Job Description
Company Description Whether you're just beginning your career or have years of experience-you've come to the right place! Working at Alto-Shaam means you're a part of a passionate team working together towards one goal.
Since 1955, Alto-Shaam has pioneered industry-leading commercial foodservice equipment that anticipates and responds to our customers' needs. Our solutions help foodservice businesses like Sendik's Food Market and Saz's Hospitality Group enhance their menus while providing a greater return on their investment.
Our world-class products are made in a world-class facility. Alto-Shaam's headquarters and manufacturing space is dynamic, clean and safe for all.
As a family company, we also take care of our people by providing market-leading benefits:
- Earn an annual bonus on your gross income, which has averaged 15% over the past five years
- Low to NO COST premiums for full coverage healthcare with wellness participation
- 11 paid holidays and generous earned PTO
- Advancement opportunities to grow through our career ladders program
- Tuition assistance to pursue a degree or certification
- Fitness reimbursement for gym memberships, classes, or training sessions
- Biannual performance reviews with yearly merit increases
- Annual free lunch with the company president to celebrate your work anniversary
Job Description The Corporate Executive Chef is a highly-visible and hands-on cooking, and training position that will work closely with Alto-Shaam's Sales department as well as with dealers, sales representatives and end-users to drive sales for all of Alto-Shaam's product lines. Will also help support new product development and launches through product testing and evaluation, customer support, recipe creation/cooking and product demonstrations.
The ideal candidate for a Corporate Executive Chef would be able to do the following: - Conduct product demonstrations of Alto-Shaam's products in the field either at our rep's test kitchens, customer sites or corporate test sites.
- Lead product demonstrations at Alto-Shaam's HQ to help bring awareness our products cooking ability to perspective customers.
- Expert in all Alto-Shaam's product to be able answer any questions from reps, dealers, and end-users.
- Help with meal planning and preparation for demonstration events either internally or externally.
- Coordinate and conduct live cooking demonstrations at trade shows both nationally and internationally
- Support Alto-Shaam departments in New Product Development. Support collaborative and cross-functional engagement and support of engineering/product management function to help establish product/equipment testing criterion and application performance objectives while meeting required project deadlines.
- Effectively manage and utilized culinary team resources through established standards and best practices to support global sales growth objectives.
- Manage and execute at a high-level functional support of ongoing marketing development
- Management and departmental task assignment to support collaborative and cross functional engagement and support of engineering function to establish product/equipment testing criterion and applications performance objectives while meeting required project deadlines.
Qualifications For a candidate to be successful as a Corporate Executive Chef they must have: - Culinary degree and minimum of 10 years work experience in a variety of kitchens
- Past experience training/teaching/coaching others on food equipment operations
- Past experience using Alto-Shaam's equipment is a plus
- Ability to multi-task and setting priorities in a fast-pace environment
- Strong presentation and leadership skills in front of customers
Additional Information We are looking for team-members that exemplify and live our High FIVE values:
- High Quality: Are you detailed-oriented and ensure the accuracy of your work?
- Family: Do you exceed expectations by being attentive and going above and beyond?
- Improve : Are you passionate about finding solutions to streamline and enhance the way you and your peers work?
- Voice : Are you a positive person who wants to make an impact on others?
- Empower: Are you a go-getter who takes initiative and pride in your work?
If you share our values, we want you to be a part of our Alto-Shaam family!
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