Full-time role based at UCOOK warehouse in Paarden Eiland, Cape Town
Reports to Product Development Manager: Meal Kit
Working hours: 8:00 - 17:00 Monday - Friday
ABOUT US
Silvertree Brands builds disruptive purpose-driven consumer and digital brands. Our power brands include UCOOK, Faithful to Nature and PetHeaven. We focus on building amazing customer experiences that are "Good for you, good for the planet." We trust our employees with full accountability and autonomy from day one. This unique entrepreneurial and performance-driven culture enables us to achieve executional excellence.
At UCOOK we create 28 new meal kit recipes (dinners and lunch) for our customers to choose from each week, and we deliver fresh, locally-sourced and ethical pre-portioned ingredients to their door. Additionally we deliver frozen meals, desserts, kids meals and baby food.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Food Product Developer will be part of the innovative, collaborative Food Team and holds the responsibility of ensuring each KPI detailed below is managed and met on a weekly basis. The candidate is required to work cross-functionally with Procurement, Technical, Operations, Marketing, BI and Tech teams.
KPIs WITHIN THIS ROLE
1. Meal Kit Recipe development
Keep abreast of new concepts, trends and market activity
Brainstorming and ideation of recipes
Costing recipes and ensuring they deliver to value and are kept within budget
Writing recipes and adhering to standard methods, delivering instructions that are easy to follow and simple
Testing recipes
Conducting a variety of internal Food Team documentation and adhering to weekly schedules
Participate in quality checks, sampling process and shelf life tests of new and current ingredients
Evaluating tested meals, providing feedback and problem solving in the event that they under-deliver
Updating and overviewing testing documents after testing
Copy Editing recipe cards
Addressing and actioning Copy Editor feedback on testing doc and recipe cards
Work on UCOOK software platforms (i.e Power BI, server-side software, Acumatica)
Assessment of shoot imagery; ensuring that they match the recipe instructions and/ or preparations
2. Meal Kit Menu management
Ensuring menu is balanced (in ingredient variety, cost and dish type) and costed correctly
Managing the quality, trend and style of the weekly menu
Keep abreast of new concepts, trends and market activity
Weekly management of menu handover to Procurement and Production teams
Provide problem solving / analytical skills Involvement in launching new categories; managing the deadlines, and ensuring launches are successful. Conducting post-launch reviews and retrospective reports.
3. General support to cross functional teams
Involvement in brainstorming with supplier partnerships (i.e. wine partners, marketing campaigns) Technically approve supplier specifications in collaboration with the Procurement Team
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
Tertiary qualification in Food Science/ Consumer Science
Experience in product development and food manufacturing environment
Technical experience advantageous
Functional skills:
Line management - leadership abilities
Professional Culinary qualification
Passion for food and an high level of understanding food and flavours
Strong Excel skills
Time management - deadline driven
Strong oral and written communication
Attention to detail
Proficient in cross-functional team work
Creative
Able to delegate
Data intelligence
Customer centric
Soft skills:
Collaborative team player with a can-do attitude and critical thinking approach to problem solving and making things happen
Builds strong relationships
Ability to motivate self and others
Shows initiative and drive
Finger on the pulse of current trends within the Food Industry, and improving internal processes Takes accountability
Proactive and enthusiastic
Optimistic solution finder
Passionate ambassador
BENEFITS
Discounts across the Silvertree portfolio group
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
Own transportation
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