Development ChefLocation: SurreySalary: £40,000 to £45,000Hours: Monday to FridayFound Food and Drink is partnering with a highly creative food innovation business to appoint an experienced Development Chef.This is an opportunity for someone with a strong culinary background to move into a role combining food creativity, commercial development and product scale up.We are particularly interested in chefs who have trained or worked within Michelin starred restaurants, AA Rosette kitchens, luxury hotels, premium contract catering or other high quality culinary environments.Reporting to the Culinary Lead, you will take ownership of development projects from initial brief through to commercial launch.The business works with a network of specialist co-manufacturing partners, so a key part of the role will be ensuring products can move successfully from the development kitchen into commercial production.The role will include:Developing creative and commercially viable food concepts.Creating, testing, refining and documenting recipes.Preparing high quality samples for customer presentations and product reviews.Working closely with customers, internal teams and co-manufacturing partners.Supporting factory trials and resolving product or process challenges during scale up.Adapting recipes to suit different manufacturing capabilities without compromising the original concept.Researching ingredients, cuisines, formats and food trends.Managing multiple projects, development records and ..... full job details .....