{"id":3769033,"url":"https://alion.io/job/aramark-culinary-development-chef-west","title":"Culinary Development Chef - West","company":{"id":2462,"name":"Aramark","domain":"aramark.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/aramark","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":null},"role":"Hospitality","role_family":"Hospitality","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Galway, Ireland"],"countries":["IE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-04T16:13:35Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-04","last_verified_at":"2026-11-07T22:04:35Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Regional Development Chef - West of Ireland\nAramark is seeking a passionate and innovative Regional Development Chef to drive culinary excellence, food innovation, quality, and commercial performance across our operations in the West of Ireland.\nWorking closely with operational teams, Executive Chefs, and culinary leadership, you will develop and deliver innovative, relevant, and commercially successful food concepts that enhance the guest experience, drive customer satisfaction, and support business growth.\nThis is a highly visible, hands-on role that combines culinary creativity with strong operational expertise. You will lead menu development initiatives, identify emerging food trends, support culinary standards, and ensure food offers remain fresh, exciting, and commercially viable across the region.\nAs a key ambassador for the Aramark culinary function, you will work alongside site teams to raise standards, develop culinary talent, and promote a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. Success in this role requires the ability to balance chef-led creativity with commercial focus, ensuring exceptional food experiences while delivering profitable growth.\nThis is an exciting opportunity for an experienced chef who is passionate about food, enjoys influencing teams, and thrives on bringing new ideas to life in a fast-paced and diverse foodservice environment.\n Key Responsibilities\nCulinary Development & Innovation\nLead the development of innovative, relevant, and commercially viable menus and food concepts across the region.\nIdentify emerging food, consumer, and hospitality trends and translate them into practical food solutions.\nDevelop recipes, dishes, and concepts that can be successfully implemented across multiple locations and formats.\nSupport new business opportunities, tenders, client presentations, and mobilisation projects.\nWork closely with suppliers and culinary partners to identify new products and innovation opportunities.\nCulinary Excellence & Standards\nDrive consistency, quality, and culinary standards across all locations within the region.\nSupport Executive Chefs and site teams in delivering exceptional food experiences.\nDevelop and implement recipes, specifications, presentation standards, and best-practice guidelines.\nConduct regular culinary reviews and support sites in improving food quality and execution. Champion seasonal, local, sustainable, and responsibly sourced ingredients.\nCommercial Performance\nSupport the delivery of profitable food offers through effective menu engineering and recipe development.\nDrive food cost awareness, yield management, portion control, and waste reduction.\nIdentify opportunities to improve product mix, margin, and overall commercial performance.\nDevelop food solutions that balance quality, guest appeal, operational practicality, and profitability.\nOperational Support\nProvide hands-on culinary support to operational teams across the region.\nSupport new site openings, major events, menu launches, and business development projects.\nWork collaboratively with Operations Directors, Executive Chefs, and site leadership teams.\nEnsure new food concepts are practical, scalable, and operationally achievable.\nPeople & Culinary Development\nCoach, mentor, and inspire chefs across the region.\nSupport the development of emerging culinary talent.\nDeliver culinary training, demonstrations, workshops, and development sessions.\nShare best practice and encourage creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.\nAct as a visible culinary ambassador and role model within the business.\nSustainability, Nutrition & Wellbeing\nSupport the development of sustainable and responsible food practices.\nChampion initiatives focused on reducing food waste and improving sustainable sourcing.\nWork collaboratively with dietetics, nutrition, and sustainability teams to develop balanced and inclusive food offers.\nSupport the delivery of health and wellbeing initiatives across the region.\n Key Skills & Experience\nProven experience as an Executive Chef, Development Chef, Head Chef, or senior culinary leader.\nStrong background in high-volume foodservice, hospitality, retail, events, or contract catering.\nDemonstrated experience in menu development, food innovation, and concept creation.\nStrong commercial understanding, including food cost, menu engineering, yield, and margin management.\nExcellent knowledge of current food trends and consumer preferences.\nStrong presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.\nAbility to influence, coach, and inspire culinary and operational teams.\nHighly organised, self-motivated, and capable of managing multiple projects across a large geographical region.\nA genuine passion for food, innovation, quality, and developing people.\n Key Measures of Success\nImproved culinary quality and consistency across the region.\nSuccessful development and implementation of new menus and food concepts.\nPositive commercial impact through improved margin, yield, and menu performance.\nStrong guest and client feedback.\nIncreased culinary capability and engagement within regional teams.\nSuccessful support of new business, mobilisations, and strategic projects.\nDelivery of sustainability, nutrition, and food innovation objectives.\nAbout Aramark\nAramark Ireland is a leader in food, facilities, and workplace services, supporting clients across healthcare, education, business, and the public sector. With over 40 years in Ireland and more than 8,000 colleagues across Ireland and Northern Ireland, we are committed to service excellence, innovation, sustainability, and creating meaningful experiences for our clients, colleagues, and communities.\nAramark is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all candidates.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5810,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Catering & Food Services","Facilities Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-04T21:03:08Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":85,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.846,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/aramark-culinary-development-chef-west","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/aramark-culinary-development-chef-west.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T00:57:46Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2102,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2462},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2462"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Faramark-culinary-development-chef-west"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Faramark-culinary-development-chef-west"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Faramark-culinary-development-chef-west"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/aramark-culinary-development-chef-west\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Faramark-culinary-development-chef-west"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3769033}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"aramark.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3769033},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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