Samworth Brothers Limited

Development Chef

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Job Location

Leicester, United Kingdom

Job Description

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations: -
  • Enhanced pension scheme
  • Private health scheme
  • Employee discount scheme
  • Experience annual pay reviews
  • Profit related pay
  • Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
The Opportunity

We are really excited to be recruiting for this role due to an internal promotion. We strongly support our internal talent in terms of training and progression so this could be you opportunity to join a business where you can take steps forward in your career.
In this role you will be working with our new product development team to deliver high quality concepts, products, recipes and to ensure that products are delivered to spec and on time. You will interpret and pre empt customer briefs to ensure that new and relevant products are being proposed to our customers and brands. You will therefore keep up to date on new products in the market, trends and consider quality improvements to keep Samworth Brothers savoury pastry at the forefront of the market in terms of delivering quality innovative products.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Create new products from initial concept to bakery trial phase taking commercial constraints into consideration along with consumer and market rationale.
  • Attend product submissions, providing customers with new/amended product samples along with relevant paperwork, adhering to brand standards.
  • Ensure strong knowledge of site ingredient list along with supplier capability to ensure relevant and up to date ingredients are used for new product development
  • To act as a key point of contact for your customers to ensure that communication is carried out in a timely manner to foster strong working relationships
  • Present internal concept ideas to the senior management team and at internal feasibility to ensure visibility of all new products in the bakery.
The Ideal Candidate

We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience: -
  • Experience as a chef or product technologist within a manufacturing environment for chilled food.
  • Experience of delivering under pressure and to tight deadlines.
  • Working with retail and other external customers would be an advantage
  • Computer literate with a good working knowledge of excel, PowerPoint and Word
  • Able to demonstrate practical cooking demonstrations to a high standard with a natural flair and passion for food.
We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member you'll be an integral part of our thriving family.Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!
About Us
We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UKs best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.

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Location: Leicester, GB

Posted Date: 12/25/2024
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December 25, 2024
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