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Development Chef New

com/1710/435800/52690003/SU

£45000 per annum

Exeter

United Kingdom

Contract Catering

ASAP

18/10/2024

17/11/2024

Permanent | Full Time

  • Company Car or Car Allowance
  • Monday to Friday
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes
  • Quick access for you and your immediate family to a Digital GP, and wider healthcare benefits
  • Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more
  • Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
  • Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
  • Receive cash rewards every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
  • Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
  • You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families
  • Plan, organise and direct the preparation and cooking of food ensuring that the company’s reputation for quality is delivered and maintained in line with contractual requirements
  • Delivering first class training to staff to enhance culinary skills and food quality
  • Plan and deliver outstanding hospitality events
  • Driving sales through centrally driven menu planning, promotions and preferred suppliers
  • Responsible for all aspects of food safety, HSE and COSHH
  • To implement and maintain food monitoring procedures to facilitate budgetary control and to monitor all costs involved in the kitchen against agreed budgets
  • Work periodically with the wider culinary team to enhance skills and support central culinary initiatives and projects
  • Support the daily operational needs of the business
  • Executive Chef
  • Business Director and Operations Teams
  • Regional Culinary Team
  • Ingredient and Recipe Manager
  • Onsite teams
  • Chartwells Marketing Team
  • Chartwells Nutrition Team
  • Clients and School SLT’s
  • Ability to get the best out of our people through team leadership and coaching
  • Proven culinary background in a similar foodservice function
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent presentation skills to large and small groups
  • Ability to analyse and evaluate information
  • Demonstrates Compass values and recognition principles
  • Experience of using process and planning to deliver consistent results
  • Ability to quickly gain credibility with key stakeholder groups
  • Obsessive about great service with client and customer focus
  • Experience working in a culinary/catering role in an education environment
  • Passion for great food and excellent service delivery
  • Experience in training culinary skills
  • Financially astute with ability to understand and deliver food costings and margin management initiatives
  • Ability to work on own initiative but within a framework
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Ability to work away from home when required.


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