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Culinary Specialist – New York

Marquee Brands is seeking an ambitious self-starter, with impeccable culinary skills, a rich background in culinary education, content creation, and programming, Food and Beverage experience, exceptional organizational habits and flawless time management skills, to join its culinary team as a Culinary Specialist for the Sur la Table brands.

Marquee Brands

Marquee owns and manages a portfolio of established global brands across consumer products and channels from luxury goods to sports and active apparel. Marquee's team of professionals is focused on a commitment to drive organic growth through natural brand extensions, impactful marketing and direct consumer engagement. Our promise is to ensure our brands continue their storied success through relevant product, expanded retail distribution, and international growth all while continuing to be true to their founding message and origin.

Sur La Table Brand

Sur la Table started with a simple idea: Make good food. Invite People. Do it daily. For over 50 years Sur La Table has partnered with the world's best chefs and kitchen brands to bring customers trusted tools to make delicious memories. Today Sur La Table offers an unmatched assortment of authentic cookware and serving pieces from around the world and has taken culinary education to the next level through in-store and online education helping the cook at home to the chef in the restaurant create their best food experience. Make More Gather Often.

Here's what you will do here

Content:

• Ensure accuracy of recipe ingredients and instructions.
• Create recipe packets and instructional materials for Sur La Tables instore and online classes, Averaging 50 classes monthly.
• Ability to articulate difficult techniques in a written format.
• Saving materials to both network and cloud based locations.
• Proofread and edit existing recipes and curriculum as needed according to style guides and Sur La Table quality standards.
• Ensure on time execution and delivery of culinary assets to internal and licensee partners.
• Calculates instore recipe cost using existing tool.

Development & Testing:

• Contribute culinary subject matter knowledge to inform future class and brand recipe needs.
• Shop, prep, and conduct tastings with team members.
• Assist with trend research forecasting and competitor analysis to aid in the development of future classes.
• Collaborate with Culinary Director to determine recipe & product testing and development needs.

Presentation & Teaching:

• Conduct instore and online class audits quarterly, or as needed.
• Strong presentation and teaching skills.

Organizing & Archiving:

• Continuation of document migration to new network locations.
• Continuation of archiving and indexing past and current recipes into library folders.
• Update a master class index on a regular basis.
• Captures and publishes accurate meeting notes. Assists with content hand offs as needed.

Collaboration:

• Participate in comp shopping.
• Assist with and provide feedback on product audits and tastings.
• Collaborate and communicate clearly with a variety of licensee partners.
• Collaborate with Culinary Director on recipe usage for merchandising, packaging, and marketing needs.

Ability to Travel:

• Possibilities include but are not limited to trade shows, industry events and off-site demonstrations.
• Act as an ambassador for the brand to inspire those who love to cook, entertain, and eat well.

This job is for you if

• Have a passion for teaching people how to cook and educating them on a variety of cuisines and techniques
• Exceptional organizational, interpersonal, communication and time management skills
• Depth of knowledge in both culinary arts and baking and pastry.
• Have varied professional culinary experience and want to put it all to use for a heritage brand.
• Self-starter who likes to work hard, can prioritize, multi-task and focus under pressure

You're going to need this to carry out this job

• Restaurant and food media (magazine, television, cookbooks) experience
• Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Sharepoint) proficiency
• Bachelor's degree, related work experience considered in lieu of education
• Recipe writing and testing experience
• 2+ years creating teaching aids or run of show experience
• Culinary degree
• Ability to move about the test kitchen organizing, preparing/testing recipes and merchandise for an extended period (up to 8 hours) of time.
• 2+ years of test kitchen experience
• Publishing tools, DAM, and project management tools experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to lift and/or move merchandise and/or kitchen equipment weighing up to 35lbs

Salary Range $67k-$72k

Marquee Brands Benefits and Perks

• Competitive salary, and bonus structure
• 11 Paid Holidays: In addition to Paid vacation.
• Healthcare Benefits including dental and vision
• Pet Insurance
• Action Days - two (2) fully paid "Marquee In Action" days each calendar year to dedicate your time to a charity or cause of your choice.
• You'll enjoy coming to work because we have a refreshing company culture that is open, entrepreneurial and fun.
• Flexible spending account (FSA) or health savings account (HSA)
• Life insurance
• Generous Vacation and Leave Policies

This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended at anytime at the sole discretion of the Employer

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.