Demand Creation Chef - Chef De Partie/ Sous Chef

At Unilever Food Solutions, our purpose is to Free Chefs to love what they do. We work with Hotels, Restaurants, Caterers, Cafeteria to create exciting menus that are good for diners, and good for the planet. Our brands include Knorr, Best Foods and Lady Choice— trusted and used by chefs and F&B operators every day.

Our Purpose:

Responsible for culinary expertise and create innovative application of the Unilever Food Solutions product portfolio to support business plan.

Chef support for developing and executing business plans as part of cross functional team, with the objective of delivery sales targets and profitability management.

Key Responsibility:

The Executive Chef at Unilever Food Solutions will be responsible for leading culinary innovation and development within Unilever Food Solutions. This role will collaborate closely with our marketing and sales teams to create and develop new products that align with culinary trends and our business strategies.

The Executive Chef is expected to represent the Unilever Food Solutions brand professionally at all times and to utilize their culinary expertise to support our customers and drive business growth.

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• 13th fixed month salary
• Heathcare
• Performance bonus

same position.

• Education to degree level in Culinary Institute

• Strong Business Acumen (ability to cost ingredients and menus)

• Passion for Food and the OOH industry

• Industry knowledge for Trade Customers

• Knowledge of food and industry trends

• Intellectually strong and able to apply strategic thinking to business scenarios.

• Ability to work both independently and as a team member.

• Good communication and 'people skills'.

• A demonstrable customer focused attitude.

o Resilience and tenacity.

o Strong organizational skills.

o Strong IT skills, particularly in MS Office suite , but also able to demonstrate an ability to understand and utilize other systems i.e. UFS websites, other

recipe sites, buying sites etc

The core responsibilities will be:

• Culinary thought leadership with a particular focus on the commercial benefit that UFS can deliver either directly or indirectly via our product or value added services to operators. This will be across key areas such as Food Service Operators, Chef’s knowledge exchange and other industry forums.

• Build, maintain and utilize a broad food service industry network.

• Develop and create world class solution by working closely with key customers and develop solutions (product or service) that add commercial benefit to our key customers. These solutions will be simple and evidenced as effective:Brilliant Sampling Execution and cooking demo via dish concept solution, product usage application and cooking demo.

o Effectively communicate commercial benefit of UFS product i.e. cost benefit, efficiency and additional profit.

o Present with confidence, enthusiasm, deep knowledge and passion, while communicating the commercial rationale of UFS products and services.

o Responsible to create higher demand and ensure 100% acceptance rate on UFS product, dish concept and solutions presented to operator.

o Present automated conversion link, for DSR for DT / RTM processing or thru providing right contact information

Main Accountabilities

Culinary leadership & strategic alignment.

• Fully understand and align to business strategy, along with developing the complimentary culinary strategy that will enable the sales team to meet area / regional target i.e. Turnover, Reach and Penetration Target and GTM KPIs etc..

• 100% Feet on Street, responsible for creating demand through OTIF implementation of product sampling, relevant ideation session and training program that empowers and stretches the UFS Operators. This will incorporate chef skills, selling skills, presentation and commercial acumen skills enabling UFS operator improve their efficiency and profitability.

• Ensure deep understanding of the challenges/pain point that our customers face in their

kitchens/operations.

• Increase penetration; introduce, improve, and grow usage of UFS SKU per operator, increasing sales orders and demand creation to conversion to usage of UFS ingredients

• Add value to UFS and our customers by bringing the commercial angle to the industry enabling Chefs to be free to love what they do.

Administration:

• OTIF submission of reports and 100% utilization of CRM Tools.

• Manage the data/recipes for UFS website, CRM Tools, Recipe Library

• Support recipe development for selling stories

Business Partnering:

Ensure KPIs are met and participate in idea generation and execution through sales team