.**Summary**:**Responsibilities**:- Management and supervision of multiple Culinary roles within the team, driving collaboration and communication while ensuring KPI's are achieved or exceeded.- Responsible for goal setting and maintaining accountability with direct reports through timely feedback along with mid-year, and end of year reviews.- Support the Director role with clear communication of team objectives and corresponding plans to achieve them.- Adherence to budget and management of expenses- Ability to conduct training exercises based on company-based programs as well as day to day opportunities.- Culinary Account Management to identify and execute business opportunities through collaboration with key teams and other supplier partners.- Active leadership in customer account planning through the lens of Culinary- Leveraging relationships to drive new acquisition- Collaboration with cross functional team members to drive opportunities across various other segments.- Culinary Consultation: Use culinary techniques in conjunction with innovation technologies in flavor and texture to plan, guide, and collaborate with R&D Scientists in development of concepts and products (example: Gold standard prototype development, plate presentation, product preparation, ingredient selection, paper concept development) based on daily requests and/or Account initiatives.- Customer Focus: Chef will serve as the Culinary point of connection with an intimate knowledge of customer product offerings, capabilities, and processes. Responsibilities rely heavily on trust and ability to build strong relationships with key customer contacts.- Cultivate a Culinary Ecosystem: Strengthen Griffith Foods' position and deliver value in collaboration with food and innovation partners to strengthen Griffith Foods' position and deliver value. Develops and maintains strategic relationships with new and existing accounts.- Keeps up to date on culinary skills and maintains memberships to key culinary organizations such as Guild, WACS, RCA and/or ACF. Shares feedback with the North American Kitchen, direct supervisor, and GCC to share best practices.- CRM platform: Responsible for the use of culinary techniques and expertise to plan, lead and execute culinary aspects of business opportunities and update CRM platform.- Creative Ideation Leadership: Working as part of a cross-functional team the chef will lead the ideation, development, coordination, and execution of product-based presentations that showcase culinary innovation and business solutions.- Health and Nutrition Champion: leads the creative development of delicious new products in the H&N category leveraging the latest nutritional health trends or other insights.- Culinary Trends: Collaborate with Marketing and Consumer Insights teams to identify, apply, and communicate culinary trends to daily business activities or initiatives