Purpose: 

This position is responsible for understanding food trends and social experiences surrounding food in the market, relating them through the recipe strategy and inspiring our customers and consultants with this content across key communication channels.

Reports to the Content Manager, Culinary Education to lead the recipe arm of the overall Culinary Strategy. This role will develop recipes and culinary content that adheres to Pampered Chef’s brand and style, showcases the importance and versatility of our products, and educates on culinary techniques. Work and learn in a highly collaborative environment and create recipes that will attract new customers, strengthen relationships with current customers and inspire both customers and consultants to make mealtime memories in their own kitchens.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Owns the overall recipe strategy, including plan for seasonal development in support of product and holistic culinary strategy and in consideration of recipe distribution needs.
• Support marketing strategy and field communications annual and seasonal planning process and culinary content development.
• Manage recipe timelines and product availability to ensure recipes are turned in according to schedule
• Hands on recipe development from concept to final development, includes writing and editing recipe copy and calculating nutritional information and testing recipes using PC products. Maintain PC recipe style guide for all recipes developed
• Research and understand culinary and consumer food trends as well as cooking techniques to drive development of creative, innovative recipes and content.
• Use culinary and product expertise to support Product Management and Industrial Design team with both durable and consumable product, recipe, and culinary consultation. Recommend recipes to showcase key products.
• Work with Product, Marketing, Social Media and Multi-media services teams to properly position and support recipe and culinary content needs.
• Prior experience with introducing products and recipes to the media, live presentations, and on video.
• Other duties as assigned

Competencies: 

• Being Resilient
• Communicates Effectively 
• Demonstrates self-awareness 
• Instills Trust
• Optimizes Work

Measures of Success: 

• Marketing Efficiency 
• New Product Gross Market

Background and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Culinary Science or related field 
• Culinary certificate preferred
• 5-8 years of experience in recipe development; industry/corporate experience, experience working in marketing a plus
• Microsoft Office Experience; Excel, Word, Power Point
• Demonstrate previous experience/comfort level with video public speaking/presenting/training

About Pampered Chef:
Established in 1980 by Doris Christopher, Pampered Chef is a global marketing enterprise and a proud Berkshire Hathaway company since 2002. We develop a multi-purpose, high-quality and unique kitchen product line that includes time-saving kitchen tools, cookware, cutlery, stoneware, and pantry products serving millions of customers around the world. We support a large network of independent consultants with their direct sales efforts in addition to our corporate ecommerce business.

We celebrate the power that mealtimes have to become something more: a way to transform relationships, share stories, create traditions, and build happier and richer lives. But, with today’s expectations, we know finding the mealtime win can be difficult. We’re here to help bridge that gap between the ideal mealtime and the realities of today. We do this through our distinctive, high-quality kitchen tools, parties that show you how to make delicious, timesaving recipes, and the opportunity to join our supportive international community of more than 50,000 consultants.

Pampered Chef is committed to providing a workplace where coworkers can do their best work, whether at home or in our Addison office location. This role will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, both in our Addison office and virtually, with leaders, and cross-functional partners to measure, test, learn, and improve our customers’ mealtime journey.