Keittiömestari Valio Aimo Koekeittiö

Valio Aimo Koekeittiö, Keittiömestari, Helsinki

Valio Aimo needs a new colleague – could it be you?

We are looking for an experienced Keittiömestari with a focus on commercial Horeca for the Valio Aimo test kitchen! Valio Aimo serves restaurants, hotels, catering and hospitality services, bakeries, as well as public administration and industrial customers throughout Finland. Valio Aimo offers a wide range of main course products from its own brand and over 800 suppliers, alongside reliable logistics as a side dish, and solutions as services for dessert. Aimo strives to be professional, flexible, relaxed, approachable, and appreciative – these factors guide the Aimo culture.

With us, you will get to develop tomorrow's customer experiences, solutions, and successful products for our customers, and grow the sales of our classics.

We are seeking a Keittiömestari for a permanent position in our test kitchen team, focusing on commercial Horeca.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Working closely with customers: various development projects and solution-oriented consultative sales are at the core of your work.
• Development work in cooperation with our customers and implementing restaurant kitchen expertise into customer solutions are central to your tasks.

What We're Looking For

• Relevant education (e.g., restaurant chef + restonomist).
• Long-term work experience, solution-oriented approach, and deep understanding of restaurant kitchens.
• Excellent interaction, training, and presentation skills, especially in customer work.
• A driver's license and willingness to travel within Finland.
• Ability to customer-centrically lead projects and produce content for our various channels, such as recipes, food photos, and videos.
• Systematic, organized, and proactive approach to work.
• Understanding of food industry processes.
• Basic Jamix knowledge.
• Good Finnish language skills are required; Swedish and English language skills are considered an asset.

If you have courage, ambition, and a challenge-averse attitude, you could be the newest addition to our team!

Our Team and Benefits

Our test kitchen team consists of seasoned kitchen and bakery professionals whose work is based on solution-orientation for our customers. The person we are looking for will complement our test kitchen team through their specialized expertise, especially in commercial Horeca customers. You will also have access to a top-equipped test kitchen and exceptionally pleasant colleagues to support your success. We also offer excellent opportunities to develop and deepen your professional expertise.

We offer opportunities at an internationally growing, future-oriented, and Finnish-loved food company. Our office is located in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki, and we currently work in a flexible hybrid model. Our operations are guided by responsible and ethical values that are easy to identify with: for us, responsibility means working to improve the well-being of the environment, society, people, and animals. You will also receive the employee benefits of a large Finnish company.

At Valio, we are united by a desire to work in service of a better life. Every Valio employee's contribution is important. We invest in the expertise of our supervisors, people-oriented leadership, and the development of team cooperation. We want every Valio employee to have a clear understanding of their tasks and goals, and the opportunity to influence their own work and expertise.

Key skills/competency

• Horeca
• Customer Interaction
• Product Development
• Consulting
• Project Management
• Recipe Creation
• Content Production
• Food Industry Knowledge
• Training
• Presentation Skills