Executive Head Chef

Job Introduction

If we have piqued your interest, we’re guessing you’re an exceptional Executive Head Chef.

We are looking for an culinary genius to lead our kitchen team in a premier league football stadium based on the South coast.

WHAT’S THE JOB?
As the Exec Chef, you will work closely with the Divisional Executive Chef & the Senior operations team initially to design & develop all menus for the football season ahead and the conferencing & banqueting facilities.

You will be responsible for setting and creating the specifications, then go onto recruiting, training, and developing the chef team.

You should be an experienced Head Chef or Exec, with a good idea and understanding of current food trends and innovation. Although with some parts still being a hands-on role, you will predominantly be responsible for the ongoing development of both the team and the menus, with 85% of your time spent out of the kitchen.

Role Responsibility

Responsible for all food production across the stadium to include match day restaurants, boxes & 1901 club areas, East Stand Clint restaurant, Dicks Bar Café and all other Catered Events.

Create and develop menus, food purchase specifications and recipes.

Develop food craft on site, and with teams in each catering area.

Develop and monitor food and labour budgets for each department.

Maintain highest professional food quality and sanitation standards.

Ensure all Health & Safety areas are kept to Sodexo standards

The Ideal Candidate

The right candidate will be an existing Head or Exec Chef who is used to a busy kitchen environment, ideally managed a high-volume site in the past, have a good knowledge of ethical suppliers and able to cost menus successfully. You will need to have experience with developing teams, training and nurturing chefs and understanding operational flows.

Other attributes would include:

• Great attention to detail and experience with menu development.
• A passion for maintaining standards and training.
• A genuine love for high quality ingredients and food innovation.

Package Description

• Excellent pay of up to £52k
• Company bonus & flexible benefits fund
• Ability to build & maintain a high standard of food
• Incredible opportunities to support in other world class events & venues

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