Executive Chef - Holiday Inn Chennai
Negotiable
Job Description
style="font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -1.1pt;">What is
the job?
As Executive Chef you’ll
direct all kitchen activities and prepare our 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 our high
standards - to make sure your kitchen is always running
smoothly.
Your day to day
style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">People
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">Direct daily kitchen activities, plan and assign work
ensuring you always have the right staffing
numbers
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">Develop your team and improve their performance through
coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals
for colleagues - recognise good
performance
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">Recommend or initiate any HR elated actions where
needed
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive –
connect departments to create sense of one
team
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">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
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style="font-size: 12pt;">•Encourage guest feedback to improve guest
satisfaction •
style="font-size: 12pt;">Answer guest questions about dishes and kitchen
services
•
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planning
style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> Responsible Business
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style="font-size: 12pt;">•You’ll make sure our dishes are always
at their best - we have standards - but it’s down to you to make that room
special and memorable for guests •
style="font-size: 12pt;">Keep an eye on competitor activity / industry
innovation to develop your own ideas in
the kitchen
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">Make sure food and drinks are secure and stored safely
– always keep stock replenished to minimise
waste
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure that all kitchen equipment and environment
are hygienic and working properly
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style="font-size: 12pt;">•Always follow governmental regulations
and company policies and procedures
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style="font-size: 12pt;">•Ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when
we have to pull together to get a task done
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Financial
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">Complete forecasts, plans, and departmental production
reports for management
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">Help prepare the hotel’s annual budget and the setting
of departmental goals
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">Maintain costing and documentation of all dishes
prepared and sold from the kitchen
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Accountabilities
style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Supervise kitchen team in a large, luxury, or resort hotel with multiple
major food and beverage outlets and banquet facilities with capacity to cater
to more than 500 people. May oversee managers and/or supervisors
and professional culinary staff
style="color: rgb(232, 83, 42); font-family: Arial;">What we need
from you
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">Degree or certificate in culinary
arts
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">5 years’ experience as
a chef
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speak local language(s)
•
style="font-size: 12pt;">At least one year in a supervisory capacity,
or equivalent combination of education and culinary/kitchen operations
experience
How do I deliver this?
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We genuinely care about people and we show this through living
out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every
colleague in all IHG® hotels.
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Each IHG® hotel brand delivers True Hospitality in their own way, and
at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills.
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·True Attitude:
being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building
genuine connections with guests
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