Executive Sous Chef - Luxury Resort Hotel

Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort and Spa; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hotel, F&B, golf, and retail discounts

Worldwide Marriott travel discounts

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Renaissance Birmingham Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa seeks an accomplished Executive Sous Chef to lead a diverse, high-volume culinary operation across restaurants, banquets, room service, and bars.

Working alongside the Executive Chef, you will develop talent, maintain standards, manage costs, and ensure safety and quality across all outlets. This pivotal role offers growth within a premier resort setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading a culinary team with strong kitchen operations, cost control, and sanitation.
• Hands-on leader capable of coaching and raising team standards.
• Commitment to exceptional quality, presentation, and guest experiences.
• Ability to manage multiple outlets and high-volume banquets in a resort setting.
• Formal culinary education preferred; ServSafe certification required.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily culinary operations across the resort, partnering with the Executive Chef to ensure execution and service excellence.
• Develop and inspire the culinary team through hands-on leadership, coaching, and staffing optimization.
• Drive culinary excellence by maintaining recipes, researching new products, and incorporating trends.
• Deliver exceptional banquet and outlet experiences through collaboration with Banquet and Restaurant teams.
• Manage food cost, production planning, inventory, and departmental expenses.

Skills

Culinary leadership

People management

Cost control

Sanitation adherence

Education

Formal culinary education

ServSafe certification

Job description

Executive Sous Chef

Renaissance Birmingham Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa | Birmingham, Alabama

Culinary Leadership. Exceptional Execution. Memorable Experiences.

Bring your culinary leadership to one of Alabama's premier resort destinations.

Renaissance Birmingham Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa is seeking an accomplished Executive Sous Chef to help lead a diverse, high-volume culinary operation spanning restaurants, banquets and catering, room service, bar and lounge offerings, and more.

Working alongside the Executive Chef, you'll be a key leader in bringing the resort's culinary vision to life. You'll lead and develop culinary talent, drive consistency and execution across multiple outlets, manage the operational and financial details behind a successful kitchen, and ensure every experience reflects our standards for quality, creativity, and hospitality.

For a talented culinary leader ready to make an impact at a distinctive full-service resort, this is an opportunity to take the next step.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Lead daily culinary operations across the resort, partnering closely with the Executive Chef to ensure exceptional execution, quality, consistency, presentation, and service.
• Develop and inspire the culinary team through hands-on leadership, training, coaching, and clear expectations while ensuring staffing levels support guest demand and financial objectives.
• Drive culinary excellence and innovation by maintaining recipes and standards, researching and testing new products, and bringing emerging culinary trends and ideas into the operation.
• Deliver exceptional banquet and outlet experiences by collaborating with the Banquet Chef and Restaurant and Catering teams to ensure seamless execution across the property's diverse food and beverage operation.
• Manage food cost and kitchen performance through accurate production planning, portion and waste controls, inventory and resource management, and attention to departmental expenses.
• Maintain exceptional safety and sanitation standards while ensuring compliance with food-handling requirements and applicable local, state, and federal regulations.
• Protect the operation and its resources by overseeing kitchen equipment maintenance and supporting appropriate management of culinary supplies, uniforms, and other operational needs.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for a culinary leader who combines creativity and passion for food with the operational discipline required to lead a complex resort kitchen.

• 5+ years of experience leading a culinary team, with strong knowledge of kitchen operations, food cost, production, inventory, purchasing, and sanitation.
• A hands-on leader with the ability to coach, motivate, develop, and hold a culinary team to high standards.
• A passion for culinary excellence with a commitment to exceptional quality, consistency, presentation, and memorable guest experiences.
• Strong organization and the ability to successfully manage multiple outlets, priorities, and service demands in a fast-paced hospitality environment.
• Ideally, formal culinary education preferred. ServSafe certifications required to comply with applicable local and state codes.

Why Ross Bridge?

Known affectionately as "The Castle," Renaissance Birmingham Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa offers an accomplished culinary leader the opportunity to work across a diverse resort food and beverage operation—not simply a single restaurant or kitchen.

The culinary experience spans several distinctive concepts and service styles including Brock's, offering an elevated fine-dining experience; the Clubhouse Restaurant, featuring the relaxed dining experience of a traditional golf resort; and JT's, a lively resort bar complemented by food offerings. Beyond the restaurants, the culinary team supports an extensive banquet and catering operation as well as a significant pool food and beverage experience serving resort guests.

That variety is matched by the scale of the property. The recently renovated resort features an expanded pool experience, an onsite golf course that is the fifth-longest in the world, and 18 event rooms with more than 25,000 square feet of event space and capacity for more than 1,000 guests in its largest space.

For an Executive Sous Chef, that means the opportunity to help lead culinary execution across fine dining, casual resort and golf dining, bar service, pool F&B, and high-volume banquets and events—providing an exceptional platform to broaden your experience, develop culinary teams, and make an impact across the resort.

Why PCH Hotels & Resorts?

As part of the PCH Hotels & Resorts portfolio, you'll join a hospitality organization committed to creating exceptional experiences for our guests while providing opportunities for talented hospitality professionals to grow their careers.

Our associates enjoy a variety of benefits and perks in addition to competitive compensation and annual bonus opportunities, including:

• Hotel, food & beverage, golf, and retail discounts throughout PCH properties
• Worldwide Marriott travel discounts
• Tuition reimbursement to support continued education and professional development
• And much more

If you're an experienced culinary leader who wants to lead talented people, influence a diverse resort food and beverage operation, and create experiences guests remember, we'd like to hear from you.

Join Renaissance Birmingham Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa and PCH Hotels & Resorts—where we believe in providing hospitality with heart & soul.