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About the Role

Reporting to the Head Development Chef, you will work on the entire menu lifecycle from concept to execution. This fast-paced role involves mastering product development, driving operational tasks, and acting as the on-site representative between the manager's creative concepts and production reality. Requires strong attention to detail, multitasking, communication, and a willingness to learn. This is an active role requiring you to be on your feet most of your shift. Any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £4.25 per hour.

Responsibilities

Participate in creative ideation sessions, assist with project timelines, create & develop recipes and prepare high-quality food samples for internal tastings, photo shoots, and marketing events.
Manage the end-to-end trialling process for new dish concepts.
Oversee development kitchen stock control, counting & moving stock, labelling, and maintain a spotless, presentation-ready kitchen environment.
Create 100% accurate recipes, specifications, and handover documents for the Operations team, providing hands-on training where needed.
Act as the primary face of the Food Product team within Operations—updating teams on launch schedules, collecting feedback, and resolving query items.
Partner with Fulfillment to optimise dish packaging for quality and transit, and oversee special VIP delivery preparations.

Requirements

Minimum 2 years Chef de Partie (CDP) level experience in a professional kitchen environment.
Confident in finding your way around the kitchen.
Prior experience in recipe testing or a New Product Development (NPD) environment.
Prior experience in a high volume production environment.
Experience working with a central recipe database, calculating yields, or writing technical food specifications.
A basic understanding of food costing or the logistics of a food-tech/dark kitchen business model.

Skills

Deep, genuine passion for food innovation, ingredients, and current culinary trends.
Ability to seamlessly switch gears from cooking to administrative tasks in a fast-moving scale-up environment.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to write clear instructions and build great relationships across teams.
Highly organized with excellent time-management skills and great attention to detail.

Location

North Greenwich, London
Greenwich (Dishpatch), Unit 1 & 2 City Cross Business Park, North Greenwich, , SE10 0AT

Work Type

Permanent contract
40 hours per week
35

Experience Level

Partnership Level 9

Salary/Compensations

Salary up to £37,500 depending on experience.
£29,600.00 - £44,000.00 Annual

Benefits

Night Premium at a rate of £4.25 per hour for time worked between 22:00 - 06:00.
Support flexible working.
Flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible.

About the Company

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose.
We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail.
We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify.
Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards.
We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong.
Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE.
Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Equal Opportunity

Some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates).
Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.
We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working.