: Gurgaon

Years of experience : 8-13 years

Job Responsibilities:

Develop new products for launch:

- Understand need gaps basis market research, market feedback, business requirements, competition moves, global mandates & consumer feedback

- Facilitate rigorous testing and research on new products

Build a strong innovation pipeline:

- Drive menu vision of the brand to meet set business goals over short and long term

- Adapt successful products from global markets.

Support Projects:

- Liaisoning with global teams to ensure adherence of brand standards.

- Replication of ingredients for supply contingency and competitiveness

- Working with cross functional teams - SCM, QA and Restaurant Operations on projects

- Understanding of equipment and their operating procedures. Facilitate testing of new equipment and oversee development of new smallware to meet new product requirements

Ideal Candidate will be:

- A chef with 10-15 years experience in handling kitchen operations

- Sound understanding of product innovation and new product development preferably in QSR, Aviation Catering and Casual Dinning / Fast Causal category

- Having a degree in hotel management

- Knowledge of Kitchen Equipment and Food Processes.

- Should be in a managerial position currently handling direct reportees