Executive Chef — Health‑Focused Culinary & Scale Leader

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

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.