The Corporate Executive Chef is a highly-visible and hands-on cooking, and training position that will work closely with our sales department as well as with dealers, sales representatives and end-users to drive sales for all of our company's product lines. Will also help support new product development and launches through product testing and evaluation, customer support, recipe creation/cooking and product demonstrations.
JOB DUTIES:
- Conduct product demonstrations of our cooking products in the field either at our test kitchens, customer sites or corporate test sites
- Lead product demonstrations at company headquarters to help bring awareness our products cooking ability to perspective customers
- Expert in all the company's products to be able answer any questions from reps, dealers, and end-users
- Help with meal planning and preparation for demonstration events either internally or externally
- Coordinate and conduct live cooking demonstrations at trade shows both nationally and internationally
- Support all departments in New Product Development
- Support collaborative and cross-functional engagement and support of engineering/product management function to help establish product/equipment testing criterion and application performance objectives while meeting required project deadlines
- Effectively manage and utilized culinary team resources through established standards and best practices to support global sales growth objectives
- Manage and execute at a high-level functional support of ongoing marketing development
- Management and departmental task assignment to support collaborative and cross functional engagement and support of engineering function to establish product/equipment testing criterion and applications performance objectives while meeting required project deadlines
- Other duties as assigned
Skills & Requirements
- Culinary degree and minimum of 10 years work experience in a variety of kitchens
- Past experience training/teaching/coaching others on food equipment operations
- Ability to multi-task and setting priorities in a fast-pace environment
- Strong presentation and leadership skills in front of customers
Qualifications