Head Chef | Lead & Elevate Creative Cuisine

Baxterstorey; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training opportunities

Apprenticeships

Pension & life insurance

Perkbox discounts

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work

Job summary

BaxterStorey is seeking a Head Chef in Milton Keynes to lead a dynamic kitchen and deliver exceptional standards across food service. You will mentor your team, manage budgets and build strong client relationships to drive performance.

This permanent, full-time role offers development opportunities, pension and life insurance, plus ongoing training and employee benefits through our Perkbox program.

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, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
• Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships 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.

Job description

BaxterStorey is seeking a Head Chef in Milton Keynes to lead a dynamic kitchen and deliver exceptional standards across food service. You will mentor your team, manage budgets and build strong client relationships to drive performance.

This permanent, full-time role offers development opportunities, pension and life insurance, plus ongoing training and employee benefits through our Perkbox program.