Executive Chef - EC

Montage International; Laguna Beach (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Montage International seeks an Executive Chef to lead the culinary program, overseeing strategic vision, profitability, and guest experience at the Hotel. You will supervise sous chefs, develop menus, and ensure top-tier service and quality.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive menu development experience, and the ability to manage food and labor costs while delivering exceptional guest experiences in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum three years’ experience as an Executive Chef in a comparable hotel.
• Expertise in food product, presentation, quality and preparation along with menu concept and menu design required.
• Previous experience with creating schedules, labor costing, payroll administration required.
• Strong interpersonal and problem solving abilities.
• Must be able to work well under pressure in a fast paced environment, and focus attention on guest needs, remaining calm and courteous at all times.
• Requires good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Must possess basic computational ability.
• Knowledge of computer accounting programs, math skills as well as budgetary analysis capabilities required.
• Extensive knowledge of menu development, insight into marketing, cost and wage control.
• Thorough knowledge of food products, standard recipes and proper preparation.
• Ability to analyze, forecast data, and make judgments to ensure proper payroll and production control.
• Ability to supervise large staff and accomplish goals on a timely basis.
• Ability to conduct meetings, menu briefings and maintain communication lines between line staff and Executive Assistant Manager, Food & Beverage.
• Ability to effectively deal with internal and external customers some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact and diplomacy and collect accurate information to resolve conflicts.
• Ability to create recipes and support material, i.e., recipe cards, descriptions, and pictures, and to read and visualize same.
• Artistic ability to create theme menus, ideas for ice carvings, decorations, etc.

Responsibilities

• Train, supervise, and schedule line cooks; manage menus, storage, and inventory.
• Enhance the quality of food presented to guests.
• Respond to marketplace and guest needs with menu changes.
• Recommend changes to the food products.
• Use market research to develop new products and ensure consistency in food delivery and standards.
• Be a primary media representative for food and beverage offerings at the Hotel.
• Support the Executive Committee, especially the Director of Food & Beverage and Managers.
• Work toward F&B profitability and service performance.
• Hire, train, and develop department staff.
• Control costs and major operating expenses.
• Set margins and manage business against projections.
• Make profit and loss decisions.
• Create custom and sustainable menu options.
• Ensure adherence to BEOs and changes.
• Attend operational meetings.

Skills

Executive chef experience

Menu design

Labor costing

Staff supervision

Communication skills

Problem solving

Budgeting analysis

Menu development

Recipe creation

Forecast data analysis

Meet goals

Meet deadlines (meetings)

Customer diplomacy

Recipe documentation

Theme menu design

Tools

Computer accounting software

Job description

Live Your Passion. Add Your Magic.

At Montage International, we are doing something different, something exciting and it takes passionate people to bring our vision to life. We have built a culture that leads with the important notion we live by every day; do what you love. If this resonates with you, we look forward to receiving your application.

We welcome applicants with disabilities and provide reasonable accommodations as needed to our applicants. Please discuss with our hiring managers during our selection processes.

Executive Chef

SUMMARY

The Executive Chef will provide the highest quality culinary experience to our guests. The Executive Chef is responsible for the development and oversight of the overall strategic vision of the culinary program, including profitable financial management, effective leadership of sous chefs, excellent customer service skills, and supervision of department requirements and standards.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Job duties include, although are not limited to:

• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of the Hotel kitchens including but not limited to: training, supervision and scheduling of all line associates, execution of all menu items, ordering, proper storage, organization and inventory of all products, training and implementation of all sanitation procedures, developing menu items, menu matrix and recipes while managing food and labor costs.
• Responsible for enhancing the quality of food product that is presented to guests.
• Make changes that respond to the marketplace and to guests’ needs, both present and anticipated.
• Recommend changes to the food product.
• Use market research to develop new products and ensure consistency in food delivery and standards.
• Be a primary representative in media outlets, both print and televised, for food and beverage offerings at the Hotel.
• Provide support of a specialist nature to the Executive Committee, particularly to the Director of Food & Beverage, and the Food & Beverage Managers and Directors.
• Work in support of team goals and measures effectiveness through the Food & Beverage profit and service performance of the hotel.
• Responsible for the selection, training and development of the personnel within the department.
• Control the elements that determine profit and loss.
• Responsible for all major operating expenses.
• Set margins and manage the business against projections.
• Make decisions that relate to profit and loss.
• Responsible for the financial management of the operation.
• Create custom menus
• Create sustainable menu options
• Responsible for following BEOs and ensuring any changes are made
• Attend operational meetings

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum threeyears’ experience as an ExecutiveChef in a comparable hotel environment.
• Expertise in food product, presentation, quality and preparation along with menu concept and menu design required.
• Previous experience with creating schedules, labor costing, payroll administration, employee performance management required.
• Strong interpersonal and problem solving abilities.
• Must be able to work well under pressure in a fast paced environment, and focus attention on guest needs, remaining calm and courteous at all times.
• Requires good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Must possess basic computational ability.
• Knowledge of computer accounting programs, math skills as well as budgetary analysis capabilities required.
• Extensive knowledge of menu development, insight into marketing, cost and wage control.
• Thorough knowledge of food products, standard recipes and proper preparation.
• Ability to analyze, forecast data, and make judgments to ensure proper payroll and production control.
• Ability to supervise large staff and accomplish goals on a timely basis.
• Ability to conduct meetings, menu briefings and maintain communication lines between line staff and Executive Assistant Manager, Food & Beverage.
• Ability to effectively deal with internal and external customers some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact and diplomacy and collect accurate information to resolve conflicts.
• Ability to create recipes and support material, i.e., recipe cards, descriptions, and pictures, and to read and visualize same.
• Artistic ability to create theme menus, ideas for ice carvings, decorations, etc.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Constant standing and walking throughout shift. Occasional environmental exposures to cold, heat, and water. The individual must be able to transport up to 50 pounds on occasion and up to 35 pounds regularly.

The pay scale for the Executive Chef ranges from $150,000.00 to $180,000.00. The pay scale is the base salary or hourly wage range, exclusive of incentive pay such as commissions, piece rates, gratuities, and the like, that Montage reasonably expects to pay for the position. Please let us know if you have any questions.

In the United States we are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.