Recipe Development Manager Nz

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high-quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy, and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.
- About HelloFresh

Here at HelloFresh, we’re passionate about bringing dinner inspiration to everyday Australians. With 11 years of service under our belt, we are the market leader in the growing world of meal kit delivery services, operating in 15 different countries.

As we continue to deliver fresh, seasonal ingredients and delicious, wholesome recipes to our customers, we see our inspired community of empowered home-cooks continue to grow, and you could be a part of it

Are you energetic and motivated with a team focus? Do you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment? If you're looking for a role that lets you make an impact every single day, we'd love to hear from you.

The role

As the NZ Recipe Development Manager you will oversee our highly rigorous recipe creation process in our Sydney-based Test Kitchen.

You will lead a team of two talented Recipe Developers, whilst also being involved in recipe creation, and will work collaboratively with the wider Culinary and Product Development team to ensure our product is simple, delicious, and data-driven for our growing horde of hungry customers.

You will
- Lead and support NZ Recipe Developers to ensure recipes meet internal performance assessment and align with our product roadmap and consistent standards of excellence across concepts.
- Initiate and undertake strategic/creative projects to achieve key initiatives, aligned with the broader objectives and product improvement.
- Create recipes that are within budget, nutritional, and variety constraints, leveraging product insights, food trends, customer feedback, and the recipe database to create exciting and successful new dishes each week.
- Lead recipe tastings by ensuring feedback is provided and collected from all participants, encompassing recipe flavour, composition, and methods.
- Review performance of weekly menus and implement strategic learnings for existing and future recipe development to address customer feedback, perfect recipes and drive score improvements.
- Collaborate with wider Product Development team; Editorial, Culinary Analytics & Operations and Innovation, in product creation beyond development and deliver on strategic projects to support both new and existing product development.

You have
- Comprehensive culinary expertise, backed-up by experience and knowledge.
- At least 4-5 years’ experience in food product development, ideally across menu development, Test Kitchen, magazine or meal kit experience.
- A Culinary Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in a related field.
- Experience in people management: cultivating performance, growth and engagement in a team.

You are
- Obsessed with food, and passionate about keeping up to date with food trends and developments in the Culinary space.
- A supportive people leader - you act as a role model, lead, inspire and motivate your team, foster feedback, learning and development.
- Creative and pragmatic when it comes to creating new recipes and using new, exciting, and alternative ingredients.
- An excellent communicator - able to communicate at all levels with structure, clarity, poise and precision, both written and verbal.
- Proactive, ambitious, and assertive: you take ownership of your work and think beyond the scope of a given assignment.
- An outstanding problem solver - use logic to identify opportunities, evaluate alternatives, and synthesise and present critical information to solve problems.
- Incredibly organised - you demonstrate effective time management skills in the midst of shifting priorities.
- Able to maintain consistent deadlines while ensuring complete accuracy across all tasks.
- Passionate about our business and changing the grocery retail landscape in New Zealand.

What you’ll get in return
- The chance to have a significant impact on one of the fastest-growing global technology companies in an exciting growth phase
- 70% discount off HelloFresh boxes
- Opportunities to expand your scope and constant learning with room for personal growth
- Free access to Headspace
- HelloFresh Academies - monthly internal learning & development
- A diverse and vibrant international environment, with offices in 15 countries
- Flexible working arrangements; 3 days in office, 2 days from home.

Start Date: Immediate

Duration: Full time r