Executive Event Chef - No Weekends

Salary: Competitive

Benefits

At Lexington we strive to ensure that our colleagues feel appreciated & rewarded, which is why we offer generous rewards & benefits in exchange for your dedicated efforts.

FREE On-Site Lunches: Enjoy complimentary lunches, saving you time & money while ensuring you stay nourished & energised throughout the day.

Support Your Way of Life:

• Flexible Working: We offer full-time & part-time roles, with varying shift patterns across the business. Allowing colleagues the flexibility to balance their personal & professional commitments
• Relax & recharge with 31 days holiday
• Family Leave: Prioritise family commitments with flexible leave options
• Paid Charity Leave: Make a positive impact with two additional paid days for charity work

Demonstrates a comprehensive and adept approach to commercial, operational, and leadership responsibilities within the CPU and Client Support Team. (CST)

Job Description

Duties CPU:
• Responsible for the quality and consistency of the food offering across our delivered-in contracts.
• Responsible for Menu Development and Specification with Nutritional balance for our delivered-in contracts
• Event planning including menus, costings, logistics and team management.
• Responsible to set standard of work for areas like training, supply, ingredients, food quality and working environment for the chef brigade within the CPU.
• Accountable for the financial results associated to the CPU ensuring areas like margin, waste, stock control and KPIs are achieved.
• Leading forecast, budget on a regular basis to support the financial goals.
• Responsible for all the logistics. E.g. Drivers and Fleet.
• Tendering for new business. E.g. attending Site Visit, planning presentation and tasting.
• Work closely with the Resourcing Manager to develop competitive and appealing new ideas that reflect our standards and high quality. Stay up to date with new food trends.
• Ensuring compliance to CPU standard operating procedures.
• Plan the production schedule and organise workflow to ensure cost effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Recruitment team on recruitment and selection of staff, participating in interviews, trial shifts and providing feedback on candidates as required.
• Ensure that all team members, procedures, and paperwork are compliant with the relevant Health and Safety regulations and in line with Company guidelines.

Duties within the Client Support Team:
• Support Staffing Manager in managing the Full time and Casual Chefs.
• Work with and support the food team and sales and marketing with offer development, tenders and client presentations across Lexington business.
• Responsible for maintaining training plans of the whole team. This includes training of all food concepts (new and existing). With support from Staffing Manager and HR & Payroll Administrator ensuring all training sessions are designed, planned and delivered in line with company requirements and business levels.
• Responsible for carrying out regular one to ones with team members and Appraisals using Talent Toolbox (TT2).
• Support CST Recruitment Consultant with all recruitment activities. Such as short listing, interviews, trial shifts, inductions, etc.
• Ensure high standards of personal hygiene and that the correct attire is always worn neatly and clean.
• Carry out any other reasonable requests of the Support Team management.

Working Pattern: 40 hours (Mon-Fri)

Skills and Experience

The experience and knowledge we are looking for from the CPU Executive project Chef:
- Initiative, Adaptability, Flexibility, Reliability, Implementation, Work Standards, Tenacity and Time Management.
- Previous Executive Chef experience within Events or Contract catering is desirable