R&D Innovations Chef for Baked Goods & Desert Manufacturer

You’re an incredibly creative person and your favourite roles you’ve had in your career have been when you’ve been given the freedom to be unleashed and try out your weird, unique & wonderful ideas. 

You’re also “right-brained” in that you enjoy solving problems, and you think commercially. You understand that making something delicious is only half the battle - it has to be financially viable & able to be produced at scale. 

You enjoy taking an idea from a rough concept all the way through to reality and nothing excites you more than seeing something you created become a real product.

You might be:  

• a chef who's tired of service.
• a baker who's sick of producing the same products every day.
• a food technologist who misses the creative side of food.
• Or maybe you once had your own bakery and loved developing products more than running the business.

Whatever your background, what matters most is that you genuinely love creating.

This role is with Madhouse Bakehouse - a growing food manufacturer producing products for major brands, foodservice customers and commercial partners across Australia.

They're looking for someone to help create the next exciting & delicious items.

You'll spend your days developing new baked goods, desserts and food concepts. Testing, tweaking & refining.

Patience is important - this isn't the instant gratification of a commercial kitchen where you finish 100 meals and go home. Sometimes you'll spend a month working through revisions before you finally nail it.

The role is incredibly creative, but it also requires commercial thinking. Many people can create something delicious - the challenge is creating something delicious, commercially viable and capable of being produced at scale.

You'll need to think about:

• Ingredient costs
• Production processes
• Purchasing requirements
• Manufacturing constraints
• Product margins
• Customer requirements/desires

A successful product launch can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue. The business is growing quickly, there are more opportunities than the current team can keep up with, and innovation is one of the biggest drivers of that growth.

What makes this role so exciting is the impact. You'll be joining a business that is hungry, ambitious and constantly looking for the next opportunity. Not one that's sitting still - they move fast and they’re great at what they do. 

The role is full-time, 8am-4pm & based on-site in Chullora.

If you're someone who gets genuinely excited about food trends, recipe development, baked goods and bringing new products to life - please apply now.