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Operational optimisation & Development Chef, Nottingham
Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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Job Reference:
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Posted:
03.03.2025
Expiry Date:
17.04.2025
Job Description:
General information
Operational optimisation & Development Chef Ref: 2024-66233
Job Information
Division: Elior Support Services
Advert Closing Date: 07/09/2024
Contractual Hours: Full-time
Salary: £43,000
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday – 37.5 hours a week
We are seeking an Operational optimisation & Development Chef to join our team
This role sits within our Hospitals division, catering for visitors and NHS teams. Taking care of some of the most renowned hospitals in the country, we know that healthy, nutritional food is critical to patient recovery. Distinguished by our warmth of service, our focus is always customer first, which is why nutrition is at the heart of everything we do.
This is a national role with a company car provided
What you’ll be doing…
As the Operational optimisation & Development Chef , you will drive kitchen efficiency and effectiveness in our retail hospitals through process, menu, and resource optimisation.
Key Accountabilities:
- Creating and implementing standard operating model for our hospital kitchens including to support a move to in house production of some key categories
- Delivering sales growth and improved profitability through kitchen optimisation and menu engineering
- Supporting the consistent implementation of concept launches and menu changes and taking accountability for the successful implementation of approved commercial activities
- Coordinating and optimising seasonal pop ups and concepts
- To work with the central team to support in the production of menus and concepts to ensure our offer is market leading
- To support our teams with kitchen and skills training
- To understand the market in terms of equipment innovations, commercialise these opportunities and launch and scale them across the estate
- Spend time in operational units to observe and support implementation, developing strong relationships with senior operations teams
What can you bring?
- Experience managing a food team across multi-site brands
- Ability to be a visionary – develop innovative ideas to drive top and bottom line, testing, learning, refining, and operationalising them
- Exceptional attention to detail
- A creative problem-solving mindset
- Excellent investigative and diagnostic skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- In-depth understanding of the culinary landscape
- Mentor or manager of wider chef team
- Experience managing and influencing senior stakeholders and client relationships
- Good understanding of the market including competition
- Ability to focus effort on the most profitable outcomes
- Ability to work at pace
- Understanding of operational reality in units, including waste management, equipment, space, and macro store layout
Our way of saying thank you…
At Elior, we strive to ensure that our colleagues feel appreciated & rewarded, which is why we offer generous rewards & benefits in exchange for your dedicated efforts.
We offer a salary of £43,000 plus a company car and 15% KPI performance-related bonus
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.
- Hybrid Working Model: Collaborate & innovate in the office three days a week while enjoying focused work-from-home days.
- Holiday Allowance: Relax & recharge with 33 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
- Additional Holiday Purchase Option: Customise your time off by purchasing extra holidays.
- Family Leave: Prioritise family commitments with flexible leave options.
- Paid Charity Leave: Make a positive impact with two additional paid days for charity work.
Big Enough for Growth, Small Enough to Connect:
Opportunities for career progression while developing a close-knit community.
Supporting You Through Life’s Ups & Downs:
Access mental health support & comprehensive wellbeing benefits.
Keeping Finances & Wellbeing in Mind:
Life assurance, workplace pension schemes, discounts, cashback, entertainment, leisure discounts, & a cycle to work scheme.
Why it’s great to work for us…
Elior is a multi-award-winning people business and one of the UK’s leading contract caterers , with over 10,000 colleagues operating across a diverse range of sectors.
Along with our purpose of enriching lives everywhere, every day, we’re committed to an inclusive culture and want our people to feel appreciated, supported, and fulfilled.
That’s why 85% of colleagues tell us how proud they are to work for us!
Interested? Click the ‘Apply for this role’ button at the top of this advert.
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