Executive Chef
On-siteMuscat, Muscat, Oman
Job Summary
Coordinate purchasing for kitchen and stewarding departments, monitor food costs against monthly targets, and oversee departmental operating expenses within budget. Conduct interviews for candidates with HR, prepare job descriptions, and manage staff scheduling posted seven days in advance. Lead daily briefings and monthly meetings, train team members on operational standards and revenue targets, and ensure full compliance with HACCAP standards and safety policies. Drive performance appraisals, coaching, and service delivery while fostering a sales-focused environment to maximize revenue streams and maintain high guest satisfaction.
Required Qualifications
- Complete understanding of and adherence to Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts policy relating to Fire, Hygiene, Health and Safety
- Full compliance with local municipality HACCAP standards and certification
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in coordinating purchasing for the Kitchen and stewarding departments
- Experience conducting interviews for candidates in the department in conjunction with Human Resources
- Experience preparing job descriptions
- Experience monitoring departmental work schedules
- Experience overseeing departmental payroll
- Experience coordinating with Sales and Marketing on Food and Beverage Marketing collateral
- Experience looking at new potential revenue streams including outside catering opportunities
- Experience training and developing kitchen and stewarding teams
- Experience leading daily departmental briefings and monthly employee meetings
- Experience driving performance of kitchen and stewarding team members including performance appraisals, coaching, and counselling
- Experience fostering a winning, solution-oriented work environment
- Experience motivating and engaging employees to continuously deliver the best possible service
- Experience ensuring guests are communicated with and assisted in an efficient, warm and professional manner
- Experience maximizing and improving operation through productivity management and energy savings programs
- Experience ensuring all menus are accurately costed, have standard recipes and presentation photos
- Experience ensuring all new menu items include service staff education and tasting
- Experience ensuring staff scheduling is done effectively and in line with business demands
- Experience ensuring departmental work schedules are posted seven (7) days in advance
- Experience ensuring all team members are aware of all F&B revenue targets as well as food cost targets
- Experience ensuring all team members are aware of sales opportunities within the hotel
- Experience ensuring all team members are aware of a.l.c Housekeeping & Handyman services available to guests
- Experience up selling Housekeeping & Handyman services as a preferred supplier
- Experience developing organizational policy and procedural development
- Experience providing feedback and suggestions
- Experience having a sales focused attitude
- Experience maximizing revenue
- Experience achieving financial, operational and service delivery targets
- Experience working in a supportive place to grow
- Experience pursuing career opportunities in hospitality environments
- Experience working in a caring environment
- Experience working in a team where you can be all you are
- Experience discovering other professions
- Experience creating lasting, memorable and impactful experiences for customers, colleagues and the planet
- Experience working in a responsible hospitality environment
- Experience innovating and challenging the status-quo
- Experience working in a hotel or in other hospitality environments
- Experience working in your country or anywhere in the world
- Experience working with the finance team
- Experience ensuring monthly targets are achieved without undermining the agreed product quality
- Experience adhering to and monitoring departmental operating expenses as per departmental budget and forecast
- Experience reviewing and monitoring departmental work schedules
- Experience assisting the Food & Beverage Manager with the preparation and conversion on departments promotions calendar
- Experience coordinating together with Food & Beverage Operations with changing programmes and promotions according to seasonality
- Experience ensuring that departmental payroll is in line with budgets
- Experience ensuring menus have standard recipes and presentation photos
- Experience ensuring all new menu items include service staff education and tasting
- Experience ensuring guests are communicated with and assisted in an efficient, warm and professional manner
- Experience ensuring all team members are aware of all F&B revenue targets as well as food cost targets
- Experience ensuring all team members are aware of sales opportunities within the hotel
- Experience ensuring all team members are aware of a.l.c Housekeeping & Handyman services available to guests
- Experience up selling Housekeeping & Handyman services as a preferred supplier
- Experience maintaining a consistent focus on improving the overall flow of the kitchen operations
- Experience seeking ways to maximize and improve the operation through productivity management and energy savings programs
- Experience leading and supporting employees in the achievement of financial, operational and service delivery targets
- Experience providing effective organizational policy and procedural development
- Experience providing appropriate employee training activities
- Experience fostering a winning, solution-oriented work environment
- Experience motivating and engaging employees to continuously deliver the best possible service
- Experience providing feedback and suggestions
- Experience leading daily departmental briefings and monthly employee meetings
- Experience having a complete understanding of and to adhere to Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts policy relating to Fire, Hygiene, Health and Safety
- Experience driving the performance of the kitchen and stewarding team members
- Experience including completion of performance appraisals, coaching counselling and performance management in conjunction with Human Resources
- Experience ensuring the team work within the department with a sales focused attitude
- Experience ensuring the team are aware of sales opportunities within the hotel
- Experience assisting with the maximization of revenue
- Experience ensuring guests are communicated with and assisted in an efficient, warm and professional manner by all team members
- Experience ensuring all team members are aware of all F&B revenue targets as well as food cost targets
- Experience ensuring all team members are kept informed of performance results
- Experience ensuring all menus are accurately costed
- Experience ensuring all menus have standard recipes
- Experience ensuring all menus have presentation photos
- Experience ensuring all new menu items to include service staff education
- Experience ensuring all new menu items to include tasting
- Experience ensuring staff scheduling is done effectively
- Experience ensuring staff scheduling is done in line with business demands
- Experience ensuring staff scheduling is posted seven (7) days in advance
- Experience coordinating purchasing for the Kitchen and stewarding departments with the finance team
- Experience coordinating purchasing for the Kitchen and stewarding departments as per the hotel procedures
- Experience conducting interviews for candidates in the department in conjunction with Human Resources
- Experience preparing job descriptions
- Experience daily monitoring of the Food Cost to ensure monthly targets are achieved
- Experience ensuring monthly targets are achieved without undermining the agreed product quality
- Experience adhering to and monitoring departmental operating expenses as per departmental budget and forecast
- Experience reviewing and monitoring departmental work schedules
- Experience overseeing that departmental payroll is in line with budgets
- Experience assisting the Food & Beverage Manager with the preparation and conversion on departments promotions calendar
- Experience coordinating together with Food & Beverage Operations with changing programmes and promotions according to seasonality
- Experience coordinating with Sales and Marketing so that all Food and Beverage Marketing collateral is prepared in advance
- Experience ensuring that staff scheduling is done effectively and in line with business demands
- Experience ensuring that staff scheduling is posted seven (7) days in advance
- Experience ensuring all menus are accurately costed
- Experience ensuring all menus have standard recipes
- Experience ensuring all menus have presentation photos
- Experience ensuring all new menu items to include service staff education and tasting
- Experience ensuring Full compliance with local municipality HACCAP standards and certification
- Experience looking at new potential revenue streams including outside catering opportunities
- Experience Train and develop the kitchen and stewarding team in the departmental operating standards
- Experience Ensure all kitchen team members are aware of the a.l.c Housekeeping & Handyman services available to guests
- Experience Ensure all kitchen team members are skilled in up selling them as a preferred supplier
- Experience Maintain a consistent focus on improving the overall flow of the kitchen operations
- Experience seeking ways to maximize and improve the operation through productivity management and energy savings programs
- Experience To lead and support employees in the achievement of financial, operational and service delivery targets
- Experience via effective organizational policy and procedural development
- Experience and appropriate employee training activities
- Experience Foster a winning, solution-oriented work environment
- Experience motivating and engaging employees to continuously deliver the best possible service
- Experience to provide feedback and suggestions
- Experience To lead daily departmental briefings and monthly employee meetings
- Experience To have a complete understanding of and to adhere to Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts policy relating to Fire, Hygiene, Health and Safety
- Experience To drive the performance of the kitchen and stewarding team members
- Experience including completion of performance appraisals, coaching counselling and performance management in conjunction with Human Resources
- Experience Ensure the team work within the department with a sales focused attitude
- Experience and team are aware of sales opportunities within the hotel
- Experience which will assist with the maximization of revenue
- Experience Ensure all team members are aware of all F&B revenue targets as well as food cost targets
- Experience and are kept informed of performance results
- Experience Ensure guests are communicated with and assisted in an efficient, warm and professional manner by all team members
- Experience Your team and working environment
- Experience In 1-2 sentences, introduce the team, property or office environment in a way that reflects the culture
- Experience Note: Customization may be included for any specific local or legislative requirements, such as work permits
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