Executive Head Chef

Executive Head Chef Birmingham, England

Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre
Full Time Birmingham, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

Job Ref: CG9052
Branch: Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre
Location: Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham
Salary/Benefits: Great Salary + Global Hotel discounts + Retail/leisure/cinema discounts + More
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Posted date: 24/04/2023
Closing date: 07/06/2023


Working with us provides great benefits, including:

  • Access your pay as you earn it through our financial wellbeing platform ‘Wagestream,’ a tool that lets you track your earnings in real-time, access a percentage of your pay as you earn it, learn easy tips for managing your money and save straight from your pay into pots for the future.
  • Discounted Hotel Stays across our UK sites, and if you work for a branded venue, around the World!
  • 50% off Food Beverage at all our Hotels FB Venues
  • Spa Discounts at our venues with a Spa
  • Retail, Cinema Leisure Discounts
  • Development Opportunities via our ‘Grow with us’ initiative, including Apprenticeship opportunities, our Development Programmes, and more!
  • Monthly ‘Star of the Month’ Awards
  • Long-service Awards, that start after 1 year of service
  • ‘Recommend a Friend’ Incentive – Be rewarded for referring someone you know!
  • Access to a confidential ‘Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)’ available 24/7, 365 days per year.
  • Pension Scheme
  • Other incentive programmes that run throughout the year

About the role…

As Executive Chef you'll be overall responsible for the Kitchen and its staff, directing all kitchen activities and ensuring the preparation of our delicious food - helping create memorable experiences for guests - whenever and wherever they dine. You'll also ensure quality, kitchen maintenance and inventory functions are kept to the highest standards - to make sure your kitchen is always running smoothly. In addition to being a fantastic Chef, you'll also be an amazing leader.

You will lead and inspire everyone in the brigade, from the kitchen porter to the sous chef. This can extend to front of house restaurant staff from time to time. The main purpose of the role is to manage the quality and food production of all catering and business at the venue, menu creation, accurate forecasting and GP achievement and ensuring legislative requirements are met.

About you…

  • Excellent cooking skills with a strong understanding of produce and ingredients
  • The ability to write menus that are both creative and profitable
  • Excellent leadership skills with experience of developing and leading a team
  • Strong communication skills through a variety of means
  • Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to stay calm under pressure, adapting your approach to complete routine and non-routine tasks
  • Exceptional organisation and planning skills through Standard operating procedures. High attention to detail and accuracy – great at managing one's own time and the time of the team
  • Drive self-motivated. Excellent knowledge of kitchen related legislative requirements/audits HACCP
  • Experience of budget management with a good understanding of PLs and KPIs

About us…

At Cairn Group we're ambitious. With a varied and extensive UK portfolio of hotels, bars and restaurants in our portfolio, we're focused on continual growth and are in it for the long haul. We are a family owned business with family values at our core, with a growing team and sites UK wide.

The Cairn Group’s Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre is a modern hotel conveniently located near to the Birmingham New Street train station.
The hotel is within an easy walk of the great bars and restaurants found in the Arcadian complex, as well as both the Hippodrome and New Alexandra theatres, Birmingham’s China Town district, The Mailbox shopping centre and the Bullring commercial area.

Benefits:
IHG Staff Rate Scheme
IHG Friends Family Rate
IHG Brand Training
Cairn Group Staff Discount Scheme
Retail and travel discounts
Recruit a friend Scheme
Induction and training programme
Star of the Month Golden Ticket Award
Pension scheme
'Cairn Academy' Training Development Opportunities
Uniform
Cycle 2 work scheme*
(* Applies to positions above minimum wage)

Executive Head Chef
Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre

www.ihg.com
Canton, United States
Keith Barr
Unknown / Non-Applicable
51 to 200 Employees
Subsidiary or Business Segment
Hotels & Resorts
2003
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