Sterling-Rice Group (SRG) is looking for an Associate Culinary Developer to help them disrupt the food world by developing new and exciting products for major food and beverage brands. The role involves working directly with senior culinary staff to deliver high-quality work in the Restaurant/Hospitality, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), and Retail sectors.
Requirements
- Direct experience in menu item recipe development across a range of culinary styles, from mainstream to elevated
- Direct experience in the manufacturing space, whether from a development perspective or other involvement in the commercialization process
- Ability to contribute to kitchen engagements, including participating on teams of chefs for FOH (demonstrations, cuttings) and BOH (ideation, protocepting) experiences
- Has 3+ years of relevant experience, which could include a culinary role in a dynamic foodservice/CPG organization or an R+D role at a CPG food development/innovation company
- Operational expertise as pertains to facility management, including equipment maintenance, sanitation and food safety, commercial kitchen design, and culinary process efficiency
- Ability to evaluate diverse problems and situations and to address and solve with thoughtful, effective strategy and tactics
- Ability to transition quickly and seamlessly between high-level strategic thinking and front-line tactical problem-solving
Responsibilities
- Participate in ideations and develop recipes for a variety of products and menu items on behalf of CPG and Foodservice clients
- Drive the recipe vetting process post-workshop, refining and standardizing menu item builds within the SRG format
- Own — with consultation from the Managing Director, Culinary and Culinary Director — primary responsibility for the operation of the Back of House of SRG’s Boulder, CO Culinary Center, including cleaning and maintenance, provisioning of supplies, and other daily operational details
- Provide support to SRG Culinary and Culinary Council members prior to and during ideations and workshops
- Participate as a culinary team member at trade shows, client meetings, and other culinary presentations from the planning phase through execution, preparing materials for shipment and acting as a representative of SRG Culinary during those engagements
- Assist the Culinary Director in the research for and development of SRG Culinary intellectual property that highlights trends and insights, emerging ingredients and techniques, and other strategic or tactical details
- Recipe auditing, scaling, and formatting
Other
- must reside within commuting distance of office
- Passion for excellence in food quality and an ability to build/refine systems that sustain that quality
- Excellent communication skills — written, verbal, technical, and general — that incorporate diplomacy where warranted and consider audience, context, and urgency
- Industry-level curiosity around trends and insights that are germane to SRG Culinary’s practice areas, specifically in Restaurant/Hospitality and Consumer Packaged Goods
- Ability to interact confidently with a range of constituents, internal and external, including SRG department leads and their teams, vendors and suppliers, client leads and their teams, and the general public, at trade and other shows where you will represent SRG or its clients
