Why join Apex Hotels?
You will receive a warm welcome into the Apex family on joining us as a Head Chef in Dundee. We genuinely care about our guests and each other and we show this through our family values of Trust, Passion, Friendliness and Teamwork. We encourage you to bring your own unique personality to the role and being yourself whilst working as part of the Kitchen team as we believe it is our personality, style and friendliness that makes Apex Hotels
Role Overview:
A phenomenal opportunity for an exceptional individual. After eight years under the previous Head Chef where the department has gone from strength to strength, we are now looking for an ambitious and high-performing chef to come in and take it to the next stage. This is a genuinely rare chance to lead the busiest, biggest and most prestigious food operation in Dundee and Tayside, we are looking for an established Head Chef ready to come in and support our Grill and Banqueting chefs in our busy outlets.
We are looking for a modern, progressive chef ready to fit in with our high-performing but fun culture, where we strive to be industry leading in our delivery of our food offering across all areas. We are looking for that exceptional person who can ensure that breakfast is delivered consistently to all our guests at high quality, who can ensure that our restaurant offering is current, priced accordingly, appealing and delivered to the highest quality level, and who is also comfortable at managing and delivering events up to 800 people.
As Head Chef your role will be to deliver all this, through phenomenal, positive management of our team of chefs and kitchen porters, supporting them positively through day to day delivery, and ensuring there is a culture of development and progression personally, through your guidance. You will work closely with our internal support services, supply chain, and all other stakeholders to deliver across all key deliverables. In keeping with the senior role, these include commercial acumen to support delivery of commercial budgets, financial awareness and ability around food cost and appropriate forecasting, strong knowledge of food safety and ability to embed this in the culture, and delivery with the team, creating an engaged and passionate team who will support you in delivering exceptional guest feedback.
Lastly, you will be part of a high performing hotel leadership team, where you will play your part in supporting delivery of hotel wide initiatives designed to improve staff engagement, guest delivery, and our part in the wider Dundee community.
Main Responsibilities:
- Leading a phenomenal team across the kitchen, supporting the Grill and Banqueting chefs in delivering exceptional food and service across all outlets
- Training, development and inspirational leadership for all in the kitchen, creating a culture of excellence and improvement, and creating pathways for chefs of the future to progress through your kitchen
- Fully accountable for management of all kitchen areas, ensuring the are operating within company standards and fully compliant with all Food safety and H&S legislation.
- Responsible for ensuring consistent food quality across all areas, working with all teams to ensure this is a continual focus, and delivers the quality in keeping with our reputation and in all areas of the business
- Full profit control responsibility, ensuring menus are appropriately costed, food waste is controlled assertively, and all measures are taken to maximise profit delivery
- Working with the F&B Manager and other key stakeholders to continually improve our offering, and take advantage of all revenue opportunities, with our commercial performance always at the forefront of your mind
- Coaching, training and supporting all Chefs and apprentices to provide consistently high standards, while continually looking to improve. You'll have the talent to build, develop and motivate a team to deliver excellent levels of customer care.
- Prepare and respond to all audits completed by the company appropriately
- Controlling the Kitchen budget, in relation to occupancy, departmental expenses and team rota's.
About you:
You will be a Head Chef at the very top of your game – we have no quiet time, and we set ourselves high standards, and looking for a Head Chef to do the same, and someone who will lead and inspire all around them, creating a high performing team but also being an integral part of our leadership team. You will have immense pride in positively bringing the most out in all your team, creating a culture of excellence, and using your passion for food to create that culture in that team. You will have an in-depth knowledge of food safety as well as cost control and leveraging your commercial skills to grow revenue in all areas in concert with key stakeholders.
This is a vital role in the function of the hotel and ultimately one that guests will remember the most. You will be great at multi-tasking, you will be efficient at solving all guest enquiries and requests with ease, with a positive attitude to all requests
We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in. To excel within this role, you will:
- Ensure our guests experience and the food is presented to a high spec
- You'll be passionate about nurturing and developing your team through development programs and mentoring
- Great organiser and who can prioritise your workload
- Previous experience at Head Chef level is essential, or Senior Sous Chef at larger, more prestigious properties.
- You will have previous managerial experience within a similar role.
- Experience of working in a 4 or 5 star hotel or similar is essential
You'll work with great people, enjoy your time at work, develop new friendships, networks, and skills, and of course you'll also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes:
- 35 days holiday
- Training and development from day one
- Employee events and celebrations
- Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP
- Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools
- Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working.
- Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial Wellbeing App Wagestream, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date.
- £200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team.
Following your first successful 3 months, you’ll also receive ……
- Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform “Treat Yourself Here”, unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family.
- Involvement in our employee of the quarter and annual recognition schemes
- Long service recognition
- Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two
- 50% discount in our restaurants
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family
- Spa treatments and product discounts
- Critical Illness & Life Assurance cover
We encourage you to bring your true self to work. We’ll provide great training and development opportunities, allowing you to flourish in a fulfilling career, reaching your dreams and aspirations. Our family can never be too big, there’s a place here for you. We have one ask - that you bring your personality, ideas, and spark. We’re an innovative, thriving business and we want you to be part of our exciting journey.
If you are interested,Click Apply . We look forward to hearing from you.
