Hospitality Sous Chef (Monday to Friday)

Job Introduction

Sodexo's Energy and Resources segment have a fantastic opportunity for a Sous Chef to join us at Shell Centre - London. As a Sous Chef you will join our dedicated catering team, who produce outstanding food using the finest and freshest ingredients in this highly innovative corporate environment. The food offer can range from plated fine dining, canapes, working lunches, buffets and bowl food events.

The Ideal candidate will have proven experience in a similar environment, be customer facing, an ambitious people manager with a passion for innovation, who is skilled in fresh food delivery and passionate about food.

Role Responsibility

• To lead the kitchen, manage and maintain in the absence of Head Chef.
• Support the delivery of excellent food preparation and delivery within hospitality and Events
• To use strong leadership skills to motivate the brigade.
• To be responsible for ensuring that all staff are briefed on Allergens and documentation completed prior to every service.
• To deliver new menu concepts & ideas to meet the ever-changing market needs & trends.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience within a Sous Chef Role
• Experience in High Volume environment
• B&I experience advantageous
• 7061/7062 or equivalent as a minimum
• IT skills

Package Description

Salary - £34,000 - £36,000 per annum

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, free will writing, life assurance, 24hrs GP access 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 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