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Product Development Chef - Mississauga, Canada - Scarlett House Food Group Inc.

Scarlett House Food Group Inc.

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Mississauga, Canada

1 month ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Position Overview

As a Product Development Chef with Scarlett House Food Group, you will be key in creating new and exciting food products for a variety of market segments including airline catering, retail, and healthcare.

You will be required to continuously research new food trends, products in the marketplace, creating new recipe concepts including:

Conducting testing and sampling for new and current products.

Collaborating with our production teams to develop and engineer fresh / frozen / retherm recipe concepts.

Work closely with our food costing analysts and Q/A teams.

You will also work closely with our sales teams and collaborate on providing creative and unique recipe concepts for proposals as requested.

Duties and Responsibilities

Innovates, develops, and proposes new, trenddriven menu items.
Continually research new products, methods, and trends; attend industry events and trade shows.
Assists in the development of recipes, formulas, procedures, stepbystep assembly instructions and CCP requirements.
Conduct plant trials to ensure verified accurate translation of smallbatch recipes into largebatch manufacturing.
Regular reformulation of products for improvement, enhancement and/or cost reduction.
Collaborate with our sales team to maintain standard communication protocol for all new product development, presentations, and implementations.
Perform nutritional analysis for the product developed to ensure that it meets all the required specifications.
Aid in sourcing new product from various suppliers and evaluate the newly sourced product.
Coordinate and execute product tastings, recipe reevaluations, client sampling.
Monitor opportunities and competition to identify and enhance our competitive advantage
Organize and maintain proper condition of development department equipment kitchen, office, and storage areas.
Prepares and maintains detailed, accurate cost worksheets.
Collaborates with purchasing to capitalize on highvalue opportunities and newtomarket products.
Researches and utilizes new and trending packaging products.
Develops and maintains detailed product specifications for all manufactured items.
Lead and conduct shelflife testing in conjunction with FSQA Manager.
Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

5+ years of product development and recipe creation.
Knowledge of industry trends, consumer insights, and competitive business strategy.
Requires adaptability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while addressing aggressive timetables for completion.
Experienced with food costing and menu analysis.
Problem solver and analytically minded.
Well versed in regulatory requirements such as GMP, SQF, BRC, HACCP.
Demonstrated professional presentation skills.
Exceptional customer service skills.
Culinary skills and food technology diploma from an accredited institution.
Computer knowledge; MS Office, Excel.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Some domestic and international travel will be required; access to a vehicle would be beneficial.

Working Condition/Physical Requirements