About the role: What's in the Box

As a Recipe Developer at HelloFresh, you would be at the heart of the product, creating delicious innovative recipes and managing the process through meticulous planning, tracking, and various testing stages. The role requires experience in cooking and writing recipes, combined with a strong aptitude for costing and hitting critical budgetary targets. Your ultimate mission is to be agile and data-driven, delivering flawless, cost-effective recipes every time to help customers discover the joy of cooking.

What you’ll do: The Recipe

Create, cost, write and cook delicious recipes that bring recipe briefs to life.
Brainstorm innovative recipe ideas and collaborate with the wider team to ensure every dish meets our high quality standards and evolving customer demands.
Manage your development ingredients within the HelloFresh kitchen, ensuring everything is sourced and ready for testing.
Maintain a gold-standard kitchen environment, overseeing the cleanliness, organization, and efficient use of ingredients.
Own your weekly deadlines, ensuring every recipe is delivered on time with 100% accuracy.
Review and edit recipes meticulously to ensure all ordering data, ingredient specs, and cooking instructions are flawless.
Iterate on recipe designs by incorporating internal testing feedback and external customer insights.
Analyze and respond to weekly customer feedback, using these insights to rework and refine recipes to guarantee maximum customer satisfaction.

What you’ll bring: The Ingredients

A strong culinary background and a passion for food, whether through professional kitchen experience, a culinary degree, or a proven track record in food media or product development.
A minimum of 1 year of culinary experience with demonstrable evidence of recipe creation/testing/development/writing.
Great organisational and communication skills with the ability to meet time-sensitive deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to spot a typo in a recipe or a missing gram of seasoning from a mile away.
Teamwork: proven ability to work effectively within a team and across teams, confident in offering constructive criticism to other members of the team in group recipe discussions.
Proficiency in Google Workspace and a quick ability to learn internal CMS and database tools.
Good to have: specialised cuisine knowledge and/or diploma in a food-related field.

What you will get in return

● 70% off HelloFresh or Green Chef boxes ● Company pension scheme ● Gym membership ● Bupa private medical insurance (including dental & family cover options) ● Mental health first aiders and an employee assistance programme ● Dog friendly office! (London site only) ● Nursery support scheme ● Cycle to work scheme ● Group Life Assurance

Location: The HelloFresh Farm, 60 Worship Street, EC2A 2EZ, London

Shifts: Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm, based in the office Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. There may be times where you'll need to be flexible to come into the office when needed.

To be considered for this role, you’ll need to have the independent right to work in the UK, as we're unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship at this time.

Hybrid Working Policy We offer a hybrid working policy for eligible roles, allowing flexibility to work from home and in the office. For more details on eligibility and how this applies to the role you're applying for, please consult with your recruiter.

Next steps: Your application will be reviewed and if successful, a member of the Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch within 2 weeks.

You are required to cooperate with HelloFresh in all health and safety matters. You are responsible for ensuring you take reasonable care of your own health, and safety as well as others who may be affected by the work activities you undertake. You must report incidents immediately and actively raise health and safety-related concerns to your Line Manager. As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and secure environment, we will process Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks to the successful individual. Failure to disclose relevant information at application or throughout the process could affect your employment with the company.

If you are currently a HelloFresh employee, please make sure you have discussed your application with your Line Manager.