At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead culinary excellence across Europe, mentoring chefs and setting high food standards.
- Company: Join Thomas Franks, a fresh food catering business focused on quality and individuality.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, free meals, discounts, and excellent career progression.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with a strong focus on personal development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the culinary world while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in culinary management and a passion for food innovation.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive
Hours: 40 per week
Our head offices are based in the beautiful village of Hook Norton near Banbury. Here you will find our teams of finance, HR, purchasing, marketing & creative that support all of our locations across the Thomas Franks family. There is ample parking space available when visiting.
We are looking for a Regional Head of Culinary for Europe with a passion for food and creating and maintaining the highest quality food standards. The role will be responsible for:
- Contributing towards business planning and the company vision.
- Developing the highest standards of food quality within a budgetary framework and in line with client needs.
- Promoting craft innovation in line with current and future food trends.
- Supporting and developing our chef teams and leading and mentoring our apprentices.
- Building effective relationships with our clients and ensuring financial accountability, health and safety and food safety compliance.
- Leadership and development of the chef team and culinary strategy across the region.
- Working to support Regional Directors to plan and manage the mobilisation of new contracts from a culinary, food budgeting, innovation and chef training perspective.
- Being accountable for managing budgetary expectations, ensuring the co-ordination and cross charging of the mobile chef team in line with Regional Directors and Operations Managers requirements in a timely manner.
Key focus areas for this role:
- Coaching & Mentoring: The RhoC will be responsible for the ongoing development of all chefs within the region in conjunction with the Culinary Director and Regional Director. Setting Food standards on a Regional basis in line with company & client expectations.
- Training & Development: Taking full responsibility for driving food based training and development programmes within the region.
- Setting Food Standards: Taking a mentoring role with regard to setting standards and kitchen practice within your Region. Leading the craft vision within the Region and regularly visiting each location to ensure food standards are of the highest quality.
- Recruitment & Induction: Planning and taking responsibility for setting and creating new chefs induction programmes and ensuring they are educated in all aspects of the business including financial, people, craft, health and safety, client standards, procedures and expectations.
- Policy & Procedures: Monitoring and ensuring that both yourself and those at location follow all stated company procedures to ensure standards are maintained.
- Communication: Engaging in regional planning and communications activities, with both the Regional Operations Directors and senior team, to ensure effective chef-led activity across the region.
- Financial: Managing the mobile team budgets ensuring that business needs are met in line with budgetary expectations.
- People: Working closely with the Head of Recruitment and Regional HR Manager to oversee the recruitment, induction, performance and management of all of the mobile regional chef team.
Benefits include:
- Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
- Free meals on duty.
- Volunteers leave - up to one day per year.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Recommend a friend bonus.
- Unrivalled individual training and development.
- Well established apprenticeship programme.
- Team & company social events.
- Employee assistance programme.
- Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.
About us:
Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.
All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role. An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process.
Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks: We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion.
