Junior Sous Chef – Pastry

Anantara Hotels & Resorts; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Anantara Downtown Dubai is seeking a dedicated culinary professional to lead activities in the Restaurant Kitchen area, ensuring a safe, smooth, and profitable operation under the Hotel framework. You will contribute to developing restaurant cuisine concepts, work with local markets and suppliers, and uphold Anantara's presentation and food safety guidelines while mentoring team members.

This role emphasizes cross‑department collaboration, asset management, and ongoing training to elevate

Responsibilities

• Organize all activities within a Restaurant Kitchen area with the restaurant chef, ensuring a safe, smooth running and profitable operation within the Hotel framework.
• Support development of Restaurant cuisine concepts and standards; be familiar with local markets and suppliers; recommend menu changes based on seasonal availability; adhere to presentation guidelines.
• Maintain food safety and sanitation practices and ensure all food handling follows dating, storage, rotation and related safety standards.
• Maintain outlet safety at all times and take responsibility for asset management of outlet property and facilities.
• Participate in departmental training to improve skills and service levels, providing the team with training and resources.
• Promote positive inter-departmental relations through candid communication and cooperation.

Job description

Job Location:

Anantara Downtown Dubai

Anantara Hotels & Resorts is a global luxury hotel and resort brand rooted in Thai culture, with an intrinsic sense of authentic hospitality. Inspired by the Sanskrit word meaning ‘without end’, our spirit embodies freedom, movement, and harmony. We believe every journey should leave a lasting impression — for our guests and for our people.

Founded in 2001 in Thailand, we have since expanded across the world, welcoming guests in some of the world’s most captivating locales — from pristine beaches and private islands to ancient sites and vibrant metropolises. If you are driven by a passion for generosity, warmth and heartfelt hospitality, Anantara offers a career without limits.

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of everything that needs to be done. Anantara employees always find new ways to look after the business, their guests, and their colleagues. Within this, the key responsibilities for this position are:

Key responsibilities for this position are:

• With the restaurant chef, organize all activities within a Restaurant Kitchen area, ensuring a safe, smooth running and profitable operation within the framework of the Hotel.
• Support the development of Restaurant cuisine concepts and standards. Be familiar with local market & suppliers. Recommend menu changes according to seasonal product availability. Adhere to Anantara food preparation and presentation guidelines to ensure consistent quality culinary offerings to our guests. Continually look to recommend improvements and additions to the Anantara presentation guidelines.
• Maintain food safety & protection. All food in working areas should be in compliance with food handling techniques, including dating, proper storage, rotation, etc. Maintain basic food safety and sanitation practices.
• Maintain outlet safety at all times.
• Take responsibility for asset management of all outlet property and facilities.
• Participate in departmental training to improve departmental skills and hotel service levels, providing team members the training and resources to take care of our guests.
• Promote positive inter-departmental relations through candid communication and cooperation.