Lead Prep Cook – Taste of Home
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Full Time
India| Digital Editorial
Experienced
About us:
TMB (Trusted Media Brands) is the world's leading community-driven entertainment company. Our portfolio of leading brands that includes FailArmy, Family Handyman, People Are Awesome, Reader’s Digest, Taste of Home, The Healthy, The Pet Collective, and Birds and Blooms, is powered by content that’s inspired and created by our fans. Engaging more than 200 million consumers worldwide, our content — available across streaming TV, social media, web, and print — sparks curiosity, fuels laughter, and inspires people to live big, full, fantastic lives. Learn more about our brands, our data-driven marketing solutions, our award-winning licensing services, and much more at Trusted Media Brands.
Location: Gurgaon, India
Working Hours: This is a full-time office-critical role based in our Gurgaon culinary studio. To optimize collaboration with your American colleagues, your hours will be afternoon to evening, with 2-3 overlapping hours with U.S. Central Standard Time (CST).
About the role:
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, you're 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:
Brand-new to TMB, this team is high-performing, fast-paced, dynamic and designed to accommodate business growth needs and hit ambitious goals. This role and team are highly collaborative, working seamlessly with other teams around the business. Like their Taste of Home culinary colleagues in the U.S., members of this team celebrate a fun, supportive and friendly culture, which allows everyone to thrive while working across continents.
Our Benefits:
We value our people and offer a collaborative and engaging culture. As a Trusted Media Brands employee, you will enjoy work/life balance, generous time off and comprehensive benefits and programs. Learn more about what life is like working at Trusted Media Brands at https://www.trustedmediabrands.com/careers/.
India specific benefits:
Trusted Media Brands embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
This role is offered by TMB through Jukin Media India Private Limited
TMB (Trusted Media Brands) is the world's leading community-driven entertainment company. Our portfolio of leading brands that includes FailArmy, Family Handyman, People Are Awesome, Reader’s Digest, Taste of Home, The Healthy, The Pet Collective, and Birds and Blooms, is powered by content that’s inspired and created by our fans. Engaging more than 200 million consumers worldwide, our content — available across streaming TV, social media, web, and print — sparks curiosity, fuels laughter, and inspires people to live big, full, fantastic lives. Learn more about our brands, our data-driven marketing solutions, our award-winning licensing services, and much more at Trusted Media Brands.
Location: Gurgaon, India
Working Hours: This is a full-time office-critical role based in our Gurgaon culinary studio. To optimize collaboration with your American colleagues, your hours will be afternoon to evening, with 2-3 overlapping hours with U.S. Central Standard Time (CST).
About the role:
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, you're 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.
- 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.
Brand-new to TMB, this team is high-performing, fast-paced, dynamic and designed to accommodate business growth needs and hit ambitious goals. This role and team are highly collaborative, working seamlessly with other teams around the business. Like their Taste of Home culinary colleagues in the U.S., members of this team celebrate a fun, supportive and friendly culture, which allows everyone to thrive while working across continents.
Our Benefits:
We value our people and offer a collaborative and engaging culture. As a Trusted Media Brands employee, you will enjoy work/life balance, generous time off and comprehensive benefits and programs. Learn more about what life is like working at Trusted Media Brands at https://www.trustedmediabrands.com/careers/.
India specific benefits:
- Comprehensive Time Off policies
- Maternity and Paternity Time off
- Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits including access to OPD consultations*, Gym/Yoga studios, Teleconsultation/Telemedicine*
- Access to Mental Health Reimbursement
- Annual Sport reimbursement and home office reimbursement
Trusted Media Brands embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
This role is offered by TMB through Jukin Media India Private Limited
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