Prep Kitchen Manager - Culinary

About Us:

TMB (Trusted Media Brands) is a community-driven entertainment company that produces content inspired and created by our fans. We offer best-in-class insights and data-driven marketing solutions that reach engaged communities passionate about food, home, lifestyle and wellness; and now following our August 2021 acquisition of Jukin Media, a leading digital entertainment company, we also engage audiences across the pets, humor, and active lifestyle verticals. In all, we reach nearly 60 million people in the U.S., and deliver more than two billion minutes of monthly video viewership across streaming TV and social media. See what is new at FailArmy, Taste of Home, The Pet Collective, Family Handyman, People Are Awesome, Reader’s Digest, The Healthy and Birds & Blooms.

Location:

This is an office critical position. Candidates for this role will need to be in or around the Milwaukee, WI area and will be required to be on site.

About the role:

As Prep Kitchen Manager for Taste of Home, you are responsible for managing the overall operations of the prep kitchen and leading the culinary assistant(s) in the planning, procuring and preparation of food and recipes for Taste of Home and other brands. Reporting to the Executive Director, Culinary, you’re a critical team leader who will impart culinary knowledge and skills in preparing recipes to varying degrees of completion in support of culinary producers, recipe editor/tester, as well as visual production, digital, video and affiliate teams. In addition to hands‑on recipe prep and grocery management, you will schedule, train and mentor the prep kitchen team, fostering culinary assistant career development. You’re a critical utility player, responsible for executing other types of content that can be used across all food media products in areas that help build Taste of Home’s culinary authority.

About you:

Driven by your passion to cook, create and inspire, you’re a highly creative individual with a hunger for meaningful (and fun) work. A person with a diverse skill set and proven potential with the many facets required of this role (including managerial experience and being comfortable on camera), you are flexible with job duties and self‑motivated to produce the best content possible. You enjoy managing people in person, working amongst your direct reports and peers and appreciate the value of giving regular feedback to help others grow. You are collaborative in nature and understand how to work with and motivate a team in a fast‑paced environment to make content come to life across multiple channels. Being a part of a dynamic environment with others who share in your healthy obsession for all things food related excites and delights you!

Your day-to-day:

• You ensure prep kitchen performance management and quality control initiatives are focused and aligned to meeting the needs of internal customers and departmental goals
• You hire, train, mentor and manage prep kitchen staff
• You provide leadership for all prep kitchen production and staffing to ensure daily prepping needs for content creation are met
• You interpret recipes and prep instructions to make solid decisions for recipe mise en place and fully finished recipes
• You participate in a collaborative team that executes digital content (photography and video), meeting daily production goals
• You utilize our collaborative web-based platform (Airtable) for production workflows as well as our proprietary recipe management system (RMS)
• You star in social media videos for digital and social teams
• You participate in product testing for Affiliate (and other) content
• You tackle assignments with direction from the Executive Director, Culinary and work on multiple initiatives simultaneously

You have:

• Accredited Culinary Art degree or equivalent food industry experience
• Previous test kitchen experience preferred or related cooking experience
• Prior experience in a leadership role managing people is required
• Ability to prioritize and organize, consistently meeting deadlines and catching all the details whether working independently or as part of a team
• Effective communication skills; comfortable accepting and giving constructive feedback in a collaborative environment with a commitment to supporting an evolving, dynamic team
• Experience with content production and digital asset management tools such as Airtable as well as Microsoft Excel

About this team:

As part of the culinary team of superstars, you will not only be among talented, high-performing, goal-focused foodie friends who laugh (and snack) a lot, but you will be in an incredibly unique career. We work very closely with the Visual Production, Digital and Video teams to create high-quality content that is profitable and grows the brand. To get through all our tasks, overcome challenges and achieve our daily goals, it is important that our work environment is friendly, trusting, and supportive as well as incredibly productive. You will be a welcome and appreciated member of a dedicated, successful team.

Our benefits:

We value our people and offer a collaborative and engaging culture. As a TMB employee, you will enjoy work/life balance, generous time off and comprehensive benefits and programs. Learn more about what life is like working at TMB at

TMB embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.