ButcherBox
Corporate Chef, Quality and Innovation
Watertown, Massachusetts · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$25k-$35kDetected 36 days ago
Supply ChainProcurementFood SafetySensory Analysis
About the role
- The Corporate Chef, Quality & Innovation is the culinary conscience of the ButcherBox portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Lead routine sensory evaluation of all current and incoming products to ensure flavor, texture, appearance, and consistency meet ButcherBox specifications.
- Establish and maintain culinary quality standards, spec sheets, and sensory rubrics in partnership with the Procurement and Quality and Food Safety teams.
- New Product Ideation & Partner Development
- Collaborate with the commercial and procurement teams along with supplier partners to ideate, prototype, and refine new products that fit the e-commerce portfolio.
- Lead culinary cuttings and benchmarking sessions
- Support customer pitches with culinary expertise, in-person tastings, and product demos as needed.
- Develop, test, and document recipes that showcase ButcherBox products for use in marketing, lifecycle, and content channels.
- Lead culinary cuttings and benchmarking sessions; provide structured feedback to suppliers to bring products to spec before launch.
- Partner with the marketing and content teams on recipe shoots, video content, and seasonal campaigns.
- Partner with food safety, procurement and supply chain to ensure new and existing products are commercially viable and safe.
Requirements
- Formal culinary training (CIA, Johnson & Wales, or equivalent) and 8+ years of progressive culinary experience, including time in a high-volume professional kitchen, hotel, restaurant group, or food manufacturer.
- Demonstrated experience in product development, R&D, or culinary innovation within a CPG, foodservice, or multi-unit restaurant environment.
Compensation
- Lead routine sensory evaluation of all current and incoming products to ensure flavor, texture, appearance, and consistency meet ButcherBox specifications.
- Establish and maintain culinary quality standards, spec sheets, and sensory rubrics in partnership with the Procurement and Quality and Food Safety teams.
- Conduct on-site supplier and co-manufacturer visits to evaluate processing, portioning, and finished-product quality as needed.
- Collaborate with the commercial and procurement teams along with supplier partners to ideate, prototype, and refine new products that fit the e-commerce portfolio.
- Lead culinary cuttings and benchmarking sessions; provide structured feedback to suppliers to bring products to spec before launch.
- Translate member insights and trend research into product briefs that suppliers can execute against.
Benefits
- Provide culinary subject matter expertise for member education, FAQs, and customer service training.
Company info
- ButcherBox is a certified B Corp headquartered in Boston, and honored to be celebrating our fourth year in a row on Inc.'s list of Best Workplaces. At ButcherBox, we believe in better. That's why we deliver 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef, free-range organic chicken, pork raised crate-free, and wild-caught seafood directly to our members' doors. All of our products are humanely raised or wild-caught and never given antibiotics or added hormones ever.
- We're working to build a world that's better for all, and we're inviting everyone to come along. For us, better means treating our planet with respect. It means improving the lives of animals and the livelihoods of farmers. It means never cutting corners when it comes to doing business. Ultimately, it means better meals, enjoyed together. Our team is made up of people who collaborate and support one another. We're always looking for outstanding people to join our mission!
- ButcherBox is a certified B Corp headquartered in Boston, and honored to be celebrating our fourth year in a row on Inc.'s list of Best Workplaces.
- At ButcherBox, we believe in better.
- All of our products are humanely raised or wild-caught and never given antibiotics or added hormones ever.
- For us, better means treating our planet with respect.
- It means improving the lives of animals and the livelihoods of farmers.
- It means never cutting corners when it comes to doing business.
- Ultimately, it means better meals, enjoyed together.
- Our team is made up of people who collaborate and support one another.
- We're always looking for outstanding people to join our mission!
- Partner with the retail and wholesale teams to adapt and develop products suitable for retail customers, including spec sheets, cooking guidance, and packaging considerations.
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