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Hospitality Head Chef

Vacancy details

General information

Division/ Dept At Elior we\'re enriching lives, everywhere, every day. Feeding children in schools, loved ones in hospitals and care homes, sports fans in stadiums, visitors in heritage sites and teams in the workplace.

We are a multi-award-winning global player in the hospitality sector, founded in 1991 with over 105,000 colleagues worldwide, serving over 4 million guests every day. In the UK, our dedicated team serve our customers across 1200 locations.

Because of our success and stability, we can offer you excellent career opportunities where you will be nurtured and supported to fulfil your potential. We are renowned for looking after our people, with 87% of our colleagues feeling proud to work with us, and we are committed to delivering delicious and healthy food, which is ethically sourced.

And we\'re committed to looking after the planet, supporting the community, cutting food waste and supporting wellbeing. We\'ve lots to shout about with our strong and united approach in tackling many important global sustainability issues.

This role sits within our Business & Industry division, catering for those within the workplace. We\'re an award-winning business and industry hospitality team, proud of our creativity and ingenuity, with a big focus on our people who are everything to us. Daringly delicious, we deliver exceptional food and service to our customers, making us one of London\'s most respected and fast-growing boutique catering companies.

Reference 2023-56205

Publication start date 07/08/2023

Publication end date 04/09/2023

Position description

Job title

Hospitality Head Chef

Contract type

Permanent

Contractual hours

Full-time

Shift Pattern & Working Hours

40hrs, occasional weekends required, and weekend rota for on-call cover.

Salary

\xc2\xa350,000

Working environment

Lexington is an award-winning contract caterer that focus on providing great food and service to customers.

Overseeing the bustling operations of the daily kitchens including Private Dining Rooms, and the first-floor meeting rooms offering an array of services such as breakfasts, gourmet sandwich lunches, sophisticated client dining, as well as expertly curated hot and cold buffets. Also 3/4 events per week ranging from cocktail parties to canapes. Leading a dedicated team of 11 professionals, complemented by robust business-level support.

Job description

Your key responsibilities as the Hospitality-Head Chef are to:

• Maintain and achieve the catering budgets and standards set out by Lexington in conjunction with the Hospitality Manager and Executive Chef
• Establish and maintain health and safety and hygiene and hygiene procedures in line with the company policy.
• Produce and present food in conjunction with the kitchen team maximising customer appeal and exceed Lexington\'s and client expectations.
• Set an example to and monitor the performance of all kitchen staff.
• Conduct the purchase, receiving, storage and stock controls of all lines demonstrating kitchen due-diligence.
• Ensure Consistency, current trends and innovation
• Show financial management through correct costing, stock taking and menu planning benefiting both Lexington and our customers.
• Recruit, support, train, coach and manage all kitchen staff and set an example for delivering an efficient quality and financially beneficial service for both Lexington and our customers.
• Enhance and improve skills and knowledge by training and development benefiting self, all staff, Lexington and our customers.

Skills & Experience

The experience and knowledge we are looking for from the future Hospitality- Head Chef include:

• Experience in producing a high volume, yet creative and fresh, food offering.
• Up to date with current food trends and dining scene.
• Effective communicator: verbal, and non-verbal, team work, team builder, persuasive and flexible.
• Management skills - leadership, delegation, achievement orientated, motivated, staff development focus, analysis and problem solving, planning & organising, decisiveness & judgement.
• Ability to creative a motivated and fun working environment.

Benefits

As part of your package, we are offering a salary up to \xc2\xa350,000 per annum.

This role comes with an Employee Assistance Programme, a great cycle to work scheme, workplace pension, life Assurance (x2), 33 days holiday - pro-rata (including Bank Holidays) increasing to 31 days after 2 years\' service, great benefits for you and your family and day off for your birthday!

Why it\'s great to work for us

At Lexington we dare to be different with our food, our catering and reception services, and the way we work. Our values are a representation of who we are and through our values we encourage our people to be themselves, to be creative and to be bold, and we work hard to make sure our people enjoy what they do and have fun.

We foster and believe in a diverse workplace where we embrace and celebrate our differences, which creates an environment of positive energy. It is our culture to nurture great talent, create a place for people to thrive and fulfil their potential.

We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer and welcome everyone to our team. In your application please let us know if you need reasonable adjustments and feel free to note if you will require further assistance and which pronouns you use (for example - she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).

If you want to join an award-winning team who are passionate about serving delicious food and want to work with some the most exceptional client in London, you won\'t be disappointed. Don\'t just take our word for it and visit our website where our people have shared their experiences.

Interested?

All you need is an updated CV and cover letter, we\'ll do the rest.

#TheJobThatIWant #TeamElior #EliorCareers #EliorFoodie

Twitter: @elioruk / @LexyFood Facebook: Elior Careers Instagram: elior_uk

Any internal colleagues applying for this role, please be advised that new terms and conditions will apply.

Advert closing date

04/09/2023

Position location

Job location

England

Town & Post code

London, EC1Y 8YY

Candidate criteria

Minimum level of experience required

More than 2 years

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