Sous Chef (Monday to Friday)

Company Description

Role: Sous Chef - Retail
Location: Farringdon, London
Salary: Up to £43,000

We are looking for a talented and driven Sous Chef to join our amazing retail Culinary team, at a leading global investment bank in Central London. We are looking for an individual who has a real passion for the Hospitality industry, is keen to be collaborative and takes pride in their work every day. Every interaction is an opportunity to create a lasting impression, and we’re looking for a talented individual who strives to exceed expectations at every turn. 

Our Retail Kitchen looks after our Breakfast and Lunch offering at a busy and fast-paced investment bank. We see an average of 3000 transactions a day in our restaurant across our Breakfast and Lunch service, from freshly prepared omelettes, to a daily special that takes inspiration from our Chef's cuisines and heritages. We have full autonomy across our 7 counters in the restaurant, so is a real opportunity to bring your own flare and touch to our dishes. 

We are a leading business in the catering industry, known for our innovative and obsessed approach, exceptional service, and authentic and delicious culinary offerings. We pride ourselves on delivering memorable workplace dining experiences catering to a diverse clientele. Our team is passionate about food and dedicated to providing top-notch service.
Job Description

As Sous Chef, you will play a key role in day-to-day kitchen operations, menu delivery, and team supervision. You’ll help ensure the smooth running of service across our Restaurant, while maintaining high standards of food quality, hygiene, and compliance. 

To ensure food production, standards, costs and menu planning are carried out in a timely fashion, as agreed with the Head Chef
To assist the Head Chef with compiling food orders and developing new food concept and menu ideas for the restaurant, with full autonomy on menu writing and development 
To assist with the smooth and efficient running of our Retail Kitchen, overseeing 7 sections from a full salad bar, to our special Chef counter. 
To be involved with motivating and mentoring a brigade of around 15 chefs, from Sous Chef to Kitchen Porter.
To work collaboratively with our Group Culinary Lead, to drive food innovation and concept development, marketing and implementation, across our Retail food offering, but alongside our Hospitality kitchen too.
To plan, prepare, cook and present food to the standards required by the company and the client, by taking inspiration 
To assist with responsibility of Food, Health and Safety in the kitchen, ensuring best practices, all due diligence is completed as necessary and any other relevant documentation 

Qualifications

Experience in a previous role, ideally either a Senior Sous chef, or Head Chef in a contract catering environment
Comfortable with delivering 3000+ covers a day across Breakfast and Lunch 
Have a good understanding of Food, Health & Safety, including allergens and nutritional information 
Organised, calm under pressure and eager to grow professionally
Good communication verbally and written
Passion for food, and innovative with new ideas
Good team management 

Additional Information

As a member of the team, you will have access to a supportive and inclusive work environment that encourages growth and celebrates diversity. Investing in your development and provide ongoing training to ensure that you have the skills and knowledge to thrive in your role whilst being dedicated to ensuring your work-life balance thus enabling you to pursue your passion for hospitality while also taking care of yourself.

For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.

We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.

Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

Join us, and be part of the food revolution!

Benefits:

Monday to Friday, with 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
Plus your birthday off
3 volunteering days
3 days grandparent leave.
24 week’s enhanced maternity leave.
Secondary career leave.
Wedding/commitment day leave.
Free meals on shift.
Bespoke training and development opportunities
Apprenticeships opportunities for all experience levels
Pension and life insurance.
Discounts available from Perkbox app, from high street shops to holidays & cinema.
Wellbeing hub.
Access to employee assistance programme.
Cycle to work scheme

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our workforce.

The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each team member to feel respected and able to give their best.

And to support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ED&I (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.