Executive Chef

Job Introduction

As an Executive Chef at Sodexo York, you’re also a team player and food waste saver. Your passion for food and organizational excellence will lead an entire food and beverage production. This is a chance to make a positive impact, all while getting an opportunity to advance your career with a global leader in services! Join Sodexo and be part of something greater. You belong in a team where you can act with purpose and thrive in your own way.

We are currently looking to recruit an excellent and experienced Executive Chef to join our team on a prestigious FMCG client site in York. This is a really exciting opportunity; you will ooze passion to deliver exceptional customer service that builds valuable long-term relationships with colleagues, customers and clients.  You’ll be an inspirational leader who loves getting the best from your team and supporting them to be the best they can be.  This is a large multi outlet site where your focus will be to enhance the catering offer.

We are looking for Chefs who bring excitement, energy and passion to work every day and can get the best from their teams and deliver financial success.

You will join our dedicated catering team, who produce outstanding food using the finest and freshest ingredients in this highly innovative corporate environment. We put our dedication to fabulous food in the spotlight to showcase what our talented team can do!

The Ideal candidate will have proven experience in a similar environment. This role is not purely culinary and offers a varied workload so you will be happy to organise, manage and develop all catering onsite.

Role Responsibility

What you’ll do:

• Deliver the food programmes appropriate for our client and in line with Sodexo brands 
• Drive profitability for both Sodexo and our client through excellence in execution
• Project manage key projects across the contract working with the food platform team
• Lead or consult the recruitment process on catering positions
• Deliver on brand integrity within all Sodexo run outlets
• Develop and implementation of site business and training plan
• Strength in being an ambassador of customer service at the highest level; customer service excellence
• Maintain compliance with client and/or program contracts for all outlets

For a full list of responsibilities please view the attached job description

The Ideal Candidate

What you bring:

• Proven experience as executive chef or group head chef
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to manage teams of people
• Impeccable culinary skills
• Client customer communication skills, with the ability to develop long term relationships
• Passion for food and service delivery
• IT Skills
• P&L experience
• Strong financial awareness and understanding of budgets

Package Description

£38,000pa - £43,000pa dependent on exp + excellent benefits

Location: York

Permanent

Work Pattern – 40 hrs pw Monday to Friday with flexibility essential to meet business demands

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we offer:

• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Access to ongoing training and development programs
• Countless opportunities to grow within the company
• Full training

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!

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

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