Emmi Desserts UK has four bakeries in the UK and we have an amazing opportunity at our site in Maidenhead where we make amazing cakes and desserts for the food service industry.
A development chef's role offers the opportunity to let your creative juices run wild and help create amazing sweet treats for coffee shops, restaurants and cafes.
Working with the NPD team, the successful candidate will help to create new recipes whilst also looking at how to make our existing amazing products even better.
The successful candidate must have experience in development, working in a busy kitchen and specifically with patisserie.
This role would ideally suit someone who is looking to stay in a kitchen environment but wants to explore other aspects of product development such as scaling up with bakery trials and seeing a product through to market.
Successful candidates will have:
- A natural passion for food, especially baking, be highly organised and able to manage your own workload.
- At least 2 year experience of working within a professional kitchen, restaurant or development ideally in patisserie, along with a professional baking or patisserie qualification
- Good attention to detail, ability to learn quickly and get started on new projects.
- Good IT skills and strong communications skills both written and verbal.
There is no sponsorship available for this role so candidates must have unrestricted valid right to work in the UK
The first stage of the recruitment process will be a Teams call with our NPD Controller to find out more about the role and to chat through what makes you the ideal candidate.
If this role sounds exciting then drop us your CV, and covering letter
Salary - circa £35,000, subject to experience