Executive Head Chef
Are you a dynamic, innovative, passionate, and resilient, modern day commercially focused Executive Head Chef? A self-starter and a completer who inspires your team to deliver an exceptional Food offering and dining experience in a Luxurious Resort?
If so, here at the Slieve Donard Resort & Spa we are now offering an amazing opportunity for an exceptional hospitality professional to apply for the position of Executive Head Chef who will be responsible working in collaboration with the Head Chef for the day to day food offering and development of the resorts Kitchen Brigade. Creative from menu inception to delivery, standards and quality driven, this is an exciting opportunity to reposition and develop the food offering across all Food Outlets in the Resort.
About the role
What you will need
Required criteria
- Be a dynamic, innovative, passionate, and resilient, modern day commercially focused leader.
- A standards driven self-starter and completer, who inspires your team to deliver an exceptional guest experience synonymous with the Hastings’ brand.
- Have strong commercial acumen; experienced in managing budgets, revenue forecasts, cost control and profit delivery.
- Have 3 year’s experience of providing restaurant style food, as well as weddings, functions, conference, and banqueting duties.
- Be educated to 3rd level standard* with 3 years or more similar previous experience within a 4 star hotel, and be able to demonstrate strong people management and leadership capabilities across all hotel and resort operations.
Desired criteria
- *Candidates who are not educated to 3rd level standard must have 5 years or more similar previous experience within a 4 star hotel, and be able to demonstrate strong people management and leadership capabilities across all hotel and resort operations.
Professional skills you’ll need for this job opportunity
Managing Budgets
Managing Teams
Quality Management
Succession Planning
Time Management
Hastings Hotels
Hastings Hotels owns and operates six hotels in Northern Ireland, with over 1,000 bedrooms, one stand-alone grill bar/restaurant and a luxury spa. From city centre buzz to seaside resort, each outlet has a distinctive personality and market positioning. Over 50 years this family owned business has successfully earned its identity and in a crowded market place because we place quality at the heart of what we do. Quality in the design of our properties and their upkeep. Quality in the local sourcing of the food and drink we offer our guests. And quality in our people, people with personality, attention to detail, and a desire to develop their careers with us.
Our guests remember small details. The open fires in the front hall. The supremely comfy beds. The fabulous breakfast... and the interactions they had with our staff. It is more important that you have the correct behaviours and attitude than every last qualification... we can help you attain that. We place great attention on recruitment, induction, and integrating you into your department, your hotel, and the Group. We want you to think about how you want to develop your career with us, and we promise to do what we can to help you on that journey. As a result, we are proud to have some of the best staff retention levels in the hospitality industry.
Our benefits
We offer a range of benefits including free staff meals, cash and credit card tips, employee discounts, 29 days holiday plus your birthday and opportunities for career progression and development.
Vacation, Paid time off
Retirement plan and/or pension
Employee development programs
Employee discounts
Cycle to work
Competitive salary
Event tickets
Preferential room rates
Family and friends rates
Discount on meals purchased
Discount on spa treatments or products
Long service recognition
Free meals during shifts
Free parking or Discounted parking
Employee Assistance Scheme
Wellbeing Scheme
Social Opportunities
Employee of the Month
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