Corporate Executive Chef

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 QUALIFICATIONS: 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