Head Chef – voco Dubai

IHG Hotels & Resorts; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Employee room discounts

Great work culture

Job summary

IHG Hotels & Resorts operates voco Dubai where an experienced Head Chef leads all kitchen activities, directs staff, and maintains high standards of food quality and hygiene. The role focuses on delivering memorable guest experiences across all dining outlets and events while ensuring budget adherence and smooth operation.

The ideal candidate will have a culinary arts degree and at least five years in hotel kitchens, with strong leadership and communication skills to drive performance and guest

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in culinary arts required.
• Minimum 5 years of hotel kitchen experience.

Responsibilities

• Direct daily kitchen activities and assign work to the team.
• Coach and develop staff, set performance goals.
• Manage food quality, kitchen maintenance, and inventory.
• Support HR actions when needed and uphold safety standards.
• Collaborate with hotel departments to deliver great guest experiences.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in culinary arts

Job description

About us: At voco®, we’ve created a new hotel brand that gives people a different choice. Hotels to count on but different enough to be fun. Unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. Our new family of hotels are connected by their own sense of style and individual character – and that’s something we make the most of. Finding the perfect mix of reliability and new experiences. Because we believe that when you respect individuality life gets interesting.

About us: At voco®, we’ve created a new hotel brand that gives people a different choice. Hotels to count on but different enough to be fun. Unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. Our new family of hotels are connected by their own sense of style and individual character – and that’s something we make the most of. Finding the perfect mix of reliability and new experiences. Because we believe that when you respect individuality life gets interesting.

At the heart of every great stay is a great host

We think the trick to hosting is to take the time to understand what your guests need and want. So, before they arrive, we find out more about them and how we can make their stay better. Whilst they are with us, we give tempting recommendations of our favourite drinks or food, or tips for local experiences that they won’t find in any guidebook.

What is the job?

As Head 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 day:

People:

• 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 - recognize 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

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

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 minimize 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

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 with multiple major food and beverage outlets and banquet facilities with capacity to cater to more than 200 people. May oversee managers and/or supervisors and professional culinary staff

What we need from you:

A candidate with bachelor’s degree or certificate in culinary arts with minimum 5 years of hotel experience. Have strong drive for results, dynamic, possess good communication skills both verbal and written. Knowledge of computer accounting programs, math skills as well as budgetary analysis capabilities required

How do I deliver this?

We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all IHG® hotels.

We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all IHG® hotels.

Each IHG® hotel brand delivers True Hospitality in their own way, and at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills.

• True Attitude: being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building genuine connections with guests
• True Confidence: having the knowledge and skills to perform your role, and giving guests the confidence that they can trust you, to help and support them during their stay
• True Listening: focusing on what your guest is saying, picking up on body language that is often overlooked, and understanding what the guest wants and needs
• True Responsiveness: is about providing guests with what they need, and doing so in a timely and caring manner

There’s so much more to the job than we can capture here. It’s simply about creating great experiences, doing the right thing and understanding people.

What we offer:

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – in addition to career development, employee room discounts and great work culture.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve – visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.

Reliably Different - Welcome to voco® Hotels, IHG’s new upscale brand. We call our Hotels voco® – It means ‘to invite’ and ‘call together’ originating from Latin and representing our thoughtful, unstuffy and charming nature. Guests tell us that voco® is fun without being vanilla, trendy without being alienating and premium, without being stuffy. This unique and playful attitude, combined with a consistent level of quality, sits at the heart of our brand here at voco® Dubai Whatever we’re up to, at every instance, there are brand values and service behaviours that guide us... Brand values: Always dependable, Respect individuality & Be distinctive. Service values: Count on us to; Be natural & Make every stay special. Drawing on IHG’s years of experience in delivering True Hospitality, voco® Hotels gives people a different choice. Hotels that are reliable enough to depend on, but different enough to be fun. Our new family of hotels is connected by their individual characters, that make memorable travel dependable with unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. The world's first voco® hotel opened in November 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia and the first voco® Hotel across IMEA is voco® Dubai. voco® Dubai is a location like no other with a premium ambience in the heart of Dubai and laid back yet attentive service from the friendly hosts. It’s location on the vibrant Shiekh Zayed Road is also connecting it to many day time and no delights of the city, moments from shopping, dining and entertainment experiences.