Executive Chef

3 days ago

Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom Gate Gourmet Full time
Job Summary:

The Customer Dedicated Executive Chef role is a key position within Gategroup, responsible for developing new menus and culinary concepts for a strategic airline partner in the UK&I and U.S.A. This role requires a deep understanding of global cuisines, brand values, and corporate identity.

The successful candidate will be accountable for food services across all cabin classes, aligning with Procurement to ensure menu items meet customer expectations, budget, nutritional, and allergen requirements, sustainability standards, and operational needs.

Key responsibilities include managing client-related kitchen operations in the UK&I and U.S.A., influencing training, and ensuring a high-quality culinary standard. The role also involves a significant amount of travel within the UK and to the USA.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and implement new menus and culinary concepts that align with the airline's brand values and corporate identity
  • Manage food services across all cabin classes, ensuring menu items meet customer expectations and requirements
  • Collaborate with Procurement to source approved suppliers and ensure menu items meet nutritional, allergen, and sustainability standards
  • Lead client-related kitchen operations in the UK&I and U.S.A., influencing training and ensuring a high-quality culinary standard
  • Travel to designated units to inspect, audit, train, and make recommendations for improvements
  • Participate in the account management team, contributing to winning, retaining, and building the business
  • Conduct quality assurance checks and make immediate changes as necessary
  • Ensure recipes are compliant with legislative requirements, including Food Safety, Health and Safety, Security, and Environmental controls
Requirements:
  • Experience in a menu design/planning role is essential
  • Experience in an in-flight catering or high-volume food service environment is preferable
  • Extensive experience in managing a large-scale food manufacturing department and associated teams
  • Previous experience of managing budgets, financial, and performance-related KPIs/targets
  • Understanding of large-scale production and assembly is essential
  • Lean Management Skills
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills in English
  • Computer literate and proficient in MS Office (Word/Excel/Powerpoint)
  • Financial budgetary skills and demonstrable experience
About Gategroup:

Gategroup is the leading independent global provider of products, services, and solutions related to a passenger's on-board experience. We specialize in catering and hospitality, provisioning and logistics, and on-board products and services to companies that serve people on the move.

We operate in an integrated way to provide a 'one-stop-shop' for our customers, addressing specific market needs.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, undertake a CRC (Criminal Record Check), and provide 5 years of checkable referencing history.

For anytime spent outside the UK exceeding 6 months, you must be able to provide a CRC (Criminal Record Check) for that country.

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