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California, United States

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Leading new market entry, product development and commercialization of our core menu items and iconic products globally. Working cross functionally with supply chain, operations, marketing, quality assurance, and training to establish global brand standards and ensure one brand one voice. Sharing best practices with both international and domestic to deliver robust results for the business. Stepping in to be the product development lead for Europe and onboarding of new teammate. Establishing new standards and processes to enable future growth in market and team.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Leading product development, ingredient commercialization, scale up, and troubleshooting from our global headquarters. Working cross functionally with marketing, operations, supply chain, quality assurance, engineering, and finance to drive results in field with the common goal of one brand voice. Deliver exciting product innovation to our markets outside the US through leveraging both new and current suppliers. Assist with new market entry, supplier selection, and setting up brand standards.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Leading scale up and alternate supplier approval process across all menu categories for new ingredients for national launch or regional testing based off current marketing calendar; Collaborating cross functionally with operations, marketing, product development, supply chain, and quality assurance to ensure product and timeline success; Develop robust quality assurance program per product including critical control points, key product attributes, environmental & microbiological testing program with input from suppliers, quality assurance, our microbiologist, and product development team; Identify new supplier capabilities and leverage with product development to drive innovation for the brand.

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Working with international markets focusing on new product development, equipment testing, and marketing strategies; Currently developing Innovation wish list, and product development pipeline support for certain international markets; Collaborating with Consumer Insights on Innovation/Trend and New Product development newsletter for both our global and domestic team; Assisted HR with hiring and interview process to bring the best candidates for our team through networking with IFT.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Working with developed and emerging African markets over 16 different countries; Focusing on Innovation pipeline, pantry, and calendar for 2017/2018 on specific menu categories; Leading cross functional teams to ensure success of new product development, testing, and consumer research validation; Established new QA standards for poultry supplier reducing waste from fifty to less than one percent through refining techniques and audits with QA team; Sharing brand standard know how to build better products and empower team to achieve great results.

Responsible for product formulation and recipe development in relation to new concepts for both restaurants and consumer packaged goods based on trends, matching, and consumer needs; Developed innovative branded/private labeled products working as a liaison between marketing, sales, and manufacturing; Supports manufacturing with ingredient troubleshooting/cost optimizing/labeling and ingredient consolidation.

Responsible for half of the menu preparation; proficient at all stations including sauté, grill, expo, and pantry; Creatively responsible for pastry/desert items as well as the daily specials and sauté portion of the menu; Focused on bringing food costs in line and improving menu items.

Created, rotated, and stocked all scratch recipes for dressings, soups, sauces, side dishes as well as receiving produce, meats, and seafood for the executive chef.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Culinary Arts & Science

Associate'S Degree, Culinary Arts/Chef Training

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