Food Editor, Test Kitchen Manager
Immediate
part-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £34,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Manage the Test Kitchen, including scheduling, workflow planning, resourcing, and maintaining a productive and safe working environment
- Develop, write, and refine recipes that meet our editorial standards and deliver exceptional results for our audience
- Copy edit and fact-check recipes and food features to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency
- Coordinate recipe scheduling, aligning development with editorial, video, and social content calendars
- Oversee and support the Test Kitchen Assistant, providing guidance and ensuring smooth daily operations
- Collaborate with the video team on recipe-based shoots, contributing to ideation, preparation, on-set support, and quality control
- Work closely with internal stakeholders to facilitate Test Kitchen usage for events such as agency cook-offs, talks, dinners, and brand or partner experiences
- Maintain content output levels, helping the team deliver against deadlines and uphold quality benchmarks throughout the maternity leave period
Requirements
- At least 2 years’ experience in a similar role, ideally within food media, publishing, or a professional Test Kitchen environment
- A deep knowledge of food and cooking, including strong technical understanding of ingredients, methods, and recipe development
- Solid writing and editorial skills, with proven experience editing recipes and food copy for accuracy and clarity
- Experience developing and testing recipes from concept to final publication
- Strong organisational and project management abilities, with confidence managing schedules, workflows, and deadlines
Benefits
- A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival
- Supportive well-being initiatives and benefits, talks & workshops, and Mental Health First aiders & Champions
- 25 days holiday plus a day for your birthday. Our offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s which are in addition to your annual entitlement
- Tailored training and development through both our inhouse learning platform and LinkedIn Learning
- A progressive and transparent culture focused on your development
- Flexible / hybrid working plus early finish Fridays
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced Family Policies including paternity, adoption and surrogacy leave. We also provide a pregnancy loss, fertility, and carers policy
- Competitive pension plans and Life Assurance
- A newly renovated modern office with lots of collaborative spaces
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
recipe developmentcopy editingfact-checkingworkflow planningschedulingfood preparationquality controlcontent output managementproject management
Soft skills
organizational skillscollaborationleadershipcommunicationattention to detail