Blount Fine Foods is seeking a Senior Product Development Chef to support their sales team in recipe development, customer-focused development, and presentations, aiming to create restaurant-quality products and expand their market reach.
Requirements
- Basic understanding of culinary arts is required
- 3-5 years related experience and/or training
Responsibilities
- Develop culinary business relationships with our key national account’s culinary personnel and key retail customers.
- Develop an understanding of key customers’ menus, price points, strategy, LTO programs, focus, etc. to contribute to sales and marketing.
- Analyze and determine who and what customers/projects fit our wheelhouse and strategic plan of growth.
- Market in-house capabilities to customers by clearly communicating Blount Fine Foods’ design services, regulatory expertise, certifications (SQF, USDA, Organic, etc.), commercialization know-how, and other benefits of working with Blount.
- Maintain understanding of realistic timelines to set initial expectations of projects to sales reps and customers.
- Gather & communicate information required for the product development process.
- Stay familiar with the manufacturing capabilities and processes of Blount Fine Foods and co-man partners to effectively communicate information to sales representatives and customers.
Other
- Participate in innovation pipeline planning by providing ideas gleaned from customer interactions, trends, and other sources.
- Manage sample deliveries and provide support to sales team members during cuttings.
- Coordinate outside promotions and product demonstrations with the sales team, provide in-person support when applicable.
- Collaborate with Marketing to coordinate successful execution of trade shows.
- Coordinate in-house presentations for customers including ordering samples, preparation of the R&D kitchen and other spaces customers will be exposed to during the visit, collaborating with facility personnel to prepare for tours, and other tasks as needed.
- Up to 25-30% of travel may be required to support sales.
