Executive Chef UFS ID

Business Title : Executive Chef UFS ID

Work Location : Grha Unilever

Business Context

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 Bango, Knorr, Royco, Hellman’s— trusted and used by chefs and F&B operators every day. We’re searching for an Executive Chef to own and champion the culinary know-how, solution innovations and demand creation in collaboration with cross functions.

Main Purpose of the Job

The Executive Chef in UFS Indonesia is 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. This role will be reporting to Managing Director of UFS ID and work closely with Sales (CD) and Marketing. This is a country leadership position that will be involved into critical decision making for the business, and leads culinary know-how development and decisions. There are 5 direct reports (sous chef) and dot line management of 10+ field technical chefs on co-creating demand together with sales team.

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.

• Culinary Strategy Development: Develop innovative culinary strategies aligned with market trends, customer needs, and Unilever Food Solutions' business objectives. Stay updated on industry developments, emerging culinary trends, and competitive landscape.

• Product Development and Improvement: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and improve food products, recipes, and menu solutions. Conduct sensory evaluations, recipe testing, and ensure product quality, taste, and consistency.

• Culinary Demonstrations and Presentations: Conduct product demonstrations, culinary workshops, and training sessions for customers, distributors, and internal teams. Showcase the features, benefits, and applications of Unilever Food Solutions' products.

• Menu Development and Optimization: Work with our sales and marketing teams to develop profitable and appealing menus for our customers. Lead and contribute to the growth of focus channels with culinary know how and expertise via solution selling.

• Culinary Trends Analysis: Monitor and analyze culinary trends, consumer preferences, and market insights. Translate these insights into actionable recommendations for product development, marketing strategies, and customer engagement initiatives.

• Culinary Innovation: Lead the development of innovative culinary concepts and products that align with market trends, customer needs, and our business objectives. Translate insights into product ideas and application related to country project/brief.

• Culinary Training: Responsible developing and implementing a training program that empowers and stretches the team. This will incorporate chef skills, presentation, and commercial acumen skills.

• Culinary Support: Provide expert culinary support and advice to our customers, helping them to improve their operations and achieve their business objectives. Co-ordinate with internal team from CD, CD Ops, R&D, CD Capability, Marketing and related functions in order to ensure smooth and efficient operations to support the business growth plan.

• Brand Representation: Represent Unilever Food Solutions at industry events, trade shows, and media appearances. Build chef network and elevate digital chef branding via relevant digital touch point.

Highlights for the role

• Culinary capability building roadmap & scalability

• Culinary thought leadership and innovation

• Customer relationship with high value customers

• Cross-functional collaboration

• Country leadership responsibility

• Team leadership and people management

KPI Tracking & Iteration Key Metrics

• Culinary capability uplift (culinary strategy plan, training completion, skill assessments)

• Customer engagement and satisfaction (#recipe adoption, NPS of operators, CD satisfactory survey and feedback)

• Demand creation scale and effectiveness (#customers engaged, strike rate)

• Product development and improvement (unmissable superiority, competitiveness)

• Talent development and retention metrics

Requirements

• Academic / Professional qualification, 8 -10 years of working experience in professional kitchen including 3 years in leadership role.

• Full member of local Culinary Association

• Good command of spoken and written Bahasa Indonesia and English

• Culinary expertise and creativity, passion for growth

• Pro-active, business orientated, focused and problem solver.

• Basic knowledge of R&D, Marketing, and sales preferable

• Good presentation, planning and organizing skills.

• Able to work in multi-cultural environment.

• Possess knowledge and experience in Foodservice industry.

• National travel required.

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