Head Chef in Rugby

40 hours per week 5:00pm to 1:30am £16.89 per hour + Sodexo employee benefits package. Meals included on shift and free parking onsite. Opportunities for career development.

Sodexo is looking for a hands-on culinary leader to oversee and drive food operations at our site in Hinckley, with occasional support at Smethwick and Broadwell. You’ll take charge of delivering fresh, great-tasting food while ensuring safety, consistency, and exceptional service across all meals.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and motivate on-site catering teams to deliver excellent service and drive high staff engagement.
• Oversee the daily delivery of fresh, high-quality food that drives sales and achieves gross margin targets.
• Maintain full compliance with food safety and health & safety regulations.
• Monitor financial performance, stock and implement actions for continuous improvement.
• Ensure high standards of cleanliness, presentation, and customer satisfaction across all service periods.
• Contribute to innovation, marketing campaigns, and business development within the contract.
• Support catering operations at Smethwick and Broadwell sites as required.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience in a similar catering or food service management role.
• Strong leadership and communication skills with a track record of developing teams.
• Commercially focused with an understanding of cost control, and business planning.
• Excellent knowledge of food safety, health & safety, and relevant legislation (COSHH, HACCP, etc.).
• Ability to work flexibly across shift patterns to engage staff on all services.
• Full UK driving licence and own vehicle (travel expenses paid).

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. Belong in a company and team that values you for you. Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions. Thrive in your own way. We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support.
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life’s larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing.
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service.
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan.
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Sodexo UK and Ireland’s enhanced benefits and leave policies.

A little more about Sodexo: At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services. We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins. We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Ready to be part of something greater? Feed our customers and we’ll fuel your career.