R&D Chef I

Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are. In 2023, Home Chef introduced a new brand, Tempo ! Tempo features a rotating selection of ready-to-heat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are better-for-you versions of familiar favorites, designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are protein-packed, fiber-rich, calorie and carb conscious, keto-friendly, and dietitian-approved. Similar to our recipes, we recognize that variety is the spice of life, and therefore, our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. We’re eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chef’s offerings. The Research and Development Chef I will conceive and create new recipes for the Home Chef menu that meet our nutritional, cost and ingredient specifications. This is a kitchen centric role that works cross functionally throughout the department. Detailed Responsibilities R&D New Meals Conceive accessible, creative new recipes in the test kitchen that apply to cost, ingredient, caloric/nutritional, and time constraints Collaborate with kitchen team, to improve and test each other’s dishes, potentially coordinating daily taster assignments Take extensive and honest feedback every day on meal accessibility and flavors and incorporate into recipes Work closely with the recipe development team to ensure constraints are met, recipe tester feedback is incorporated, and customers will be able to execute meals Collaborates with photography team in order to plate dishes in a way that will appeal to customers for menu surveys Manages a minimum average rating of 4.00 with equal success across all product lines Averages a minimum 3 meals weekly through the Selection Committee process Evaluate Customer Feedback Thoroughly understand how average customer cooks and strive to make meals as streamlined, quick, and easy as possible Analyze customer comments on meals from both menu runs and beta runs, and incorporate learnings into new recipes Weekly Culinary Meetings Attend and participate in weekly culinary team meetings, including Performance Board, Team Check-ins, and Taster Pre-shift with opportunity to lead Attends and supports cross functional teams initiatives, new product lines, sampling ingredients, supply team check-ins This position requires 0-10% travel. Qualifications The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities. Completion of a two-year program such as an…