Culinary Leader & Team Growth Coach

Wshgroup; Shirley; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

BaxterStorey is seeking a Head Chef to lead and develop a talented team, delivering exceptional hospitality experiences across varied locations in the UK. You will manage food quality, standards, and budgets while driving commercial performance.

You will mentor staff, collaborate with clients and stakeholders, and uphold BaxterStorey values. The role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and a passion for culinary excellence.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role
• Have an obsession for food and creating experiences
• 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
• Works according to the BaxterStorey core values

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
• Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships & communication methods with clients and other key stakeholders in the business.
• Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment.
• Create a culture of excellence with your team, continually striving to push the boundaries of brilliance through natural caring service, obsessive food standards and innovation.
• Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance.

Skills

Head Chef experience

Food obsession

Team management

Budgeting & commercial awareness

Coaching & delegation

Multitasking under pressure

Organisation & attention to detail

Communication skills

Solution-oriented thinking

Strategic thinking

Values alignment

Job description

BaxterStorey is seeking a Head Chef to lead and develop a talented team, delivering exceptional hospitality experiences across varied locations in the UK. You will manage food quality, standards, and budgets while driving commercial performance.

You will mentor staff, collaborate with clients and stakeholders, and uphold BaxterStorey values. The role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and a passion for culinary excellence.