Executive Chef

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead culinary strategy and daily operations across Raffles & Fairmont Doha.
• Oversee outlets, banquets, in-room dining, and special events.
• Develop innovative culinary concepts, menus, and guest experiences.
• Drive planning, kitchen organisation, productivity, cost control, and resource allocation.
• Maintain standards for food quality, presentation, consistency, hygiene, and safety.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing culinary brigade.
• Manage food cost, labour productivity, purchasing, inventory, and waste reduction.
• Partner with Food & Beverage, Sales & Marketing, Finance, and other departments.
• Monitor guest feedback, trends, and competitive activity.
• Champion sustainability in sourcing, production, waste management, and kitchen operations.
• Ensure compliance with brand standards, regulations, food safety requirements, and procedures.
• Contribute to strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and culinary growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive senior-level culinary leadership experience in luxury hotels, resorts, or high-end hospitality.
• Experience leading complex operations across multiple outlets, banqueting, events, and high-volume service.
• Ability to execute strategic culinary concepts with operational and commercial excellence.
• Financial management experience covering budgeting, forecasting, food cost, labour productivity, purchasing, and inventory.
• Knowledge of luxury culinary standards, food safety, hygiene, quality assurance, and compliance.
• Experience leading and mentoring diverse, high-performing culinary teams.
• Creative and commercially minded approach to menus, innovation, guest experience, and revenue.
• Understanding of culinary trends, sustainability, and luxury guest expectations.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, multicultural, fast-paced hospitality environment.
• Relevant professional culinary qualification or equivalent education, training, and experience.
• Commitment to brand standards, inclusion, empowerment, and respectful interactions.

Employee Benefits

• Colleague perks include complimentary upgrades, extended stays, discounted stays across Fairmont and Raffles properties, and dining and wellness discounts.

Application Process

• Applicants must create an AssessFirst profile and complete a questionnaire after applying for candidacy consideration.

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