Head Chef voco Dubai InterContinental Hotels Group

As Head Chef you’ll direct all kitchen activities and prepare delicious food helping create memorable experiences for guests whenever and wherever they dine. You’ll also ensure quality, kitchen maintenance, and inventory functions kept to high standards – to make sure your kitchen is always running smoothly.

Responsibilities of Head Chef

The responsibilities of Head Chef are as follows

People

• Direct daily kitchen activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
• Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues – recognize good performance
• Recommend or initiate any HR elated actions where needed
• Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive – connect departments to create sense of one team
• Promote teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination with other departments. Communicate with all hotel department heads to stay informed of kitchen needs and ensure timely responses to requests.

Guest Experience

• Encourage guest feedback to improve guest satisfaction.
• Answer guest questions about dishes and kitchen services.
• Help the Food and Beverage Director with event planning.

 Responsible Business

• You’ll make sure dishes are always at their best –  have standards – but it’s down to you to make that room special and memorable for guests
• Keep an eye on competitor activity / industry innovation to develop your own ideas in the kitchen
• Make sure food and drinks are secure and stored safely – always keep stock replenished to minimize waste
• Ensure that all kitchen equipment and environment are hygienic and working properly
• Always follow governmental regulations and company policies and procedures
• Ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when have to pull together to get a task done.

Financial

• Complete forecasts, plans, and departmental production reports for management.
• Help prepare the hotel’s annual budget and the setting of departmental goals.
• Maintain costing and documentation of all dishes prepared and sold from the kitchen.

Accountabilities

• Supervise kitchen team with multiple major food and beverage outlets and banquet facilities with capacity to cater to more than 200 people.
• May oversee managers and/or supervisors and professional culinary staff.

Requirements of Head Chef

• Bachelor’s degree or certificate in culinary arts.
• Minimum 5 years of hotel experience.

Skills and Knowledge Desired

• Have strong drive for results, dynamic, possess good communication skills both verbal and written.
• Knowledge of computer accounting programs, math skills as well as budgetary analysis capabilities required.

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