Fine Dining Chef

Job Introduction

Are you passionate about food? Do you enjoy managing a team and truly thrive working in a kitchen that caters to high volumes?

We are currently recruiting for a Fine Dining Chef to join our Sodexo team on site in the Headingley Stadium - home to Leeds Rhinos and Yorkshire County Cricket Club as well as playing host venue to international rugby and cricket fixtures and major events.

You will be responsible for ensuring the kitchen delivers a high quality food service at all times, management of the kitchen staff, presenting client tastings, maintaining food safety at all times, and maximising profit.

If you are a pro-active, confident Fine Dining Chef who enjoys being hands-on and managing a team, with excellent people skills we would like to hear from you! 

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Role Responsibility

• To work with the Executive Head Chef to lead the culinary delivery at Headingley Stadium, including match days, events, client tastings, chef management, food safety compliance and operational standards
• Develop food offer strategy in line with current and emerging consumer needs and market trends.
• Present each menu design at relevant client tastings and be able to speak passionately about each dish
• Own, define and maintain culinary development plans, as well as leading change management processes
• Specifically to ensure that the venue remains ahead of the market in understanding and delivering creative and relevant innovation
• Maximise profitability within area of responsibility and deliver required financial and service level results
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement of people, systems, processes and food offer

The Ideal Candidate

What we are looking for:

• Experience in a high volume environment – major events or large scale banqueting operation
• Fine dining background gained in hotels, restaurants or contract catering
• A passionate interest in the catering industry – knowledge of current trends, well read, eats out in interesting restaurants on a regular basis, talks about and gets excited about food
• A competent communicator and ability to present to colleagues, peers and clients, and manage a team of chefs
• Financial awareness and understanding of a food profit and loss account and articulate how to control food cost and generate positive food margin
• Level 3 Food Hygiene, and Allergen qualifications

Where we can be flexible:

• Supervising Food Safety Level 3 qualification
• IOSH Managing Safely or similar qualification
• Previous experience in Head Chef role or Senior Sous Chef role
• Production kitchen knowledge and experience in the delivery of retail food operations
• Experience of working with clients in a contract catering environment
• Staff training experience

Package Description

Up to £30,000 + excellent benefits package

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