At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high-quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy, and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.
The Role
We are looking for a Recipe Developer to join the Culinary Team in our Nordics HQ, in Copenhagen. As Recipe Developer, you will be responsible for the ideation and implementation of new recipes for the HelloFresh menu. The team operates on weekly recipe sprints. Working with customer preference learnings and within category guardrails you will be responsible for ideating, writing, creating and testing new HelloFresh recipes through an agile methodology.
Our ideal applicant is a foodie, creative, agile and process-driven, with experience in a food-related business. They have the ability to juggle multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously. They are able to think like a customer and change perspectives to effectively interpret business and consumer needs.
You will …
- Ideate new recipes: starting from existing guardrails, budget, performance data and a clear brief, you will create new concepts for our menu (approx. 5 new recipes per week). You will also ensure they can be realistically achieved, and will be enjoyed, by our customers regardless of their cooking skills.
- Write recipes: formulate recipe instructions, to ensure they adhere to internal style guides and methods, ensuring they are easy to understand and implement from a customer perspective.
- Cook recipes: Test cook new recipes on a weekly basis in our on-site test kitchen.
- Collaborate with the Recipe Testing team: have an ongoing dialogue with recipe testers, by handing over new concepts, and reworking recipes based on their feedback and observations.
- Understand customer feedback: every week, read recipe comments and insights, to gather insights on how to develop or rework recipes that fit with customers’ needs.
- Participate in tastings on new recipes, ingredients and cooking methods, giving feedback on their adherence to our current recipe offering.
- Utilize your recipe development insights and knowledge to own and execute on quarterly strategic initiative/s aimed at driving improvements to the recipe development process or supporting product initiatives from a culinary perspective.
- Please note - this role will include tasting and eating our recipes so will not be suitable for anyone with food intolerances, allergies, or dietary requirements.
You have …
- 2+ years of relevant experience plus a Culinary degree or a degree in Food, Nutrition or Sensory Sciences
- Good working knowledge of Excel/Google Sheets
- A collaborative attitude and are able to work well with diverse opinions and competing priorities
- Strong organizational skills with a proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders expectations
- Ability to be creative yet take full consideration of specific guardrails and restrictions.
- A flexible mindset and excitement to work in a fast-paced environment with constant change
- A self-starter and highly-organized mindset, getting tasks done with a high degree of excellence
- The ability to work in sprints, ensuring timely execution of your weekly tasks at a constant drumbeat, seeking alignment with other colleagues in the team
- Process-driven with an eager attitude towards improving operational efficiency
- Able to maintain consistent deadlines which ensuring complete accuracy across all projects and tasks
- Passionate about food and cooking
- Motivated by being part of an extremely fast-paced business
- Excellent command of the English language is a must. Nordic languages are a plus, but not a key requirement for the role
We offer…
- A diverse and vibrant international environment of 35+ different nationalities
- The chance to have a significant impact on one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe
- A significant discount on your weekly HelloFresh box or Factor_ meals
- Learning and development opportunities
- Subsidized healthy lunches everyday in our Copenhagen office
- Mental health resources through online subscriptions
- Monthly pension scheme including health insurance benefits
- Additional perks: Discounts for our neighboring gyms, company events and parties, fruit & snacks in the office and free Friday bar
Are you up for a challenge?
- Apply with your CV (In English please)
- If we see a match, you’ll have a call with one of our recruiters to share more about what you can bring to the team
- Are both sides still positive? Then we proceed to the assessment stage to assess key skills required for the job
- We will be conducting interviews on an ongoing basis and will close down the position once the successful candidate has been found.
About HelloFresh
We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers’ homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work!
At HelloFresh, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations, up to the point of undue hardship, to candidates at any stage, including to individuals with disabilities.
We want to adapt our processes and create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate our process. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with us in the application form.
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HelloFresh is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the application process, please reach out to us at:
- Europe: EUaccommodations@hellofresh.com.
- APAC: APACaccommodations@hellofresh.com
- United States: USCandidateAccommodations@hellofresh.com
- Canada: CAaccommodations@hellofresh.com