As our Recipe Tester, you will be doing analysis through cooking! This is an essential part of the HelloFresh recipe testing process - reviewing, adjusting and re-cooking existing HelloFresh recipes. You will also support the recipe testing by planning, tracking and managing your workload through various testing and feedback processes.

What you will be doing:

• You will co-manage the HelloFresh development kitchen - adhering to HAACAP standards, keeping the kitchen stocked up with all our ingredients, weekly clean down and stock take, and generally maintain an orderly and food safe kitchen.
• Validate/final test our recipes after they’ve been externally tested to ensure they can be realistically achieved by our customers.
• Managing our external testing panel - in terms of workload, stock sheets, process feedback.
• Managing ingredients for recipe development in the HelloFresh development kitchen for the whole team.
• Maintain the cleanliness and organisation of the kitchen and the ingredients used in recipe development.
• Meeting weekly team and recipe deadlines and ensuring accuracy throughout.
• Checking and editing recipes to ensure all ordering data and instructions are correct, adhering to our style guide and ensuring they are easy to understand from a customer perspective.
• Working with the culinary team and editing recipes according to internal feedback.
• Presenting the results of recipe testing to department management, providing critical feedback and recommendations.
• Striving to identify and implement process improvements.

Who you are:

• Either a qualification /diploma in a food-related field, or experience in a food organisation.
• Fantastic organisational skills: ability to manage priorities simultaneously and meet time-sensitive deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• A working knowledge/experience of MS Excel or Google Sheets.
• Good Communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Teamwork: proven ability to work effectively within a team and across teams.
• A passion for food and a creative mindset.
• Confident in offering and receiving constructive criticism to other members of the team in group recipe discussions.