Menu Specialist
Shamrock Foods Company

Job Info

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The role of the Menu Specialist entails the development and upkeep of Shamrock Foods' Menu Program. This web-based program offers customers a comprehensive suite of cycle and service menus, recipes, and supplementary resources designed to optimize the efficacy of their foodservice operation. The program includes provisions for nutritional analysis and labeling, further enhancing its utility and compliance with industry standards.

Essential Duties:

• Facilitate menu creation and development across various categories including regional, holiday, seasonal, cycle, and customized per-resident-day (PRD) menus, adhering to ADA requirements.
• Develop and refine recipes, including therapeutic diets, while ensuring accurate allergen and nutritional information.
• Maintain the menu ingredient database by meticulously updating nutrition information, managing item substitutions, and streamlining item and recipe specifications.
• Assist in content management, ongoing maintenance, and troubleshooting technical issues in all menu-related areas including cycle and service menus, ordering platforms, purchasing systems, reports generation, and resident and inventory management.
• Provide exemplary customer support and technical assistance to menu customers, encompassing menu customization, ordering processes, and resident and inventory management.
• Create and update end-user training materials to ensure clarity and effectiveness.
• Demonstrate the benefits and suitability of the program to potential customers.
• Conduct comprehensive in-person or virtual end-user menu program training sessions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.
• Proficiency in rapidly acquiring system knowledge and awareness.
• Strong proficiency in culinary math skills including calculating cost yields, nutrition yields, portion sizing of recipes, and measurement conversions.
• Knowledge in clinical nutrition and/or food distribution is desirable.
• Demonstrated quantitative and analytical skills with the ability to drive team results and facilitate change management.
• Ability to quickly develop a strong understanding of products within assigned categories.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• May require up to 25% travel.

Starting compensation of $65,000 per year.

Shamrock anticipates closing the application window for this job opportunity on or before December 31, 2024.

Corporate Summary:

At Shamrock Foods Company, people come first - our associates, our customers, and the families we serve across the nation. A privately held, family-owned and -operated Forbes 500 company, Shamrock is an innovator in the food industry and has been since being founded in Arizona in 1922.

Our Mission: At Shamrock Foods Company, we live by our founding family's motto to "treat associates like family and customers like friends."

Why work for us?

Benefits are a major part of your overall compensation, and we believe offering them at an affordable cost is not only the right thing to do, but it helps keep you and your family healthy. That's why Shamrock Foods pays for the majority of your health insurance, allowing you to take home more of your paycheck. And it doesn't stop there - our associates also enjoy additional benefits such as 401(k) Savings Plan, Profit Sharing, Paid Time Off, as well as our incredible growth opportunities, continued education, wellness programs.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Shamrock Foods Co all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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