Manager Culinary Development

2 weeks ago

Dubai, United Arab Emirates The Emirates Group Full time

Job Purpose: Emirates Service Delivery group is comprised of multiple business areas that are fundamental to our overall operations. These areas include Catering, Product, Retail, In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity, Cabin Crew Management, Cabin Crew Centre of Excellence and Uniform Standards & Development. Each group is filled with passionate people who are experts in their field of work. Our Service Delivery teams play a key role in the success of our business and the growth of our brand

**About the Role**:
As a **Manager for Culinary Development, **you will manage the recipe, dish and menu design process to ensure that Emirates remains at the forefront of trending/innovative global cuisine. Manage a centralised culinary development Centre of Excellence that creates and owns the Emirates recipe bank. In collaboration with key stakeholders and through the effective use of data and customer insights, plan network wide menus that consistently delight our guests. Plan and execute Dubai based, centralised culinary workshops that focuses on the education of dish/menu preparation for the EK network wide inflight & premium class lounge catering partners. Additionally, this role also involves managing EK-owned food and beverage items and developing and managing EK nominated food suppliers.

**In this role you will be**:

- Accountable for the planning and day to day management of the EK Culinary Centre of Excellence ensuring that annual targets of blue-sky cuisine innovations and individual dish creations are exceeded.
- In collaboration with the Service design team, responsible for supporting the decision making for flight/cabin level meal service standards.
- Accountable for the creation and development of detailed recipes that are conducive to performing optimally in the EK, network wide catering partner facilities.
- Responsible for documenting and version controlling all EK recipes and production methods in the EK owned, catering management system.
- In collaboration with the Regional Catering Management and Business Insights teams, accountable for station level menu planning ensuring customers’ expectations are exceeded.
- Accountable for planning and executing regular Dubai based, global inflight supplier culinary workshops to ensure that the education of individual dish and menu creations are understood and consistently translated around the EK network.
- Accountable for the product development life cycle management of EK owned, category specific, food and beverage items.
- Accountable for developing the EK centralised, nominated food and beverage suppliers to ensure that we can constantly improve our speed to market and efficiency gains.
- Responsible for identifying and developing food and beverage promotional and celebratory initiatives to effectively promote and market EKs award winning offering.
- Responsible for carrying out regular industry benchmarking across all hospitality sectors to ensure that EK remains at the forefront of food and beverage innovation.

**Qualifications & Experience: This job might be for you if you have**:

- Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Culinary or Food Design, or a related field. Culinary apprenticeship is preferred.
- 10+ years as Chef in both fine dining and reputable large scale food production facility. Additional experience in a culinary development role is also preferred.

**You'll have an edge if you possess**:

- Comprehensive understanding and interest in global cuisines and trends.
- A deep understanding of recipe development and upscaling.
- Knowledge on airline catering and large scale, cook chill process challenges and considerations.
- An ability to train, coach and educate peers and external vendors on individual dish creations.
- A strong, self-confident presenter who can communicate with conviction to all levels of the organisation.
- A detailed planner and organiser.Ability to operate under pressure and time constraints.

**Safety Sensitive Role**:No

**Leadership Role**:Yes

Salary & Benefits: Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more.

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