Head Chef - Hospitality

Company Description

Head Chef - Hospitality

Mon to Fri

Location: London - Moorgate

Salary: Up to £50,000

Benefits:

1. 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
2. Plus your birthday off
3. 3 volunteering days
4. 3 days grandparent leave
5. 24 weeks enhanced maternity leave
6. Work abroad opportunities
7. Secondary career leave
8. Wedding/commitment day leave
9. Free meals on shift
10. Bespoke training and development opportunities
11. Apprenticeship opportunities for all experience levels
12. Pension and life insurance
13. Discounts available from HAPI app, from high street shops to holidays & cinema
14. Wellbeing hub
15. Access to employee assistance programme
16. Cycle to work scheme

Calling all culinary connoisseurs that are OBSESSED about food, we need you! If you have an insatiable appetite for the culinary arts and a burning desire to create food that delights customers and clients, then look no further. At BaxterStorey we offer an exceptional culinary playground where your creativity can flourish, your talents can shine and we wholeheartedly believe in nourishing talent and empowering our chefs to continuously evolve, refine their craft and create a development partnership together to ensure professional growth opportunities.

We have an exciting opportunity for a collaborative, inclusive and passionate Head Chef to join our team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled Head Chef to make a name for themselves within the food service industry and be a part of setting the new standard for workplace hospitality.

Job Description:

1. Lead, Inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
2. Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships & communication methods with clients and other key stakeholders in the business.
3. Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment.
4. 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.
5. Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance.

Qualifications:

1. Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role
2. Have an obsession for food and creating experiences
3. You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date
4. Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance
5. Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills
6. Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure
7. Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail
8. Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication
9. Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective
10. Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
11. Works according to the BaxterStorey core values

Here at BaxterStorey we have an exciting opportunity for experienced and highly motivated Head Chef for our highly prestigious client in the heart of the City. This role would suit an individual who thrives working in an inclusive, value-driven, dynamic, and entrepreneurial environment.

Our client is an investment bank, about to move their London Campus into one purpose-built HQ at Moorgate. This facility will host 5600 employees, offering a Food Hall style Staff Restaurant, Bistro for informal dining, a Coffee Lounge by day which becomes a licenced bar by night and an unmanned Retail outlet.

In addition, our Hospitality offer will include a raked Auditorium for 280 guests, along with networking space for 200+ and the opportunity to host plated dinners for 80 covers.

Our Client Dining suite has 14 private dining rooms, 3 of which come with private terraces, a Chefs Table for 10 covers and a Terrace with BBQ & Al Fresco dining. Our Conference suite has 17 meeting rooms, and we have a further 37 internal meeting room spaces throughout the building.

Our drive and belief in our people means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

Come be a part of the food revolution!

ALWAYS VISIONARY: We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.

WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE: We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is amplified by our people.

CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE: We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.

FOREVER CONSCIOUS: We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our workforce. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

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Created on 02/04/2025 by TN United Kingdom