Director of Culinary Enablement

The Director of Culinary Enablement works directly with the Restaura culinary team and kitchen brigade to support ingredient strategy, recipe development, restaurant menu concepts, and training/inspecting culinary standards.

Manages accurate recipe documentation and compliance with culinary standards, including maintaining the Restaura pantry list, recipe collection, and menu concepts. Liaison between Restaura and enterprise supply chain management department; responsible for growing our responsibly sourced and local procurement in alignment with brand values and culinary commitments.

Essential Tasks and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

1. Completes recipe development/editing/maintenance in culinary databases
2. Support the recipe development process with process changes and new recipe procedures as directed by culinary leadership
3. Manage recipe changes associated with enterprise and SKU optimization projects, including global ingredient changes.
4. Manage supporting recipe development documentation as required, including scanning completed recipes for electronic record-keeping
5. Support the overall recipe development process, ensuring recipes are sound from a culinary preparation and proper yield perspective by established methods.
6. Creates/maintains menu/recipe tools to enable field menu execution (MTO sorter, SOP videos, recipe cards, etc.)
7. Responsible for working at the direction of culinary leadership to obtain new ingredient forms and manage the process of entering new ingredients.
8. Assists with planning and execution of development team presentations, ideation sessions, vendor presentations and product-cutting
9. Scales vendor recipes when applicable.
10. Organizes monthly calls with constituent groups to ensure alignment
11. Manages field inquiries and feedback related to recipes, (Recipe Feedback, Recipe Questions, Ingredient Hotline portals)
12. Responsible for tagging recipes in the menu management system.
13. Maintains the Restaura menu constructs and provides updates at the direction of the culinary team and kitchen brigade.
14. Responsible for supporting Restaura culinary training in new field locations and newly onboarded culinary talent.
15. Creates menus for new Restaura sites
16. Responsible for developing, scaling, deploying & support liaison for Galley across Restaura
17. This position acts as a liaison between client partner sites and supply chain to develop additional collaborative relationships with farmers, ranchers, and producers to increase Restaura responsible and local procurement to include, but not limited to, whole animal purchasing programs, third-party certification, food hubs, M/WBE, BIPOC, and others.
18. The position requires periodic travel to client partner sites as required by the business and directed by Restaura leadership.
19. Utilizes tools to effectively manage workflow (Excel, Smartsheet, GoogleDocs)
20. Carry out special projects as assigned.

Qualifications:

1. Prior administrative experience is preferred.
2. Must have working knowledge of Microsoft applications, including (but not limited to) Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
3. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
4. Strong organizational skills, accuracy, and attention to detail.
5. Position requires occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of up to 25 pounds.
6. Position requires frequent repetitive motion of hands and/or arms.