Sous Chef – High End Gastro Pub and Restaurant
Location: New Forest, Hampshire
Salary: Up to £36,250 + £2,000-3,000 Service Charge + Temporary live-in available + Fantastic Benefits
** In order to be considered, you must have solid high-end fresh food experience. Temporary live-in available for relocators. Due to public transport restrictions, commuters must driver and have their own car/transport **
Our client, a stunning luxury hotel and gastro pub operation, is looking for a highly skilled, hands-on, passionate Sous Chef with strong quality fresh food experience to assist in the running of their popular operation based in the New Forest area of Hampshire. With their impressive offerings showcasing their collection of mouth-watering dishes created from fresh locally sourced seasonal produce, this operation offers a true taste of Hampshire from field to fork.
Reporting to the Head Chef, you will be a natural leader with a huge passion for creating high-end dishes from locally sourced seasonal produce and get a real kick out of coaching, motivating and developing your team leading them on to even greater success! All whilst ensuring that customer satisfaction and quality standards are of paramount priority.
The culture is key to the success of the operation. With this in mind you should be an incredible motivator, trainer, coach and manager of people.
Required Experience:
- Solid hands-on Sous Chef or Senior Sous Chef experience in a high-end, fresh food kitchen.
- Excellent fresh food knowledge and a passion for locally sourced produce.
- A creative flare and experience of creating seasonal dishes from scratch.
- Experience of leading, motivating, training and developing a team of different personalities, levels of creativity and skillsets.
- Strong financial knowledge (GPs, revenue, quality/portion control) or at least a knowledge of the impact it has on the business
- Experience of managing a smaller brigade
- A great personality - fun, passionate, charismatic, enthusiastic, people-focused and adaptable to all personalities.
- A great communicator - excellent at developing relationships with the kitchen team, front of house team, senior management and others involved
Should you be successful, you will benefit from:
- A fantastic salary package + service charge
- A highly regarded company
- Friendly working environment
- Free parking
- Company perks including discounts across the wider group and leisure membership.
- Free meals on duty
This is a quality company with an excellent reputation and offers great scope for future development.
In order to ensure your enquiry with regards to this position is dealt with quickly, please send in an up-to-date copy of your Curriculum Vitae in a Word Document format.