Head Chef – High-End Luxury Hotel and Restaurant
Location: New Forest, Hampshire
Salary: £41,250 + £2,000-3,000 Service Charge + Temporary live-in available + Fantastic Benefits
Our client, a stunning and iconic luxury country house hotel operation, is looking for a highly skilled, hands-on, passionate and creative Head 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. Not only are they well-known for their high-end brasserie, gastro pub and afternoon teas, the property also regularly hosts functions including luxury weddings and events.
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! You will have a talent for driving brigades of chefs increasing quality and consistency, sales and revenue. You will need an organised and consultative approach, have a good business and financial acumen, 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. You should hold your brigade's progression as paramount to their continued growth as a team and as individuals, which can only help the business to thrive. This can only be achieved through consistently delivering the exceptional experience for all customers with the highest standard of service, quality and safety.
Required Experience:
- Solid hands-on Head Chef experience in a high-end, fresh food kitchen (ideally previous rosette-level experience).
- 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.