Senior Sous Chef

Harrods; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury retail emporium in the UK seeks a Senior Sous Chef to lead the brigade and ensure quality food production. Responsibilities include managing the team's operations, ensuring compliance with health standards, and effectively sourcing food stocks. Ideal candidates will have extensive hospitality experience, confidence in leadership, and strong organizational skills. The role offers competitive salary, bonus, and a supportive work environment with opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Paid overtime rate

Access to subsidised Staff Canteen

33 days' annual leave plus birthday off

Up to 33% discount

Generous pension scheme

Qualifications

• Strong track record of hospitality experience in fine dining or private clubs.
• Ability to lead a team and manage production quality.
• Effective at coaching and inspiring staff to adhere to standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations and ensure quality standards.
• Oversee food stock ordering and storage.
• Comply with Health & Safety regulations and documentation.

Skills

Leadership

Time-management

Customer focus

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Tools

SAP

Excel

Word

Job description

Job Overview

As a Senior Sous Chef, you'll be responsible for the day to day operations of your brigade to ensure the highest quality of product is being produced. By leading your team and assisting the Head Chef in all managerial duties, you'll be responsible for setting daily production levels, monitoring all goods received from internal and external vendors and production, ensuring that quality standards are met.

You’ll manage the day-to-day administration and production ensuring compliance to internal systems including SAP.

In this role, you'll also be responsible for effective storage, ordering food stock and planning production levels to minimise wastage and ensure that stock checks are completed in a timely manner. By adhering to all Health & Safety regulations and procedures, you'll set a high standard of food safety in the daily operations.

You’ll have a strong track record of hospitality experience, preferably within a high-end fine dining or private members club environment. You'll need to be confident in leading your team to drive quality and ensure specs are followed always. Having a great knowledge and passion for food and drink is essential. You'll have great time‑management skills and a strong customer focus when dealing with both internal and external parties.

You’ll have exceptional interpersonal skills and a good attention to detail, which will be evident through paperwork completed, organisation of department and sufficient stock levels. By coaching, inspiring and motivating the team, you'll be able to demonstrate effective leadership and management skills. Reporting to the Head Chef, you'll build effective relationships with support functions including Food Halls, Restaurants, Food Safety, Distribution and HR. Having good PC literacy is a must (Word, Excel and preferably SAP). While our job adverts outline the ideal qualities, skills, and prior experience for the role, we believe in the potential for growth and value individual strengths. If you do not meet every desired criteria but feel you have the skills and experience to thrive in this role as well as a genuine interest in working for Harrods and you can demonstrate an alignment with our values, we would encourage you to apply.

As the world's leading luxury retail emporium, we make the impossible possible, and our hospitality offer is evolving and expanding rapidly across our stores. We are a welcoming and close‑knit family who are passionate about food and beverage and aim to craft dining experiences that are the highlight of our customers' visits.

Our Promise To You

Help us make the impossible possible for our customers and we'll do something remarkable for you. As well as offering a friendly environment to inspire your best work, we provide abundant opportunities and support to build an exceptional career across the varied specialisms of our business. At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes, and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

If you want to know more about our people and our culture, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, Facebook or follow us on Instagram @togetherharrods

Benefits

• Competitive annual salary (plus annual bonus)
• Set contracted hours (45 per week) – paid additional working hours at an overtime rate of x1.5 p/h
• Access to subsidised Staff Canteen
• 33 days' annual leave + birthday off (including Bank holidays)
• Up to 33% Harrods discount
• Generous company pension scheme and much more

Uniquely You

Uniquely You