| Job Type: | permanent | Duration: | |
| Category: | Food / Bar / Hospitality | Recruiter Reference: | SDX/TP/RF010879/SL |
| URL for Applications: | Apply Here | Salary: | £29,995pa + excellent benefits |
Sodexo Live! have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Head Chef to be based at Everton Free School in Liverpool.
We would love you to join our team in this exciting role and be responsible for overseeing and managing the kitchen operation leading the kitchen operations team to deliver service excellence.
You will be passionate about food and an engaging leader, able to lead manage and develop a team.
What you'll do:
- Manage the day-to-day activities within all aspects of kitchen operations. To drive customer satisfaction and embed customer advocacy within the kitchen operations team.
- To ensure that all costs and expenditure are within confines of the agreed budget.
- Lead the kitchen operations team to deliver service excellence; grow services in order to meet client and commercial expectations.
- Write menus and continuously work to develop and improve the food proposition at Everton Football Club, ensuring that our offer remains on trend and relevant within the wider hospitality sector.
- Recruit, train and develop, ensuring the continual succession planning of the kitchen operations team.
- Ensure that the Sodexo Purchasing policies and procedures are managed and upheld by the kitchen operations team.
- To implement and comply with all Sodexo and statutory Health and Safety and Food Hygiene requirements. To manage and ensure accountability for good housekeeping, stock management and rotation, COSHH, cleanliness and tidiness.
- To work closely with the FOH Operations and Sales and Marketing team to ensure seamless interface between the three departments.
- To oversee and manage all internal Client services including the EFC Staff Café, Free School, Community Centre and any future projects.
For a full list of responsibilities please view the attached job description
What you bring:
Essential
- Demonstrate experience of working in a similar role within the service industry at a comparable level in a company
- Good numerical and communication skills must be able to demonstrate effective verbal and written communication.
- Management knowledge of health & safety and food safety
- Able to work on own initiative within a team environment.
- Able to demonstrate working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook)
- Able to demonstrate attention to detail and adherence to standards.
- Analyse problems analytically, develop opportunities and implement innovative solutions.
Desirable
- IOSH qualification or equivalent
- Supervising Food – Level 3
- Proven experience of managing client relationships
- Proven track record of leading, managing and developing a team.
- Experience of working in a similar environment
If you are customer centric and have the desire to deliver the optimum client service, we want to hear from you! Our experiences are unique, and so are our people. Bring personality, your background and your desire for delighting others. In return we’ll give you all you need to thrive.