Company: IRCA Group is a leading international B2B provider of semi-finished ingredients for the bakery, pastry, and gelato markets. Our products cater to independent producers as well as large food manufacturers. We produce chocolate, decorations, creams, inclusions, pastry mixes, gelato ingredients, and other bakery/pastry essentials. Headquartered in Italy, IRCA Group boasts a strong track record of growth over the past decade, with 22 manufacturing facilities all over the world, 2000+ employees and €1.5 billion of revenues.
What we offer
- IRCA fosters a dynamic environment, embracing diversity and valuing diverse perspectives and international experiences, offering a stimulating context. We promote professional growth by providing tailor-made development programs and career advancement opportunities locally and internationally. With locations worldwide, we offer the chance to work on international projects, collaborate across cultures, and gain a global perspective. Joining our team means becoming part of a global community of passionate professionals dedicated to making a difference. If you are looking for stimulating challenges and the chance to contribute your ideas for process improvement in an ever-growing company, IRCA is the right place.
Position in the organization:
- The position locally reports to the Head of Sales & Marketing APAC
Description of Main Activities/Responsibilities:
- The Corporate Chef key responsibility is to promote, demonstrate, show the company products to customers, to support the sales & marketing team with ideas and creations, and to develop and prepare recipes using the company products.
- In particular he/she will be responsible for:
- - Training of customers (internally at the company’s sites or externally at customers’
- - Defining the demos programs in alignment with HOS based on local priorities.
- - Participating in and demonstrating at fairs & exhibitions
- - Creating and preparing recipes using any kind of group product without any limitation, in accordance with the guidelines and programs received.
- - Scanning and collecting ideas-suggestions for improving the company’s current products based on a competitive scenario and proposing any improvement that may be required to satisfy local customers
- - Proposing innovative ideas to increase business opportunities.
- - Defining the best usage of any group products in the Asia Pacific market via demos and / or product recipes & preparation
- - Creating cakes / pastries / desserts for photo shoots. These photos are used for various marketing purposes
- - Supervising and promoting events (for example: jam-sessions) with the chefs that collaborate with IRCA Group and with customers, based on HOS input.
Powers:
- Is responsible for carrying out its task and making necessary arrangements in consultation with the Responsible.
Work hours:
- Weekly, if necessary, weekends.
Necessary knowledge:
- Possess a training degree of Pastry Chef
- Speak/write English and one other foreign language
- Have general computer knowledge
- Communication skills, creative, innovative.
- Team player
- Knowledge of group product assortment
- Experienced presentation skills
- Knowledge of chocolate and pastry trends
- Experience in a similar position
- Passion for the job
