Location: Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Switzerland
Work model: Office-based / Full time, Monday to Friday
Contract type / duration: Temporary – 12 months

Shape the future through scientific breakthroughs and innovation

As a Chef de Partie / Cook at Nestlé Research, your mission is to deliver high-quality food preparation and service within your kitchen section, ensuring consistency, efficiency, hygiene, and excellent standards every day. You will make a difference by collaborating closely with the Head Chef, kitchen team, apprentices, and the wider Food and Beverage community. This is your opportunity to turn ideas into sustainable and innovative solutions for people, pets, and the planet.

How you’ll make an impact as a Chef de Partie / Cook

• Delivering consistent, high-quality dishes that meet recipe, presentation, and portioning standards.
• Ensuring smooth service by preparing your station efficiently and staying ready throughout every service period.
• Maintaining excellent food safety and hygiene standards through clean, organized, and disciplined daily practices.
• Optimizing ingredients, stock planning, and ordering to reduce food waste, respect budgets, and support operations.
• Contributing ideas for menu development and kitchen improvements that enhance quality, efficiency, and the guest experience.
• Supporting colleagues, apprentices, events, and cross-team activities with reliability, professionalism, and a strong team spirit.
  
  

What will make you successful

• Bringing solid culinary expertise from fine dining or luxury kitchens, with exposure to high-volume operations and banqueting.
• Applying strong food safety, hygiene, and workstation organization practices in a fast-paced kitchen.
• Using time management, cost awareness, stock anticipation, and waste reduction to keep operations efficient.
• Collaborating with a positive, hands-on, and reliable approach while sharing your know-how with junior team members.
• Communicating fluently in French; good command of English.
• Bringing collaboration, fresh thinking, bold questions, respect, and a positive, wellbeing-oriented mindset, to create shared value.
  
  

At Nestlé Research, we place people at the core of everything we do

Our benefits are designed to support your growth and wellbeing, so you can thrive at work and in life:

• Paid holidays beyond legal requirements
• Learning and development opportunities to grow your career
• Performance based bonus
• Healthcare contribution and access to the Employee Assistance Program
• Strong employer contribution to your pension plan
• Generous parental leave and comprehensive family support solutions
• Attractive employee discounts across various products and services
  
  

What to expect from our hiring process

We are committed to an inclusive and respectful hiring experience and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations if needed. Our workplaces are fully accessible and supported by a strong safety culture, with modern installations and procedures to ensure a safe environment for everyone.

The hiring process typically includes an interview with Talent Acquisition, an interview with the hiring team, and a final discussion and offer. Depending on the role, a video assessment may be included. We review applications as they are received and close the role once a strong list of relevant candidates is identified, so we encourage you to apply early. All information is treated confidentially.

Stay vigilant: Nestlé will only contact candidates via official company email addresses and will never ask for payments or sensitive personal information at any stage of the hiring process.

Ready to #BreakthroughTogether?

Apply now and shape the future through scientific breakthroughs and innovation.

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