Executive Development Chef

What happens when a retailer stops seeing you as a supplier and starts seeing you as a trusted innovation partner?

That's the position this role is designed to build.

We're looking for a senior culinary professional who is as comfortable influencing a retailer's innovation agenda as they are creating the concepts behind it.

Working alongside one of the UK's largest retailers, you'll play a central role in shaping future product direction, identifying new opportunities and strengthening a relationship that sits at the heart of the business. Rather than spreading your focus across multiple customers, you'll have the opportunity to build genuine depth, becoming a trusted voice within a strategically important partnership and helping influence the future direction of the category.

This is a highly visible role that combines culinary expertise, commercial awareness and consumer insight. You'll work closely with customer teams to uncover opportunities, develop compelling concepts and create products that customers don't yet know they need. From leading tastings and presenting innovation concepts through to building credibility with senior stakeholders, you'll be at the forefront of turning ideas into commercial success.

The scope extends far beyond recipe development. You'll work closely with commercial, technical, process and development teams, acting as the bridge between customer ambition and manufacturing capability. You'll have the freedom to think beyond the brief, creating compelling concepts that open new opportunities and strengthen long-term customer partnerships.

We're looking for someone who enjoys customer interaction as much as time in the kitchen. Someone who can combine creativity with commercial thinking, challenge conventional approaches and build the kind of relationships that create lasting influence.

For the right person, this is an opportunity to become a recognised culinary figure within a major food business and play a leading role in one of its most important customer relationships. The products you help create will matter, but the relationships, influence and long-term impact you build will matter even more.

You'll be joining a business with genuine ambition, significant investment and a clear appetite for innovation. The platform is already there; the opportunity now is to help shape what comes next.

Based in Scotland with regular travel to customer and business locations.

If you're looking for a role where your ideas can genuinely influence category direction, customer strategy and long-term business growth, we'd be keen to have a conversation.