Culinary Administrative Support Specialist

Summary

Join CookUnity as a Culinary Support Specialist and play a vital role in supporting our chefs and internal teams. You will be responsible for onboarding new chefs, managing recipes, and ensuring smooth operations. This role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and experience in the food industry. You will work with various stakeholders, including chefs, internal teams, and external partners. CookUnity offers a remote work environment and a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, healthcare stipend, sabbatical, and various other perks. If you are passionate about food and have a strong work ethic, this is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and growing company.

Requirements

• English fluency required
• Strong data collection, communication, and problem-solving skills required
• Culinary or food manufacturing background (i.e. Cook, Food scientist, Dietitian, etc.)
• Food development or culinary experience 3-5 years
• Experience working in the food industry, ingredient and sourcing knowledge, particularly in regards to recipe development, testing, batch scaling, edible portion yields, auditing, etc. for a large volume foodservice business
• Have the ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment - skilled at planning, organizing, prioritizing, and executing multiple projects and activities simultaneously
• Experience and a high level of expertise in data entry, a food production enterprise resource or recipe management software, food labeling and compliance programs, GSuite, and Slack
• Ability to work cross-functionally with Chefs and other CU stakeholders on important nutritional label compliance, ordering and scheduling information
• Optimistic, resourceful, and ready to take on any challenges
• Do-er mindset. Willing to roll up the sleeves
• Capability of working independently and as a team
• Teamwork mindset

Responsibilities

• Respond to inbound inquiries, and organize critical information that chefs (independent contractors) need access to as applicable to recipe development, edits, and updates
• Onboard and train chef into CU platform and recipe development systems
• Provide administrative and reporting support to Chef Success (CS) and other key stakeholders throughout each process step as needed
• End-to-end responsibility of process steps for new meals, recipe edits, nutritional, editorial, and instructional information, including maintenance of tracking tool
• Assisting CS team and Chefs with the meal life-cycle from conception to market launch; working with independent chefs to improve internal visibility, consistency, and optimization of the process
• Ability to calculate and enter scalable portion and recipe yields
• Conduct recipe input evaluations based on a defined set of targets and metrics as well as culinary best practices, recipe accuracy, etc
• Submit and track new recipes, recipe edits, and new ingredient SKUs
• Categorize recipes with CU tagging and designation system based on cuisine type, dietary preference, etc
• Weekly collaboration with CS team, Chefs, and other internal departments on the menu and meal updates reporting
• Action new recipe prioritization based on business and Chef needs
• Provide administrative support to the CS manager throughout each phase as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Formal culinary training or professional experience in the food and beverage industry with an emphasis on menu forecasting management is highly preferred
• Strong knowledge of global cuisines and ingredients, and large-scale food production - CookUnity operates multiple locations across the United States with different menus and chef concepts in each, around 800 menu items per week - will be highly advantageous

Benefits

• Get paid in USD, Crypto, Euro, ARS. Whatever your choice! We use Deel to make things easier for you!
• Work remotely: design the life that you want
• Enjoy 15 days of vacation each year from the start date
• Healthcare Benefit: Monthly stipend to use in your preferred healthcare provider
• 5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical
• 16 fully paid Argentinean holidays
• Family leave of 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
• Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
• Customize the benefits that suit your needs! Access a range of perks tailored to you, including learning opportunities, wellness memberships, delivery apps, and more through our comprehensive benefit platform
• Personalized English coach