Advisory Chef - Hot Cooking

• Experience in 5 Star Hotels or similar level establishments
• Ability to manage backend operation in a hot kitchen
• Professional maturity to engage with stakeholders and customers
*Job Purpose
Reporting to the Senior Advisory Chef, you will work closely with Sales Execution and Demand Creation teams to develop new applications, recipes and kitchen efficiency solutions that assist our customers to profitably grow their businesses and increase their demand for Fonterra dairy products.
*Some of the key areas you would own:
• Provide functional benefit and application training to the Foodservices team (both Fonterra and distributor sales teams) to lift our selling game through superior technical knowledge of our products.
• Monitor food trends that use dairy products in Foodservice bakery and hot kitchen applications in other relevant countries and adapt for Vietnam and Cambodia.
• Develop close working relationships with key customers to clearly understand their needs and then develop technical solutions using Fonterra products that enhance their business.
• Present new recipe/ products to customers, with a focus on Fonterra product advantages.
• Assist the Sales Execution and Demand Creation teams to interact with customers and follow up on technical application commitments.
• Technical responsibility for the Foodservice Division's Innovation Strategy.
• Identification of new recipes and technical solutions for the Vietnam and Cambodia markets from a variety of sources.
• Responsible for development of all technical solutions and training of the Foodservices team.
• Benchmark testing regime established and maintained for all Fonterra and competitive set products.
• Responsible for the setting and continual improvement of professional standards for Fonterra Foodservice product demonstrations and technical detailing.