As Executive Chef you ll direct all kitchen activities and prepare our delicious food - helping create memorable experiences for guests - whenever and wherever they dine. You ll also ensure quality, kitchen maintenance, and inventory functions kept to our high standards - to make sure your kitchen is always running smoothly.
Your day-to-dayPeople
Direct daily kitchen activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues - recognise good performance
Recommend or initiate any HR elated actions where needed
Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive connect departments to create sense of one team
Promote teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination with other departments. Communicate with all hotel department heads to stay informed of kitchen needs and ensure timely responses to requests
Responsible business
You ll make sure our dishes are always at their best - we have standards - but it s down to you to make that room special and memorable for guests
Keep an eye on competitor activity / industry innovation to develop your own ideas in the kitchen
Make sure food and drinks are secure and stored safely always keep stock replenished to minimise waste
Ensure that all kitchen equipment and environment are hygienic and working properly
Always follow governmental regulations and company policies and procedures
Ad-hoc duties unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done
Guest experience
Encourage guest feedback to improve guest satisfaction
Answer guest questions about dishes and kitchen services
Help the Food and Beverage Director with event planning
Financial
Complete forecasts, plans, and departmental production reports for management
Help prepare the hotel s annual budget and the setting of departmental goals
Maintain costing and documentation of all dishes prepared and sold from the kitchen
Accountabilities
Supervise kitchen team in a large, luxury, or resort hotel with multiple major food and beverage outlets and banquet facilities with capacity to cater to more than 500 people. May oversee managers and/or supervisors and professional culinary staff
Keyskills: Training Costing Staffing guest satisfaction Chef HTTP Event planning Service quality Executive Chef Room
Our historyIHG is one of the worlds leading hotel companies with a presence in nearly 100 countries. We became a standalone company in 2003 but our business and broad portfolio of hotel brands have a much longer history