Recipe Developer (f/m/x)

HelloFresh is looking for a creative Recipe Developer to join its dynamic and passionate team in Amsterdam on a six-month fixed-term contract to cover a maternity leave.

In this role, you will develop new recipes and improve existing favorites while balancing nutritional guidelines, cost targets, and concept definitions. You will work across the full culinary process, from ideation to test-cooking and validation, in close collaboration with Editorial, Ingredient, and Procurement teams to ensure the highest product quality.

The role: What's in the Box

• Develop new recipes while considering customer preferences, variety, nutritional values, ease of cooking, and seasonality.
• Test recipes in the kitchen and ensure they are complete before adding them to the recipe pool for menu planning.
• Adjust existing recipes based on weekly customer feedback to continually improve them.
• Check all recipes going into the box, ensuring ingredient lists are correct, text is accurate, and instructions are simple to understand.
• Create weekly recipe variants by swapping elements of existing recipes to offer more choice and variety.
• Approximately once per quarter, take part in an on-call weekend shift to support Production teams and minimize the customer impact of last-minute issues.
• Support various Culinary projects, from analyzing the performance of specific recipe concepts to aligning on global recipes with recipe developers from other HelloFresh markets.

What you’ll bring: The Ingredients

• A love for food, cooking, and quality ingredients.
• Creativity combined with the ability to make recipes easy for customers to understand.
• Enjoyment of spending time in the kitchen and creating delicious meals.
• A data-driven and customer-centric mindset, with the customer always at the center of your work.
• Qualified dietitian status is a plus.
• Experience with Excel or Google Sheets.
• Fluency in written and spoken English; knowledge of Dutch is a plus.
• You will spend a maximum of one to two days a week in the kitchen, with the remainder focused on recipe development and project work.

Above all, HelloFresh is looking for people who will make the company better. There are many different ways of developing skills, and diverse experiences are valued, so candidates who do not meet every requirement but believe they would thrive in the role are encouraged to consider the opportunity.

What we offer: The Toppings

Compensation & Financial Wellbeing

• 20% off HelloFresh and 40% off Factor_ subscriptions.
• Access to the Benefits at Work platform for discounts on brands like Nike, Bol.com, and IKEA.
• A HelloFresh laptop, a €250 home office setup budget, and participation in the Bedrijfspensioenfonds Levensmiddelen pension scheme (2026 rate 27.6%; employer pays 19.64%, employee pays 7.96%).

Health & Wellbeing

• Discounts on ClassPass and gym memberships via Bedrijfsfitness Nederland, free bootcamp classes in Amsterdam, and free subscriptions to Headspace and OpenUp.
• A 7,5% discount on additional health insurance at Zilveren Kruis in 2025.

Flexibility & Work-Life

• Hybrid working setup with 50% office and 50% remote work, plus a €2.40 daily remote work allowance.
• 24 days of annual leave (pro-rated), plus one additional day per year of service up to 30 days total.
• Full reimbursement for 2nd-class public transport to the office, plus €0.23 per km for car and bicycle travel.
• Eligible employees can work from another country for up to 8 weeks per year.

Career & Development

• Access to internal and external development opportunities, a cross-market mentoring program.
• A dedicated annual budget for learning, skill development, and career growth.

Culture & Environment

• Fresh homemade lunches in the office (€3.00/day), weekly Friday drinks, quarterly strategy sessions, and team events.

About HelloFresh

HelloFresh has more than 15,000 employees from over 70 nationalities at the heart of a diverse, fast-paced, and dynamic environment where innovation and smart, fast action are encouraged. Employees are encouraged to make an immediate impact in their area of work and supported to grow their careers within the company.