R&D Innovator Products

A career with Kerry Taste & Nutrition offers you an opportunity to shape how people across the globe view food and beverage while providing you opportunities to explore and grow as your interests do. With our commitment to a sustainable future, a career with Kerry is something you can feel good about.

We’re now recruiting for an RD&A Innovation Chef to join our fast moving, exciting and creative team! We are constantly challenging ourselves to bring business innovative opportunities that help us to remain not just in, but also ahead of the game.

We have the unique capability of being able to create benchtop prototype products, enabling stakeholders to not only see but also touch & taste the future and now we’re looking for someone to be part of the magic!

Do you love to cook & enjoy being creative?

Do you relish the challenges that come with responsibility?

A new career that will bring your recipes to life!!

Exciting role with the opportunity of Global travel 

To own culinary concept development & prototyping for the RD&A Innovation team on both branded & own label products.

• You will work with the technical innovation teams & cross functionally ensure a consistent, focused, ‘one team’ approach
• To  achieve success it is critical that concepts are created within commercial scope & satisfy a clear consumer/customer need

• Own a culinary concept development across a range of RD&A innovation projects in short & long term
• ‘Bring alive’ business aligned opportunities that allow stakeholders to see, touch & taste the future
• Have the ability to problem solve, think through challenges & handle multiple data sources
• Concept/recipe development on pro-active innovation to unlock own label, branded category by combining strategic thinking, insight, creativity & technology
• Maintain awareness of the external market – food, retail, restaurant, health & nutrition, technology and brands – competitor and consumer trend and update the innovation team accordingly
• You will work with insights and other teams to identify unmet and future consumer needs, driving breakthrough thinking to facilitate the development of products, packaging or technologies to match these needs.
• Feeding in fresh thinking, ideas and concepts across a broad spectrum that leverage your idea of expertise by helping input  into medium and long term innovation pipelines

• Experience as a Senior Chef or equivalent food experience is essential
• Previous experience in the Food Manufacturing Industry is desirable
• Product/Menu costing experience
• Sourcing of ingredients/produce
• Passionate and knowledgeable about food
• Project management skills
• Highly self-motivated with a great eye for detail 

If this sounds like you, then please apply we'd be thrilled to hear from you!