Location
Fenchurch Street, London

Hours
Monday to Friday

Salary
Up to £53,000

About the Role
Calling all culinary connoisseurs that are OBSESSED about food, we need you! If you have an insatiable appetite for the culinary arts and a burning desire to create food that delights customers and clients, then look no further. At BaxterStorey, we offer an exceptional culinary playground where your creativity can flourish, your talents can shine, and we wholeheartedly believe in nourishing talent and empowering our chefs to continuously evolve, refine their craft, and create a development partnership together to ensure professional growth opportunities. This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled Head Chef to make a name for themselves within the food service industry and be a part of setting the new standard for workplace hospitality. You will manage a team including a Sous Chef, CDP, and KP to deliver consistency, located just by Fenchurch Street, delivering Hospitality & Events within a recently refurbished kitchen. Lead, inspire, collaborate, and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards while building positive, credible, and collaborative relationships with clients and other key stakeholders. Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment, creating a culture of excellence with your team, and striving to push the boundaries of brilliance through natural caring service, obsessive food standards, and innovation. Achieve business-critical KPIs including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial, and Governance.

Experience
Proven experience working as a Head Chef or in a similar role. You have an obsession for food and creating experiences, and managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date.

About you
You are financially astute, very analytical, and know how to create and maintain budgets while driving commercial performance. You possess excellent coaching, delegation, and influencing skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and thrive under pressure. You have meticulous organizational abilities and a high attention to detail, with empathetic, clear, and highly effective verbal and written communication skills. You can adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective, demonstrating excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills. You work according to the BaxterStorey core values.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications are listed, but a passion for culinary excellence and a commitment to team development are essential.