Head Chef Manager
Location: Marlow
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Salary: £35,000–£42,000 per annum, depending on experience
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
Hours: Monday–Friday, 7:00am – 4:30pm
Vanta Staffing are recruiting for an experienced Head Chef Manager to take responsibility for the day-to-day running of a busy workplace deli in Marlow.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced chef, café manager or catering professional looking for a hands-on management role with consistent Monday-to-Friday daytime hours and no regular weekends or late nights.
The Role
You will lead a small catering team and oversee the daily breakfast, lunch and grab-and-go operation, ensuring high standards of food quality, service, food safety and commercial control.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing the daily operation of the deli and leading the catering team.
- Preparing and overseeing breakfast, lunch, hot-counter and grab-and-go food.
- Planning practical, appealing and commercially controlled weekly menus.
- Managing stock, ordering, portion control and food waste.
- Maintaining excellent food presentation and customer-service standards.
- Ensuring full compliance with food-safety, hygiene and allergen procedures.
- Managing recipe cards, allergen matrices, PPDS labelling and daily compliance records.
- Monitoring deliveries, stock rotation, temperatures and food storage.
- Training and supporting team members to maintain consistent standards.
- Reviewing sales, customer feedback and waste to improve the food offer.
- Providing hands-on support during busy service periods.
About You
We are looking for someone with previous experience as a Chef Manager, Head Chef, Cook, Café Manager, Deli Manager or Workplace Catering Lead.
You will ideally have:
- Strong practical cooking and food-production experience.
- Experience leading or supervising a small team.
- Good knowledge of food safety, hygiene and allergen controls.
- Experience with stock management, ordering and waste control.
- The ability to plan menus and manage food costs.
- Excellent organisation and communication skills.
- A calm and hands-on approach to busy service periods.
- Confidence completing paperwork, digital records and compliance checks.
- Level 3 Food Safety qualification, or willingness to obtain it.
Experience with workplace catering, PPDS/Natasha's Law, recipe cards and allergen matrices would be advantageous.
What's on Offer?
- £35,000–£42,000 salary, depending on experience.
- Monday–Friday, 7:00am–4:30pm.
- Permanent, full-time position.
- No regular weekend working or split shifts.
- Hands-on leadership role with genuine responsibility. xiskglj
- Opportunity to influence menus and improve the catering operation.
If you're an experienced chef or catering professional looking for a stable weekday management role, we'd love to hear from you.
Vanta Staffing are working as a recruitment agency for this role
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