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Executive Chef - London

Employer
Shangri-la
Location
London
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
27 Jul 2018

Job Details

Executive Chef - London

  • Are you interested in working in one of the most iconic buildings in the World?
  • Are you often described as being creative, energetic, influential and visionary chef?
  • Are you a strong communicator who thrives in a dynamic and fast paced environment?
  • Do you have the leadership ability and emotional intelligence to develop the next generation of chefs?

 If so, you could very well be our next Executive Chef!

Taking inspiration from the spires of London churches and the masts of tall ships depicted by the 18th century Venetian painter Canaletto, Renzo Piano designed The Shard as a spire-like sculpture emerging from River Thames. Outstanding architecture and pure luxury is why up to six thousand people per day visit The Shard’s restaurants, bars and why tens of thousands visit the Shangri-La Hotel, located on level 34-52 of this magnificent building.  Join us on our exciting journey to be the iconic property to visit whilst in London and a world class employer!

Job summary

At Shangri-La Hotel, At The Shard, London, you will play an active role in developing our culinary offering. You will build long term, profitable customer relationships and culinary concepts to enable revenue growth and retention. You will wear many hats as you lead the charge in the continued development a talented and ambitious team of culinary professionals. Creativity is key as you will be responsible for continuously developing new concepts to stay ahead of the competition. You will partner with our talent brigade of chefs and senior leadership teams to continuously improve our Food and Beverage offering in a bold, brave and unique way. We dare to be different and we are not afraid to show it. Success will be achieved by retaining our valued culinary team, delivering a consistent quality offering for our guests, managing in a financially responsible way by securing profit margins whilst maintaining the five-star image of our Company at all times.

Leading a team of 50+ chefs, you will oversee the hotel’s following dining venues:

  1. An exciting new concept which is currently being converted from LANG to Bar 31 on the ground floor.
  2. Ting Restaurant and Lounge on level 35, featuring locally inspired modern British dishes with an Asian twist.
  3. GONG Bar on level 52, the highest hotel bar in Western Europe.
  4. The hotel's 24-hour in-room dining service.
  5. Our colleague restaurant, Burrow Market.
  6. Our hotel’s banqueting experience in three distinctive river-facing function rooms on level 34 of the hotel.

Our proposition to you

Our aim is to keep and reward the very best, each year, where possible, we fill most of the company’s leadership positions via internal promotions and transfers and with over 50 projects in development around the world, the opportunities are endless.

You will receive a competitive salary, fantastic rewards for delivering financial results, 32 days of annual leave, mobile company phone, free meals whilst on duty and the dry cleaning of your chef whites, worldwide complimentary accommodation within the Shangri-La group (including Traders, Kerry and Hotel Jen brands), long service awards, fun and fantastic social gatherings, hotel celebrations, leadership retreats, our promise to continuous learning and development opportunities both within the London property and within the wider-company.

In addition to a competitive compensation package, we believe that with the right attitude, anything is possible at Shangri-La and we will invest heavily in your development and with a very strong F&B presence in all our hotels, a long term career with Shangri-La is definitely on the cards.

We recognize our responsibility to our community and to the environment, and have developed policies and practises which make a real difference. We have an active and passionate sustainable and green committee, and a partnership with our local community charity, Guys and St. Thomas’s Hospital - so we can make a real difference where we work, we even offer one paid volunteer day per year.

 This vacancy will be live for one month so don’t wait, apply today!

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