# Head of Menu Innovation

**Company**: Pret
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Hospitality
**Industry**: Hospitality

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## Description

We're looking for a creative and process-driven Head of Menu Innovation to lead the development team. You will create a market-leading range of Pret favourites and rotating seasonal innovations, to win market share and drive transaction growth.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Team Leadership: Lead the development team through a customer-focused innovation development process, creating delicious and commercially viable recipes.

- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with other key business areas such as Technical, Commercial, Marketing, ESG, Launch and Operations.

- Innovation: Identify emerging trends and new ideas, evolving them to become viable Pret products.

- Process Management: Own the end-to-end menu delivery process from concept approval through to successful launch.

- Menu Development: Lead the planning and delivery of all seasonal and promotional menu launches.

**Experience and Skills:**

- Project Management: Essential experience managing multiple critical pathways, multiple stakeholders and using multiple data sources.

- Sector Experience: Understanding of marketing communications within QSR, fast-casual dining, FMCG or high-street retail.

- A True Innovator: Fluent in market trends and have a good understanding of the competitive market.

- Systems Management: Confident with managing data across multiple systems.

- Commercial Acumen: Able to innovate with a commercial mindset, presenting viable products that will drive sales growth.

- Resilient and Agile: Ability to react at pace and take feedback constructively and positively.

**Life at Pret:**

- Individual ways to grow: Fully funded professional qualifications, leadership development and informal and formal mentoring.

- Diversity & belonging: Everyone's welcome at Pret – you'll be valued for who you are and supported to feel confident in yourself and your skills.

- Pace & variety: Build a diverse skillset, meet some new people and learn.

- Community & purpose: Work together to create positive change through the Pret Foundation.

**The Perks:**

- A Gold Card: Food and drinks on us when you're in the office, 5 free drinks a day and 50% off everything else.

- 33-38 days of annual leave.

- Free private medical aid cover.

- 4-5% pension contribution.

- Life assurance at 3x your annual salary.

- Loyalty awards to celebrate every 5 years you're with us.

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management
- Sector Experience
- Innovation
- Systems Management
- Commercial Acumen
- Resilience

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