Burger King Culinary

**About Restaurant Brands International**:
Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with more than $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 28,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands - TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI working towards its goal of improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

**Job Overview**:
Burger King has been flame grilling since 1954 and is nowadays one of the most loved restaurant brands globally. Burger King stands for a great taste made of real ingredients, generosity, flame grilling, and setting trends through innovation. Burger King leads innovation in the plant-based category, grows its footprint in the premium segment, and develops fast digital sales channels, loyalty, and guest engagement. Great guest experience is central to all our efforts, which includes ensuring that our favorite products offer superior taste vs main competitors.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Culinary & Commercialization Lead of regional innovation and renovation projects - develop products superior in taste while cost competitive with a focus on the excellence of core portfolio.
- Translate consumer insights into designing new winning products and ingredients.
- Collaborate closely with RBI regional teams, BK franchisee teams, and global suppliers to be close to business and co-lead pipeline creation.
- Prepare prototypes for consumer tests and internal demonstrations, and run taste tests with suppliers and agency providers.
- Leverage and expand suppliers' chef network
- bring new insights, organize ideation sessions and supplier innovation days
- Present innovation project progress to RBI Leadership, ensuring alignment.
- Organize online and offline innovation ideation and pipeline-building meetings.
- Contribute to delivering against Burger King sustainability targets through leading food innovation projects in this area.
- Lead test kitchen agenda and organization with Popeyes and Tim Hortons teams.

**Required Skills**:

- 3 + years of experience working in food service culinary lead role with a proven record of delivering successful innovations; a culinary certificate is a plus (from hospitality school, apprenticeship, bachelor's diploma)
- Bachelor's degree in culinary arts, nutrition, and/or food science, food technology, or a related field
- Experience in a corporate R&D environment with a proven track record in leading projects, preferred industries: QSR or FMCG
- Experience using commercial kitchen equipment and modern cooking technology
- Fluent in English

**Key competencies**:

- Must demonstrate a passion for food, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work under time pressure
- Creative approach to cooking & problem solving
- innovation mindset
- Strong recipe development skills, being able to design superior products within a cost target, delivering healthy margins to franchisees
- Strong written/verbal communication and presentation skills
- Work well in a collaborative team environment** **while** **able to work independently and in an effective manner
- Ability to quickly adapt in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment
- Restaurant Brands International and all of its affiliated companies (collectively, RBI) are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers that do not discriminate based on race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, provincial or federal laws, rules, or regulations. RBI's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request._