Hospitality & Events Head Chef

Compass Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading catering company in Greater London is seeking a Hospitality & Events Head Chef to lead a dynamic kitchen team. This role involves overseeing all food production for events and catering, ensuring top-notch food safety, and developing innovative menus. Ideal candidates will have over 3 years of experience in a senior kitchen role and possess strong leadership skills. The position offers a salary of £50-£52k per annum along with various perks including holidays and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

28 Days Holidays + birthday off

Access to GP services

Training & development discounts

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a senior kitchen role.
• Proficiency in office software.
• Experience in HR practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead food production at the Central Production Kitchen.
• Ensure adherence to health and food safety regulations.
• Develop innovative and delicious menus with the Development Chef.
• Manage kitchen stock and supplies.
• Motivate and manage kitchen team performance.

Skills

Leadership skills

Food safety knowledge

Calm, can-do mindset

Knowledge of allergens and kitchen systems

Job description

We're on the hunt for a Hospitality & Events Head Chef to lead our buzzing kitchen brigade at Grazing HQ. This is a full-throttle, hands-on role running our central production kitchen - delivering mouth-watering food for workplace catering, events and delivery clients.

You'll bring the flavour, the fire, and the leadership to match - driving daily operations, inspiring your team, smashing service standards, and keeping quality, consistency and costs firmly on point.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Responsible and accountable for all hospitality & events food production and execution at our Central Production Kitchen (CPU) and, as required, on-site at client offices and event venues.
• Responsible for maintaining Health and Food Safety (HFS) for all areas of the production kitchen and back-of-house operation, in collaboration with the Health & Safety Manager.
• Responsible for overseeing safe allergens systems in order to comply with all legislation and requirements to provide customers with allergen information for all dishes.
• Reporting and managing maintenance issues and equipment status with the assistance of the Grazing Senior Team.
• Oversee the preparation and dispatch of food to ensure accurate and prompt delivery to customers.
• Responsible for overseeing the day-to-day ordering/purchasing of food stock in-line with financial targets and budgets.
• Ensures that all kitchen employees consistently adhere to company policy and standards.
• In conjunction with the Executive Chef, establish goals for the kitchen, anticipate and resolve problems concerning all facets of the kitchen, anticipate trends, enact approved profit-oriented and cost saving ideas/activities.
• Develop exciting, innovative and delicious menus with the Development Chef for our team catering, events, delivery & hospitality catering, costing dishes and preparing recipe specs.
• Ensure adherence to recipes and product specifications.
• Ensure adherence to allergens processes and labelling.
• Stock counting and monitoring to follow FIFO system.
• Train kitchen staff on all new menus. To communicate respectfully & positively with operational and on-site teams to enable the best possible customer experience.
• Responsible for the opening of the kitchen in the morning and the closing in the evening and to ensure there is a handover to Sous Chefs/Head KP.
• To motivate, develop and performance manage the kitchen team.
• Deliver onsite hospitality and events at our clients' premises, as needed.

What We're After:

• 3+ years in a senior kitchen role (CPU experience).
• Killer leadership skills and a calm, can-do mindset.
• Strong on food safety, allergens and kitchen systems.
• Proficiency in using standard office software and have a well-rounded computer knowledge.
• Creative, commercial and crazy about consistency.
• Knowledge and experience in HR practices.

You'll Love This Job If You:

Are all about flavour and team culture.

• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume kitchen.
• Want to help grow a values-driven food business.
• Don't mind loading a van or answering the phone if needed - we're a team, not a hierarchy.

Sound like your kind of gig?

Apply now and let's get cooking.

We're Grazing: food that works hard, plays nice, and always hits the spot.

• £50-£52k pa
• 28 Days Holidays + birthday offLots of other perks including GP access, discounts, training & development