Executive Chef

Mind Body Soul; Dubai; On-site; AED 480,000 - 760,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Staff meals

Direct line to CEO

Job summary

Mind Body Soul, Dubai, seeks an Executive Chef to shape the culinary direction, product and scalable systems. You will lead end-to-end culinary development, production, quality and cost controls, reporting to the CEO. Build a high-performance kitchen aligned with health-focused meal concepts.

You will drive menu innovation, supplier standards, and scalable production while maintaining exceptional quality and profitability across multi-location growth.

Qualifications

• Senior culinary leadership experience in a food business setting.
• Proven ability to develop nutritionally driven menus and recipes.
• Strong cost management, yield optimization and margin awareness.
• Experience managing large-scale production outside fine dining.
• Knowledge of quality systems and HACCP standards.
• Proven ability to recruit, coach and develop kitchen teams.
• Ability to balance creativity with operational discipline and commercial goals.
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration with Nutrition, Procurement, Ops and Marketing.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end culinary and product innovation from menu design to production.
• Own recipe costing targets and menu profitability.
• Improve yield, portion control, and ingredient utilization while reducing waste.
• Design efficient kitchen workflows and scalable production processes.
• Embed rigorous quality control, safety standards and HACCP.
• Recruit and develop chefs and kitchen staff for high performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure nutritionally sound, delicious offerings.

Skills

Executive leadership

Menu development

Food costing

High-volume production

Quality systems

HACCP knowledge

Team coaching

Commercial mindset

Job description

Executive Chef | Mind Body Soul by Frappy | Dubai

A senior leadership role shaping the food, products and scalable culinary systems behind the next chapter of Mind Body Soul. Reports directly to the CEO.

About Mind Body Soul

Mind Body Soul was built on a simple belief: food should nourish the body, bring joy and make people feel better, without compromising on taste. Heading into 2027, we are preparing to elevate and scale MBS into a new generation of health-focused food and meal solutions.

The Role

You will lead our end-to-end culinary and food production proposition, from menu innovation and recipe engineering through costing, sourcing, production, quality control and continuous improvement. Your mission: turn nutrition-led meal plans into food that is delicious, consistent, operationally sound and commercially viable.

What You’ll Do

Culinary and Product Innovation

• Create and continuously evolve menus across health, wellness and lifestyle meal plans
• Develop nutrition-led food that customers genuinely crave
• Introduce seasonal concepts, techniques, ingredients and signature MBS products
• Lead tastings and use customer feedback and performance data to refine the menu
• Standardize recipes, specifications, portions and presentation

Food Cost and Commercial Performance

• Own recipe costing, food cost targets and menu profitability
• Improve yield, portion control and ingredient utilization while reducing waste
• Partner with procurement on supplier standards, specifications and commercial terms
• Reduce cost through creativity and smarter production, never by compromising ingredients

Kitchen Operations and Scale

• Lead the kitchen and production function and build a high-performance culinary culture
• Design efficient workflows from receiving and preparation through assembly and dispatch
• Optimize batch sizes, schedules, equipment use and labor productivity
• Simplify production while protecting quality, consistency and customer experience

Quality, Safety and People

• Embed rigorous culinary, quality control, HACCP and food safety standards
• Monitor taste, texture, temperature, portion and appearance, with clear corrective action
• Recruit, coach and develop chefs and kitchen personnel
• Build accountability, innovation and continuous improvement across the team

Cross-Functional Leadership

You will work closely with Nutrition & Dietetics, Procurement, Operations, Finance, Marketing & Brand, and Customer Experience. Every new product must be nutritionally appropriate, delicious, operationally feasible, scalable and profitable. You will have direct authority over culinary standards, recipes, specifications, production methods, kitchen processes and product development.

Your First 12 Months

• Complete a full culinary and production audit
• Re-engineer core menus, recipes and specifications, with standardized recipe cards and production controls
• Implement food cost, yield and portion control systems
• Build scalable kitchen SOPs, quality standards and a structured product development pipeline
• Launch new signature MBS products and seasonal concepts
• Improve production productivity and reduce waste
• Build a high-performing culinary team and prepare the operation for multi-location growth and expansion beyond the UAE

What We’re Looking For

A high-caliber chef with a proven record in a respected F&B, hospitality, central kitchen, catering, food manufacturing or meal plan environment. You combine the chef’s palate, the operator’s discipline and the entrepreneur’s mindset.

Required

• Senior culinary leadership experience (Executive Chef, Culinary Director or central kitchen leadership)
• Strong experience in high-volume food production, beyond fine dining alone
• Demonstrated menu development, product innovation and recipe standardization
• Strong command of food costing, yield, waste, productivity and margins
• Experience establishing SOPs, quality systems and scalable production disciplines
• Excellent knowledge of HACCP and food safety requirements
• Proven ability to lead, coach and develop high-performing kitchen teams
• Commercial judgment and the ability to balance creativity with operational discipline

Preferred

• Background in meal plans, catering, central kitchens, FMCG or food manufacturing
• Lebanese and Mediterranean culinary expertise
• Nutrition-led or healthy food concepts
• Experience scaling a food concept, operation or product portfolio
• Procurement, supplier development and international culinary standards

What We Offer

• Medical insurance
• Staff meals
• A direct line to the CEO and real ownership of the food, the kitchen and the product pipeline

Why Mind Body Soul

This is bigger than a meal plan. We want to make healthy food desirable, convenient, beautiful and delicious, and build a business that can grow well beyond the UAE.