Executive Chef

Job Introduction

Are you a passionate, innovate catering professional with exceptional team management skills? Are you looking to enhance your career? If so – we may be just the organisation for you!

This high profile, role will see you lead the delivery and production of quality food for a prestigious contract within the educational sector. 

You will have had experience of working in a results driven environment focusing particularly on finance, people management and most importantly quality. 

Role Responsibility

• To ensure that the Company’s accountancy, documentation and administration procedures are carried out to the laid down standard.
• Ensure that all costs and expenditure are within the budgeted levels and agreed between the client and Sodexo. Control all costs such as labour, expenses, cash purchases as agreed with line manager.
• Maximise profitable sales by the introduction and maintenance of food service brands to the standard required by the company.
• Monitor and maintain consistent methods of food preparation, production, presentation and service for all meals and ensure they comply with the Sodexo standard and procedures and meet the agreed specification of the contract.
• To establish and maintain satisfactory relationships with individuals at all levels within the company and the client organisation.
• Ensure compliance to all Sodexo policies in respect of Health and Safety.
• To implement and maintain all statutory and company policies and procedures, communicating it to all employees and ensuring full compliance.
• To ensure that all food is prepared with due care and attention, particularly regarding customers special dietary requirements.
• Motivate and lead employees to perform their roles to a high standard and in alignment to Sodexo policies and procedures.
• Develop long term client relationships in line with the ‘clients for life philosophy’ to enhance the retention of current clients and customers, gain referrals for new business and attract new customers.

The Ideal Candidate

• Previous experience of being an Executive Chef
• Experience of leading a team
• Able to demonstrate creativity and the development of new food offers and menus
• Intermediate Food Hygiene certificate
• 706/2 or NVQ2 chef qualification, or equivalent
• Ability to achieve and set standards and operate to performance criteria, with regard to hygiene
• Flexible approach to role
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with customers, clients and frontline employees

Package Description

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave. We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

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.