Location
London, Bloomsbury

Hours
5 out of 7 days, 7 day operation

Salary
Up to £55,000 per annum

About the Role
Calling all culinary connoisseurs who are obsessed with food! At BaxterStorey, we offer an exceptional culinary playground where your creativity can flourish and your talents can shine. We believe in nourishing talent and empowering our chefs to continuously evolve, refine their craft and create a development partnership to ensure professional growth opportunities. This exciting Executive Head Chef role is based in a Bloomsbury location, serving meals to onsite residents for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of the week. You will also support a hotel breakfast offer and a busy conference and events operation, including sit-down dinners for up to 250 guests and weddings.

As Executive Head Chef, you will lead, inspire, collaborate with, and support your team to deliver consistently exceptional standards. You will build positive, credible, and collaborative relationships with clients and key stakeholders. Developing your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment will be a key focus. You will create a culture of excellence, pushing the boundaries of brilliance through caring service, obsessive food standards, and innovation. Achieving business-critical KPIs including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial, and Governance targets will be essential.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a name for yourself within the food service industry and be part of setting new standards for workplace hospitality.

Benefits
28 days holiday including bank holidays plus your birthday off
3 volunteering days
3 days grandparent leave
24 weeks enhanced maternity leave
Secondary carer leave
Wedding/commitment day leave
Free meals on shift
Bespoke training and development opportunities
Apprenticeship opportunities for all experience levels
Pension and life insurance
Discounts via Perkbox app including high street shops, holidays & cinema
Wellbeing hub
Access to employee assistance programme
Cycle to work scheme

Experience
Proven experience working as a Head Chef or in a similar senior culinary role
Demonstrable experience managing, training, and supporting a team
Strong financial acumen with the ability to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance

About you
Obsessed with food and creating memorable culinary experiences
Excellent coaching, delegation, and influencing skills
Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and thrive under pressure
Meticulous organisational skills with high attention to detail
Empathetic, clear, and highly effective verbal and written communication
Solution-oriented mindset with the ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities
Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
Aligned with BaxterStorey’s core values of being visionary, positive, collaborative, and conscious

Qualifications
Relevant culinary qualifications are advantageous but not explicitly stated; passion, experience, and leadership skills are key