Executive Chef - Arabic Speaker
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About the Role
Chedi Hospitality seeks an experienced Executive Chef to lead culinary operations in Doha. The role requires overseeing food production, ensuring brand standards, managing teams, and driving creativity.
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Responsibilities
- Attend and contribute to all meetings as required
- Ensure culinary activities align with corporate strategy and hotel actions
- Oversee preparation and updating of departmental operations manuals
- Conduct regular communications meetings and ensure effective departmental briefings
- Ensure all company minimum brand standards are implemented
- Monitor operations during peak business periods and make adjustments
- Provide feedback on Consumer Audit results and implement changes
- Encourage employees to be creative and innovative
- Work closely with other Executive Committee members
- Ensure culinary employees work supportively with other departments
- Taste and monitor food products served throughout the operation
- Work with Materials Manager for procurement and commissary kitchen management
Requirements
- Apprenticeship or professional diploma in Food Production
- Minimum 2 years work experience as Executive Chef or Executive Sous Chef in larger operation
- Good practical, operational and adequate administrative skills with a flair for creativity
- Arabic speaker
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Job Qualifications
- Ideally with an apprenticeship or professional diploma in Food Production.
- Minimum 2 years work experience as Executive Chef, or Executive Sous chef in larger operation.
- Good practical, operational and adequate administrative skills with a flair for creativity are a must.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Attends and contributes to all Meetings as required.
- Ensures that culinary activities are aligned with the respective Corporate Strategy.
- Oversees the preparation and updating of individual Departmental Operations Manuals.
- Conducts regular communications meetings and ensures effective departmental briefings.
- Ensures that all company minimum brand standards have been implemented.
- Monitors all operations, especially during peak business periods.
- Provides feedback on Consumer Audit results and ensures relevant changes are implemented.
- Encourages employees to be creative and innovative.
- Works closely with other Executive Committee members.
- Ensures that culinary employees work in a supportive and flexible manner with other departments.
- Tastes and monitors the food products served throughout the operation.
- Works with the Materials Manager in procurement and management of Commissary Kitchen.
Customer Service
- Ensures that all guest contact culinary employees deliver the brand promise and provide exceptional guest service.
- Ensures employees provide excellent service to internal customers.
- Spends time in culinary areas observing employee guest interaction and coaches employees as necessary.
- Handles all guest and internal customer complaints and inquiries courteously and efficiently.
- Maintains positive guest and colleague interactions with good working relationships.
Financial
- Maximises employee productivity through multi skilling, multi tasking and flexible scheduling.
- Ensures each profit center is operated to maximize profit while delivering on brand promise.
- Ensures each cost center operates with lowest possible cost structure.
- Assists in preparation of Annual Business Plan for Food and Beverage.
- Strategically analyses business performance to facilitate accurate forecasting.
- Proactively manages costs based on key performance indicators.
- Ensures adherence to financial record keeping, money handling and licensing regulations.
- Assists in inventory management and ongoing maintenance of hotel operating equipment.
- Assists with input of product specifications, recipes and other data.
Personnel
- Oversees and assists in recruitment and selection of all Food and Beverage employees.
- Oversees punctuality and appearance of all Food and Beverage employees.
- Maximises effectiveness of Heads of Department through training, coaching, and mentoring.
- Conducts annual Performance Development Discussions with Heads of Department.
- Ensures each Head of Department plans and implements effective training programmes.
- Encourages employees to be creative and innovative.
- Ensures all employees understand and adhere to employee rules and regulations.
- Ensures employees follow fire and hazard safety and security regulations.
- Provides feedback on Employee Opinion Survey results and implements changes.
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