Chef Manager

Holroyd Howe; Guildford; On-site; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading contract catering company is seeking a Chef Manager to enhance the dining experience at a prestigious school in Guildford. This role emphasizes culinary excellence and team leadership, ensuring high standards of food quality and service while adhering to health regulations. The ideal candidate should have significant experience in high-volume environments and possess strong management and organizational skills, coupled with a passion for food.

Benefits

28 days holiday including bank holidays

3 volunteering days

3 days grandparent leave

24 weeks’ enhanced maternity leave

Bespoke training and development opportunities

Pension and life insurance

Discounts via Perkbox app

Wellbeing hub & employee assistance programme

Free meals while on shift

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Chef in a high-volume environment.
• Experience managing and training a team.
• Ability to create and maintain budgets.
• Excellent coaching and influencing skills.
• Ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and present balanced menus for students.
• Oversee kitchen operations ensuring food quality and safety.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization in the kitchen.

Skills

Team management

Budget management

Communication

Organizational skills

Creative thinking

Job description

Company Description

Chef Manager
Location: Guildford
Salary: £40,000 per annum + benefits!

Benefits:

• 28 days holiday including bank holidays
• 3 volunteering days
• 3 days grandparent leave
• 24 weeks’ enhanced maternity leave
• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Pension and life insurance
• Discounts via Perkbox app (high street shops, holidays & cinema)
• Wellbeing hub & employee assistance programme
• Free meals while on shift
• Career development opportunities
• HIT Apprenticeships available for all experience levels

Are you a seasoned, inspirational, and creative Chef looking to step into a Junior Chef Manager role? Do you have a passion for creating exceptional dining experiences and driving culinary excellence?

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and ambitious professional to take the lead at Tormead School in Guildford, a prestigious independent school catering for 120 day pupils with morning break, lunch, supper service, and hospitality events, operating 51 weeks a year.

At Tormead, you won’t just be cooking – you’ll be shaping the dining experience for pupils and staff, with support, training, and opportunities to grow. This is more than a job – it’s a stepping stone into a rewarding career in culinary management.

Job Description

As our Chef Manager, your focus is to work closely with your teams to develop a great work relationship and together provide the best customer service.

As well as having an excellent presentation, organisational and communication skills, you will be able to demonstrate a real passion for food & service and possess bags of enthusiasm.

• Craft imaginative and nutritionally balanced menus that cater to diverse tastes, dietary preferences, and nutritional needs of our students.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the kitchen, ensuring high standards of food quality and service.
• Maintain strict adherence to health and safety regulations, ensuring a clean and organised kitchen environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Chef in a high-volume, quality-focused environment.
• You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date.
• Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance.
• Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills.
• Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure.
• Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail
• Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication
• Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective.
• Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills

Additional Information

Holroyd Howe is one of the UK’s leading contract caterers, providing fresh innovative food services solely to independent schools and colleges. We are a team of experienced professionals who tailor our catering service provision specifically to suit children of all ages in order to meet the bespoke requirements of each school.

To provide our teams with the right skills to succeed in their jobs, we invest in their training and development. Our exceptional teams of seasoned specialists customise our catering services to fit children of all ages and satisfy the unique needs of our clients.

We pride ourselves on:

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the heart of our thinking; always mindful of the ethics of our sourcing and how we prepare our meals.

Nutrition

We take nutrition seriously and understand the impact a healthy diet has on the fundamental years of development. Meals are always freshly prepared from scratch and packed with nutritious ingredients.

Food Innovation

We offer a wide portfolio of training opportunities and experiences, which attracts chefs who are passionate about culinary excellence and menu innovation to our team.

From tasting tables, theme days and food theatre, to chef demonstrations and supplier showcases, we create engaging and fun dining experiences for our students. We work together to make mealtimes exploratory, quirky, and fun for our pupils, helping them build strong and healthy relationships with food.

Holroyd Howe is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all employees to share this commitment. All roles within Holroyd Howe involve regulated activity. It is a criminal offence for individuals barred from working with children to apply for such roles. An Enhanced DBS check, including a Barred List check will be required for all successful applicants. Shortlisted applicants will be asked to provide information about relevant criminal offences and will be subject to an online search of publicly available information. This search helps identify any issues that may affect suitability to work with children.

This appointment is offered on the return of satisfactory professional references.