Head Chef Monday - Friday

Medirest Signature; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading workplace catering company in Birmingham is looking for a Head Chef to manage food preparation for up to 2,000 people daily. The ideal candidate will have fine dining experience, manage a team of 5 chefs, and ensure high standards of food quality and hygiene. This full-time role offers various employee benefits and opportunities for personal development.

Benefits

Personal Development and Training opportunities

Life assurance scheme

Pension scheme

Holiday allowance

Private medical eligibility

Eye care

Wellbeing strategy access

Family friendly support

Regular social events

Holiday purchase scheme

Volunteering days

Professional subscriptions

Recognition schemes and people awards

Long service awards

High street discount vouchers

Qualifications

• Previous B&I workplace experience would be advantageous.
• Fine dining experience preferred.
• Ability to build great client relationships.
• Previous experience with mobilising a new contract.
• Passionate about delivering exceptional retail and hospitality food offers.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and oversee all preparation of food to the highest standard.
• Produce food in a timely fashion to ensure smooth service.
• Ensure availability of all appropriate ingredients for the menus.
• Develop and plan menus in line with client expectations.
• Manage a team of 5 Chefs and overall kitchen operations.

Job description

At Gather & Gather, we are known as one of the UK & Irelands most distinctive workplace catering experts, we are passionate about great food and great coffee and putting our employees and customers at the heart of everything that we do. We are currently recruiting for a Head Chef.

Location:Lloyds Banking Group Head office - Birmingham City Central Location

Rate of pay: £40,000 per annum

Working pattern: 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday, predominantly daytime social hours with some evenings required for events

About The Role:
We are very excited to launch at brand new B&I space in Birmingham with a premium banking client. The site will cater to up to 2,000 people each day. On site we have a retail restaurant space, event spaces that can cater to 300-400 people for events. We have several meeting rooms on site to host private fine dining lunches, corporate lunches, morning tea, afternoon tea -any catering required on site we provide.

We provide a fresh food offering throughout and are looking for a Head Chef to join us who can drive forward hospitality and retail on site. This position involves managing a team of 5 in the kitchen but also the ability to deputise in absence of the GM to lead a team of 15.

Key Responsibilities:

• To prepare and oversee all preparation of food to the highest standard
• To produce food in a timely fashion to ensure smooth service to the customers
• To ensure that all appropriate ingredients are available for the menus
• To develop and plan menus that are in line with client and customer expectations
• To be creative when menu planning and including the client and customers
• Managing a team of 5 Chefs
• Pride yourself on food quality and hygiene standard
• Overall responsibility for managing the kitchen team
• Provide feedback and coaching on performance
• To ensure that the kitchen team have completed up to date COSSH and Food Hygiene training

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Previous B&I workplace experience would be advantageous
• Fine dining experience preferred
• Ability to build great client relationships
• Previous experience with mobilising a new contract
• Passionate about delivering exceptional retail and hospitality food offers on site and looking to update and innovate these

What's in it for you?

Working with Gather and Gather has its perks! People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.

• Personal Development and Training opportunities
• Life assurance scheme
• Pension scheme
• Holiday allowance
• Private medical eligibility
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing strategy - including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
• Family friendly support
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Volunteering days
• Professional subscriptions
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers