Head Chef - Italian Restaurant, New Opening

Bigger Bolder Hospitality is seeking a visionary Head Chef who brings both talent and heart to the role. Someone who is energized by creating elevated dining experiences and understands how to turn moments into memories for our guests. Juno is a contemporary Italian restaurant and bar launching at Olympia, a space that blends the ease of neighbourhood dining with the energy of a West London destination. Rooted in simple, produce-led cooking, Juno’s hospitality will be warm, generous and effortlessly stylish.

As Head Chef, you will be the heart of the kitchen, leading a talented team and shaping an innovative menu that captures the energy and precision of Italian cuisine in a high-volume, yet elevated, environment. You will have the opportunity to showcase your expertise in pizza, pasta, and other traditional Italian dishes while incorporating contemporary trends and seasonal ingredients.

We Expect You To:

• Collaborate with the Food Team and General Manager to curate and develop both core and seasonal menus with innovative Italian concepts.
• Dramatize the guest experience utilizing our live pizza counter.
• Own and deliver GP to budget, determining food inventory needs including managing stock, waste, and ordering.
• Ensure the kitchen meets all regulations including sanitary and food safety guidelines, maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness and safety.
• Manage and own kitchen labour spend, rota planning to budget.
• Ensure recruitment is in line with company guidelines, recruiting brilliant skills and the right people to elevate your team's delivery.
• Conduct bi-annual team performance reviews, consistently train your team, encourage development and company engagement with initiatives such as Kitchen Collabs and Apprenticeship Schemes.
• Engage with the wider Incipio culture, living and breathing our values.

Who You'll Be:

• A proactive and warm leader, high energy, who loves to bring people together.
• Extensive experience as a Head Chef in a high-volume Italian restaurant.
• Passionate about Neapolitan pizza.
• Have a keen eye for standards and take pride in every dish served.
• Creative, innovative, and forward-thinking.
• Multi-tasker, expert delegator, and loves being in the thick of it.
• Can keep calm when tickets ramp up and service is in full flow.
• Obsessed with communication, constantly speaking to your team, and able to convey the bigger picture as well as venue-specific details.
• A chef our colleagues can aspire to be.
• Fun, doesn’t take themselves too seriously, and understands hospitality is all about personality & heart.

Benefits & Best Bits:

• Vitality Package: Dental, optical and health insurance.
• Gym membership discounts and other rewards.
• Free therapy through Self Space, accessible to all Incipio staff.
• Career development opportunities as the business grows.
• Bonus capacity paid annually.
• Company awards and events.
• Sickness & compassionate pay.
• Incentive trips (wine trips to Portugal and ski trips to France).
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Incipio FC & seasonal socials.
• 50% discount for food and drink in all venues.
• More holiday after 2 years of continuous service.

At Incipio, we believe diverse teams make the best teams. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, regardless of race, gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes you uniquely you.

Experience: Required Employment: Full-time Salary: £45,000 – £50,000 yearly