Job Description

About Restaurant Brands International:

Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with more than $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and ~30,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands - BURGER KING, TIM HORTONS, POPEYES and FIREHOUSE SUBS. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees, and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

Role overview:

As a culinary product development leader - Tim Hortons Corporate Chef - you will lead the culinary development of Tim Hortons. You will work closely with the Global Culinary team and cross-functional teams, franchisee partners, and suppliers to lead NCE (new country entry) and NPD (new product development) activities. You will lead core menu items superiority and ensure individual brand product standards are upheld and protected to Tim Hortons identity, menu, and ingredient policies.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end new product development to support key global brand objectives.
• Lead creation of global core menu items and develop ingredients standards to ensure global brand consistency.
• Translate consumer insights into product innovations: inspire future pipeline as well translate consumer study results into product improvements.
• Work with cross-functional teams (Global Innovation, Marketing, Insights, regional teams) on consumer taste test planning and execution for new country entries and core menu items, including taking results of tests into recipe improvements, ensuring product superiority vs. competition.
• Work closely with Tim Hortons regional teams and Franchisee partners to support in local menu improvements.
• Support in regular training of both internal and external partners on the good practices and standards of Tim Hortons global food menu.
• Work with external partners to deliver culinary insights, trends, and inspirations to feed the brand pipeline with robust innovations.
• Cook Tim Hortons menu, new food products, and culinary-inspired food for product showings, leadership presentations, consumer research, company meetings, board meetings, training sessions, R&D evaluations, and franchisee committees.
• Coordinate and administrate project meetings, product shipments & deliveries and lead APAC test kitchen utilization and maintenance for all four brands of RBI.
• Attend manufacturing production runs to ensure that culinary standards and expectations of commercialized products are being met.
• Network with culinary trendsetters within the chef world, culinary organizations, and institutes and work with vendor partners to develop positive working relationships.

Your skills & experience:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in a commercial kitchen, the culinary certificate is a plus (from hospitality school, apprenticeship, bachelors diploma).
• Minimum 3 years of work experience (international or specific region) in food service (applicable channels: hotels, FSR, QSR, pubs, catering, industry, or institutional).
• 5+ years of experience in a corporate R&D environment with a proven track record in leading R&D projects.
• Associates Degree or Bachelors Degree (preferred) in culinary arts, nutrition, and/or food science, food technology.
• Strong concept and recipe development skills, being able to design superior products within a cost target, delivering healthy margins to franchisees.
• Creative approach to cooking & problem-solving.
• Experience with sandwiches and sweet baked goods are a plus.
• Fluent English, Mandarin will be an advantage.

Restaurant Brands International and all of its affiliated companies (collectively, RBI) are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers that do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, provincial or federal laws, rules, or regulations. RBI's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request.

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