Head Chef

Package Description

Competitive salary plus excellent benefits available

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more.

Job Introduction

Are you a Head Chef passionate about culinary arts and delivering a high-quality service? If yes, then we would like to hear from you.

We are looking for an experienced Head Chef to join us in leading the on-site team to provide an excellent catering service to our client, a major oil & gas operator in Waterloo, London. You alongside the team will deliver new menus which demonstrate flair and innovation in the food service offer, whilst ensuring the prompt and efficient preparation and delivery in all food areas to the company’s standard and to the client’s satisfaction. 

We are looking for someone who can continually propose initiatives that deliver best value to the customer, can promote healthy eating, wellbeing and employee satisfaction and improve patronage and grow sales. You will be a leader for safety, hygiene and food quality whilst building a motivated team. This role would suit a Head Chef from a large corporate or retail catering background with contract catering experience.

Main Responsibilities

• To lead a high performing team of chefs within a busy brigade, ensuring that all areas of the operation are working effectively across a five-day operation.
• To provide strategy and innovation in line with commercial food and menu planning.
• Responsible for driving compliance of Health, Safety, Food Hygiene and COSHH regulations.
• Drive sales through centrally driven menu plans and promotions and ensure compliance through preferred suppliers.
• Provide high quality service to customers and client in line with a food service offer that is applicable to sector and client.
• Provide Costings for new menus and promotions
• Provide seasonal changing menus & product tastings as and when required.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Proven experience in managing and leading a kitchen team.
• Industry acumen and knowledge of external catering developments & innovation
• Strong front of house presence with ability to engage with senior clients
• Strong financial understanding and demonstrable budgeting management
• Experienced in adhering to and driving company initiative
• Personal innovation and passion
• Demonstrative customer focus and service skills
• Strong communication, and negotiation skills
• Experience working in a standards /compliance environment
• City & Guilds 706/1, 2 or NVQ Level 3 or similar qualification
• Food Hygiene Certificate
• IT literate

Desirable

• IOSH managing safely qualification
• CIEH Level 3 qualification
• Experience of delivering training
• Experience within a hotel environment

About The Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.