Lead, Chef Development & Operations

This position is on – site in our Royal Caribbean Headquarters 1050

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The Royal Caribbean Group’s Celebrity F&B team has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Lead, Chef Development & Operations reporting to our Director, Culinary Development.

This position is responsible for providing functional leadership and support in the Celebrity onboard culinary operation to ensure the highest level of guest satisfaction in all areas. This includes supporting the development of all company standards and ensuring they are being adhered to in daily operations as well as concept development, culinary strategy and input of all culinary design, innovation and food cost control.

• Collaborate on all culinary creation, culinary concept development, recipe costing, and ideation.
• Support implementation efforts for new concepts across the fleet while partnering with Product Development and Culinary Leadership.
• Reinforce efforts for upcoming waste management program, all aspects including but not limited to data upkeep, tracking and waste reduction solutions and guidelines.
• Collaborate on upcoming projects such as Project Frontier, Nirvana, XC1 EU, XC2, Revites, and other future brand endeavors.
• Participates in the identification, design, development, creation, and testing of product prototypes.
• Collaborate with culinary team to create recipes that can scale up for both limited introductions and fleet product launches for celebrity brand operations support.
• Develop rapid prototypes to explore with consumers in real time environments.
• Help support the development of raw materials with procurement and finished goods.
• Lead scale-up trials of products and partner with ship leadership to train on any new processes.
• Work closely with Culinary Leadership on new products and technical characteristics and troubleshoot ingredient performance through gold standard evaluations.
• Involvement in numerous projects simultaneously.
• Creatively solve technical problems in a rapid, efficient manner.
• Assist in pipeline prioritization and technical assessment of future innovation projects and ideas.
• Collaborate with Product Development, Food & Beverage, and Operations in the innovative product development process of all types of products and cuisines.
• Develop menu items to eliminate slow moving inventory and other continuous improvement projects.
• Ensure to project manage all projects to accurately report product development activities and timelines to key team members.
• Plays a key role with Gold Standard evaluations and look for non-conformities and alert procurement.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of this role.
• Write detailed recipes and SOPs, documents, and perform costing analysis with all new recipes.
• Assists and develops recommendations and leads to change efforts for new items and continuous improvement of current menu/items.
• Conducts the day-to-day activities in the Test Kitchen along with coordinating any food tastings and product reviews.
• Responsible for all culinary photography, media and video
• Responsible for USPH scores and upholding food safety standards
• All onboard culinary training and SOP creation.
• Supervises and offers guidance on all culinary components for groups and charters.
• Creation an oversight of special menus implementation within the fleet
• New culinary initiative and concept development
• Oversees crew food program.
• Attends designated food and equipment shows as approved by VP of Food and Beverage.
• Conducts culinary taskforce assignments as needed.
• Leads and manages the Global Culinary Demonstrations and Activations in Designated Marketing events. Traveling as requested by VP, FB ops.
• Is responsible for any fleet galley design-related equipment.

Performs other duties as required. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the…