Commercial Chef

About the Role

Almarai is seeking a Commercial Chef to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves integrating advanced baking and culinary expertise with strong commercial understanding to drive product innovation, enhance customer satisfaction, and contribute to business growth. The Commercial Chef ensures that all bakery offerings meet high-quality standards while aligning with commercial objectives, market demands, and profitability targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of new bakery products by applying technical expertise in ingredients, equipment, and processes, in line with market trends and customer preferences, to deliver commercially viable and innovative SKUs that support sales growth.
• Conduct production trials and technical validations, using standard procedures and collaboration with the operations team, to ensure that product prototypes can be scaled efficiently for full manufacturing runs without compromising quality.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including product specifications, ingredient lists, supplier briefs, and bills of materials, using internal systems and QA protocols, to support traceability, compliance, and production accuracy.
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing teams to deliver technical product presentations, customer demos, and sampling sessions, in alignment with commercial plans, to enhance customer engagement and secure new business.

Experience Required

Candidates should possess 6-10 years of relevant experience in a commercial culinary or baking environment.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh.