Head Chef - Monday - Friday

WSH Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 Days holiday incl bank holidays

Birthday leave

Volunteering days

Grandparent leave

Enhanced maternity leave (24 weeks)

Career leave

Wedding/commitment day leave

Free meals on shift

Training and development opportunities

Pension and life insurance

Perkbox discounts

Wellbeing hub

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work

Job summary

BaxterStorey in London (The City) is seeking a creative Head Chef to lead a premium contract catering site, delivering exceptional food and service across retail restaurant and fine dining hospitality. You will oversee a team, manage budgets, and collaborate with clients to set new standards in workplace hospitality.

The role requires proven Head/Executive Chef experience, strong leadership, and a passion for delivering outstanding culinary experiences.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Head/Executive Chef or similar role.
• Strong leadership and team management experience.
• Financially astute with budgeting and commercial performance focus.
• Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills.
• Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, creative environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire, and support your team to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
• Build relationships with clients and stakeholders in the business.
• Continually develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment.
• Create a culture of excellence with high food standards and innovation.
• Achieve business KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Budgeting

Mentoring

Coaching

Organisational skills

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Adaptability

Job description

Company Description

Head Chef - Top Law Firm

Hospitality / Fine Dining & Retail

Monday - Friday

Up to £55,000

Benefits:

• 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
• Plus your birthday off
• 3 volunteering days
• 3 days grandparent leave.
• 24 week’s enhanced maternity leave.
• Secondary career leave.
• Wedding/commitment day leave.
• Free meals on shift.
• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Apprenticeships opportunities for all experience levels
• Pension and life insurance.
• Discounts available from Perkbox app, from high street shops to holidays & cinema.
• Wellbeing hub.
• Access to employee assistance programme.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Calling all culinary connoisseurs that are OBSESSED about food, we need you! Amazing opportunity within this premium contract catering site for a highly skilled and driven Head Chef. In the heart of The City of London, working for one of the UK's leading contract caterers Ifyou 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 creative, inclusive, experienced and passionate Head Chef to join our team.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

You will be a proactive and empowered Chef with a creative approach to food and a passion for delivering exceptional experiences in both our retail restaurant and fine dining hospitality. You should have extensive knowledge of the premium restaurant sector and be experienced in delivering exceptional food offerings. Strong leadership skills are essential.

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

Job Description

• Lead, Inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
• Build positive, credible and collaborativerelationships & communication methods with clientsand 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.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Head/Executive 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 performancee
• Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills
• Ability to prioritisemultiple 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

Additional Information

For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.

We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.

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.

Join us, and be part of the food revolution!

BaxterStorey Values:

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’d like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We celebrate individuality and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.

BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) among our workforce and aim for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.

Join us and bring your unique perspective to our team.