Manager Culinary Development

Job Purpose

Join our Catering team, where you will be part of an exciting business area that plays a vital role in delivering the Emirates ‘Fly Better’ experience. This team is responsible for a wide range of food and non-food functions, including catering, equipment, and amenities for inflight dining and special events.

If you are passionate about culinary excellence, logistics, and delivering world-class service, we invite you to apply and contribute to the success of Emirates Group. As a key part of our Service Delivery operations, our catering team makes crucial decisions that enhance the customer experience and elevate our growing global brand.

About The Role

As a Manager for Culinary Development, you will manage the recipe, dish and menu design process to ensure that Emirates remains at the forefront of trending/innovative global cuisine. Manage a centralised culinary development Centre of Excellence that creates and owns the Emirates recipe bank. In collaboration with key stakeholders and through the effective use of data and customer insights, plan network wide menus that consistently delight our guests. Plan and execute Dubai based, centralised culinary workshops that focuses on the education of dish/menu preparation for the EK network wide inflight & premium class lounge catering partners. Additionally, this role also involves managing EK-owned food and beverage items and developing and managing EK nominated food suppliers.

In This Role You Will Be

• Accountable for the planning and day to day management of the EK Culinary Centre of Excellence ensuring that annual targets of blue-sky cuisine innovations and individual dish creations are exceeded.
• In collaboration with the Service design team, responsible for supporting the decision making for flight/cabin level meal service standards.
• Accountable for the creation and development of detailed recipes that are conducive to performing optimally in the EK, network wide catering partner facilities.
• Responsible for documenting and version controlling all EK recipes and production methods in the EK owned, catering management system.
• In collaboration with the Regional Catering Management and Business Insights teams, accountable for station level menu planning ensuring customers’ expectations are exceeded.
• Accountable for planning and executing regular Dubai based, global inflight supplier culinary workshops to ensure that the education of individual dish and menu creations are understood and consistently translated around the EK network.
• Accountable for the product development life cycle management of EK owned, category specific, food and beverage items.
• Accountable for developing the EK centralised, nominated food and beverage suppliers to ensure that we can constantly improve our speed to market and efficiency gains.
• Responsible for identifying and developing food and beverage promotional and celebratory initiatives to effectively promote and market EKs award winning offering.
• Responsible for carrying out regular industry benchmarking across all hospitality sectors to ensure that EK remains at the forefront of food and beverage innovation.
  
  

Qualification

This Job Might Be For You If You Have

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Culinary or Food Design, or a related field. Culinary apprenticeship is preferred.
• 10+ years as Chef in both fine dining and reputable large scale food production facility. Additional experience in a culinary development role is also preferred.
  
  

Youll Have An Edge If You Possess

• Comprehensive understanding and interest in global cuisines and trends.
• A deep understanding of recipe development and upscaling.
• Knowledge on airline catering and large scale, cook chill process challenges and considerations.
• An ability to train, coach and educate peers and external vendors on individual dish creations.
• A strong, self-confident presenter who can communicate with conviction to all levels of the organisation.
• A detailed planner and organiser.
• Ability to operate under pressure and time constraints.
  
  

At Emirates, were committed to helping our people grow and thrive. If youre ready for a rewarding and challenging career, apply today and be a part of our world class team!

Salary & benefits

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers.

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