This position offers a Monday through Friday schedule.
This is a Temporary Full-Time position.
Sodexo Corporate Services has a great opportunity for an Executive Chef with our high profile client in Cambridge, MA. The successful candidate will have direct impact on all culinary operations including café and catering with oversight of hourly cooks for recipe execution, safety and sanitation.
The best qualified Executive Chef will have strong, hands-on, kitchen experience and will be accessible to staff while being on the floor during services times, showing strong leadership ability.
The Executive Chef helps create elegant and sophisticated culinary experiences, exceeding culinary and service expectations while enhancing client program objectives. This position supervises all aspects of back of the house catering operations; including ordering, inventory, staff training and development. This position will also be responsible for all catering events on site.
The successful candidate will:
be responsible for purchasing, menu compliance, inventory, food cost analysis and food production forecastingensure Sodexo Culinary standards including recipe compliance and food quality are implementedhave the ability and willingness to develop and motivate team members to embrace culinary innovationsensure food safety, sanitation and workplace safety standard compliance; and/orhave working knowledge of automated food inventory, ordering, production and management systems
Is this opportunity right for you? We are looking for candidates who have:
a strong culinary background, with the demonstrated ability to stay current with new culinary trendsexcellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to maintain the highest of standards and implements company policiesstrong management skills and previous experience working in a high-volume facilityhigh end catering and dining experience and a passion for culinary arts a strong production culinary background, ideally in an up-scale restaurant/retail/catering environmentexperience leading and engaging a culinary team, with exceptional human resource and supervisory/management skillsetmenu planning experience and a strong understanding of current culinary trendsproven to effectively communicate to multiple audiences and develop strong relationships with customersthe ability to multitask and proven effectiveness in a high-standards driven environmenta strong understanding of forecasting, food cost management, purchasing, inventory and labor management conceptsthe ability to successfully lead, develop and train a team
Why Sodexo?
Vacation, Personal and Sick TimeMedical Benefits beginning date of hire401K and Roth IRA with company match eligible
Sodexo offers a full array of benefits including paid time off, holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K and access to ongoing training and development programs, tuition reimbursement, plus health and wellness programs.
What We OfferSodexo offers fair and equitable compensation, partially determined by a candidate's education level or years of relevant experience. While the budgeted range for the position is posted, Sodexo salary offers are based on a candidate's specific criteria, like experience, skills, education and training.
Qualifications & RequirementsBasic Education Requirement - Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
Basic Management Experience - 2 years
Basic Functional Experience – 1 year work experience in food or culinary services including restaurants, fast food, vending, catering services, institutional services, mall food courts, etc.
Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.