Executive Chef, North American Foodservice

Position reports directly to Director Enterprise Culinary

What you will do…  

• Apply and demonstrate hands on culinary expertise across the current product portfolio & future innovation in ensuring great tasting food/beverages for our consumers, striking the right balance between hands on product development and directing the efforts of others
• Identify and tracking of influential foodservice and consumer cooking trends.
• Provides formal guidance and supervision to Senior Chef. Reviews assignments, work plans, and experimental results of others prior to delivery to management.
• Serve as the culinary voice for NAFS
• Provide strategic leadership for all culinary functions,
• Partnership with R&D partners, external chefs (brokers) & foodservice operators to support innovation for the NAFS portfolio (soups, sauces, entrees, sides, beverages- frozen and shelf stable products)
• Drive business strategies and objectives within NAFS Strategic
• Strong understanding of competitive landscape and ability to win new business through duplication projects and menu gap analysis.
• Knowledge of restaurant operations and can navigate and simplify complex BOH (back of house) systems by providing solutions for foodservice operations.
  • Understanding of foodservice operators’ headwinds (Cost constraints labor/food) and menu complexity.
• Cross-functional collaboration and understanding and willingness to learn more deeply the manufacturing capabilities and constraints to enable successful translation and scale up of Culinary Gold Standards to Culinary Prototypes through fully commercialized products
• Collaboration with internal and external marketing teams.
• Develop & mentor direct culinary reports.
• Demonstrate culinary thought leadership, business strategy, & creative problem solving.

Who you will work with…

• Highly proficient culinary expertise & collaborative working style
• Sales minded professional
• Proficient decision making
• Project management & prioritization of projects with team
• Influence / communicate with functional partners and clients in a way that fosters collaboration
• Effective presentations skills & ability to influence
• Mentoring/coaching skills
• Excellent communication skills- Verbal & Written
• Some understanding of scale up/manufacturing challenges

What you bring to the table (must haves)…  

• HS diploma or equivalent
• 10+ years of progressive restaurant experience, including 5+ years as an Executive Chef in high-end establishments, with proven success leading culinary teams, driving innovative menu development, and managing full P&L performance.

It would be great if you have (nice to haves)…  

• Education: Culinary Degree (AOS) from an Accredited Culinary School preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Minimum of 7 to 10 years CPG or culinary industry related experience required
• Must have experience working in restaurant / foodservice operations, leading culinary teams and culinary projects

Working Conditions:

• Camden office based, within the Campbells Kitchens & Labs, with consistent travel (20-30%), With the potential to be higher at times.

Compensation and Benefits:

The target base salary range for this full-time, salaried position is between

$131,000-$188,400

Individual base pay depends on work location and additional factors such as experience, job-related skills, and relevant education or training. Total pay may include other forms of compensation. In addition, we offer competitive health, dental, 401k and wellness benefits beginning on the first day of employment. Please ask your Talent Acquisition Partner for more information about our total rewards package.

The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity for employees and qualified applicants in all aspects of the employment relationship, including consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law.