Job Description

As the lead prep cook for Taste of Home, you will oversee and manage the recipe prep operations, leading and mentoring the prep cook team to ensure daily requirements are met. Reporting to the Executive Culinary Director, youre a hands-on team leader who will curate grocery orders and prepare recipes to varying degrees of completion to support your colleagues on the Fast Track and Video teams. You re a critical utility player, responsible for preparing recipes that will be used across all food media products, from the website and video to books and magazines, in order to spotlight Taste of Home s culinary authority. About you: Driven by your passion to cook, create and inspire, you have a hunger for meaningful (and fun) work. A person with a diverse skill set and proven potential with the many facets required of this role, you are flexible with job duties and self-motivated to produce the best content possible. You are collaborative in nature and understand how to work with a team in a fast-paced environment to make content come to life across multiple channels. Being a part of a dynamic environment with others who share in your healthy obsession for all things food-related excites and delights you! Your day-to-day: You lead the interpretation of recipes and prep instructions, ensuring all prep work is done accurately and efficiently for both mise en place and fully finished recipes. You supervise and guide the prep cook team to ensure daily prepping needs for content creation are met. You oversee grocery orders and purchasing, ensuring that purchases are accurate and in ideal, camera-ready condition You monitor and manage grocery stock levels, coordinate with the team to replenish staples and ensure all ingredients are available and up to standard. You participate in a collaborative team that executes digital content (photography and video), meeting daily production goals. You utilize our collaborative web-based platform (Airtable) for production workflows as well as our proprietary recipe management system (RMS). You tackle assignments with direction from the Executive Culinary Director and work on multiple initiatives simultaneously. You have: Accredited Culinary Art degree or equivalent food industry experience. Previous test kitchen experience preferred or related cooking experience. Ability to prioritize and organize, consistently meeting deadlines and catching all the details whether working independently or as part of a team. Effective communication skills; comfortable accepting and giving constructive feedback in a collaborative environment with a commitment to supporting an evolving, dynamic team. Experience with content production and digital asset management tools such as Airtable as well as Microsoft Excel.