Senior Head Chef -Millie\'s Lounge

The Ned boasts 10 restaurants each serving a unique style of cuisine from around the world. As Senior Head Chef, you will lead one of our most high-performing kitchens, which services multiple restaurants and in-room dining. Your role will embrace everything from day-to-day operations, people and team management, menu creation, budgeting and P&L, and everything in between.

Where will you be working? The Ned and Neds Club are a global collection of hotels, clubs, spas, and restaurants for like-minded individuals to meet, work and have a good time. The Ned launched in 2017 in the heart of the City, in the former Midland Bank headquarters. The Ned City of London houses Neds Club - a private members space, gym and rooftop - alongside a public spa, a full floor of events spaces, ten restaurants and bars and 250 hotel bedrooms.

At The Ned, we have restaurants in almost every cuisine, from pan-Asian to American diner, and Italian to fine dining.

Reporting to our Executive Head Chefs you will:

• Lead the team in the production of our food, ensuring that all dishes are cooked and presented to our exceptional Ned standards.
• Collaborate with General Managers to ensure seamless operation of our restaurants and in-room dining services.
• Achieve all commercial deliverables for your kitchens - including menu costing and creation, budget and P&L management, weekly and monthly reporting, recruitment, and labour spend.
• Lead all people leadership tasks - including team recruitment, development and performance chats, onboarding new starters.
• Guide and develop your kitchen leadership team, sharing accountability and growing the future talent of The Ned.
• Be a guardian of food quality and presentation, monitoring all food leaving your kitchen and providing coaching and feedback to the team where needed.
• Create and monitor a safe and clean kitchen environment, protecting our guests and team from any possible harm.
• Protect our excellent food safety ratings and audit standards by always keeping a close eye on procedures and practices, keeping impeccable records, and implementing action plans where necessary.

What can The Ned give you?

• Salary of up to £68,000 per year, including service charge.
• Every house membership of Soho House.
• Enhanced parental leave, company sick pay and pension.
• Complimentary meals in our friendly team restaurant, Neddys including monthly payday breakfast.
• Exciting learning and development programmes to help progress your career.
• Exclusive rates at The Ned for staying and eating for you, your family, and friends.
• Wellbeing and health benefits, including Wagestream and Benefit Bank - our exclusive platform with access to hundreds of gyms, shopping, and cinema discounts.
• Your birthday off after a year of service and more holiday after five years.
• Paid volunteer day.
• Regular social events, including an annual pool party.
• Employee assistance programme 24/7 advice and support.
• Reward and recognition initiatives.

What you can bring to the role:

• Previous kitchen leadership experience with a proven track record of delivering outstanding food and people management.
• Experience supporting multisite restaurants preferable, although not essential.
• Our customers and guests expect the best, so high standards are essential.
• An organised and detailed manner is necessary, as impeccable record keeping is needed to maintain records for our safety and audit standards.
• A commercial mindset is needed in all our leaders, evidence of achieving and exceeding KPIs will go a long way.
• Creative flare is always welcome - our menus change seasonally, and our Head Chefs contribute heavily to this.
• Our kitchens can be high pressure so a calm demeanour and a genuine passion for providing guests with exceptional food is essential.

At The Ned, we don't just celebrate our diversity, we challenge ourselves to do even better. The Ned is committed to being the best place to work, and ensuring that we have a leading diversity, equity and inclusion programme is central to making that vision a reality.

Please let us know of any specific needs you may have during your interview. All candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK to be considered for this role. Apply today and join us as a Senior Head Chef.