Company Description CakeOpera is a specialty cake brand dedicated to making every celebration sweeter, more joyful, and visually memorable. The team focuses on crafting high-quality, beautifully designed cakes for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, corporate events, and other special occasions. Using premium ingredients and innovative designs, CakeOpera delivers products that are as delightful to taste as they are to look at.

Personalized service and attention to detail are at the heart of the company’s approach, ensuring each cake reflects the unique spirit of the event. CakeOpera aims to be a trusted name in the cake industry, recognized for quality, creativity, and customer happiness.

Role Description The NPD Chef at CakeOpera is responsible for developing current cake products and improving existing recipes to align with brand standards and customer preferences. This full-time, on-site role in Hoshiarpur involves researching trends, testing formulations, and creating innovative cakes, fillings, frostings, and decorations. The NPD Chef collaborates closely with production and design teams to standardize recipes, establish preparation methods, and ensure consistency in taste, texture, and presentation.

Daily tasks include documenting recipes, conducting tastings and quality checks, optimizing ingredient usage and cost,



and maintaining hygiene and safety standards in the kitchen. The role also includes supporting training for kitchen staff on new products and contributing ideas for seasonal collections and special event offerings.

Qualifications

- Culinary or bakery expertise with strong skills in cake baking, pastry preparation, and dessert development.
- Product development skills, including recipe formulation, sensory evaluation, and iterative testing for new cake concepts.
- Creativity in flavor pairing, visual design, and decorating techniques such as piping, fondant work, and modern finishing styles.
- Operational skills in kitchen organization, workflow planning, ingredient management, and cost awareness.
- Knowledge of food safety, hygiene standards, and basic quality control practices in a commercial kitchen environment.
- Strong attention to detail, ability to follow and create documentation, and capacity to maintain consistency across batches.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills to work with bakery, design, and customer service teams.
- Prior experience as a pastry chef, bakery chef, or NPD chef in a cake or dessert-focused environment is highly beneficial.
- Relevant culinary or bakery certification or diploma is preferred, though equivalent practical experience will be considered.

📌 NPD CHEF (Hoshiarpur)
🏢 CAKEOPERA
📍 Hoshiarpur