Head Chef
$72,800,000–$72,800,000 year
On-siteLeeds, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Inspire, collaborate, and support direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards while building positive relationships with clients and key stakeholders. Continually develop the team through mentoring, training, and empowerment to create a culture of excellence driven by obsessive food standards and innovation. Achieve business-critical KPIs including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial, and Governance targets. Manage budgets and drive commercial performance with analytical precision while prioritizing multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted creative environment. Work according to BaxterStorey core values across office, stadium, cathedral, and university locations, ensuring every customer receives the hospitality experience they deserve.
Required Qualifications
- Must have experience of working in a large busy location
- Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role
- Have an obsession for food and creating experiences
- You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date
- Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance
- Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills
- Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure
- Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail
- Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication
- Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective
- Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
- Works according to the BaxterStorey core values
Desired Qualifications
- Inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards
- Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships & communication methods with clients and other key stakeholders in the business
- Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment
- Create a culture of excellence with your team, continually striving to push the boundaries of brilliance through natural caring service, obsessive food standards and innovation
- Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance
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