Executive Chef at Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre
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About the Role
The Executive Chef at Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre is responsible for the hotel's culinary strategy and daily kitchen operations, ensuring exceptional menu quality and guest experiences across all dining venues.
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Responsibilities
- Develop the Culinary and Stewarding business plan considering market strategy, financial targets, and business volumes.
- Manage the Culinary and Stewarding budget and forecast to support achievement of the hotel’s commercial goals.
- Review departmental results including sales, food costs, profit margins, wastage, breakage, and guest satisfaction, and take action to improve performance.
- Partner with F&B Operations to create attractive F&B concepts, menus, products, and promotions that drive revenue and profit.
- Deliver delicious, high quality, well presented food to meet guests’ needs.
- Support Hilton’s sustainability goals through local sourcing, seasonal produce, minimizing food waste, recycling, and efficient energy and water consumption.
- Ensure the Culinary team prepare, present, and deliver dishes on time with pride and precision.
- Ensure food allergies and dietary requirements are treated seriously and chefs are trained on correct food handling.
- Review and act on guest feedback, resolve complaints, and improve guest loyalty.
- Lead, develop, and inspire the Culinary and Stewarding teams, creating an inclusive environment.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, hygiene regulations, food safety certification, and daily kitchen records.
- Work with Purchasing to select suppliers and create efficient purchasing processes.
Requirements
- Current/Previous experience as Executive Chef
- Solid experience with luxury hotel brands
- Commercial focus with demonstrated ability to deliver exceptional business performance
- Inspirational leadership and people management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Guest focus with experience in maintaining high standards of food production and hygiene
- Effective relationship management skills
- Creativity, strategic thinking, and strong problem solving skills
- Fluency in English
- Proficiency in F&B systems
- Competence in Microsoft Office applications
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Job Description
- The Executive Chef at Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre, a Forbes 5 Star luxury hotel, is responsible for the hotel’s culinary strategy and daily kitchen operations, ensuring exceptional menu quality, consistency, and guest experiences across all dining venues.
- This role will develop a high performing team, drive efficiency and profitability, maintain the highest brand and hygiene standards, and position the hotel’s restaurants and bars as preferred luxury destinations within the market.
Responsibilities
- Develop the Culinary and Stewarding business plan, considering market strategy, financial targets and business volumes, as well as customer and team member experience.
- Manage the Culinary and Stewarding budget and forecast to support achievement of the hotel’s commercial goals.
- Review departmental results including sales, food costs, profit margins, wastage, breakage, guest satisfaction and take action with the Culinary and Stewarding management team to improve performance.
- Partner with the F&B Operations team to create attractive F&B concepts, menus, products and promotions that drive revenue and profit.
- Deliver delicious, high quality, well presented food to meet guests’ needs and Instagram feeds!
- Support Hilton’s sustainability goals through local sourcing strategies, use of seasonal produce, minimizing food waste, recycling, and efficient energy and water consumption.
- Ensure the Culinary team prepare, present and deliver dishes on time, with pride and precision, to create exceptional guest experiences.
- Make sure that food allergies and dietary requirements are treated with absolute seriousness and that all chefs are trained on correct food handling.
- Review and act on guest feedback, taking prompt action to resolve guest complaints and improve guest loyalty.
- Collaborate with F&B Operations to enhance the hotel’s image through online reputation management for F&B, driving positive reviews on key platforms and websites.
- Lead, develop and inspire the Culinary and Stewarding teams, creating an inclusive environment where all Team Members can thrive and achieve their professional goals.
- Practice great people management, from recruitment to training to succession planning and recognition.
Qualifications
- Current/Previous experience as Executive Chef
- Solid experience with luxury hotel brands
- Commercial focus, with a demonstrated ability to deliver exceptional business performance and results
- Inspirational leadership and people management skills, with experience in leading, developing and motivating a large team and working effectively with other departments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to deliver a compelling message for the right audience, from team briefings to commercial business presentations to representing the hotel publicly
- Guest focus, experienced in implementing and maintaining the highest standards of food production, quality and hygiene to deliver memorable guest experiences
- Effective relationship management skills to build and maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders, internally and externally, including suppliers
- Creativity, strategic thinking, and strong problem solving skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast paced environment while remaining composed, adaptable, and focused when managing competing priorities
- Fluency in English
- Experience or strong understanding of social media management
- Proficiency in F&B systems
- Competence in Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
What will it be like to work for Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts?
- Waldorf Astoria provides guests the exceptional environment and the personalized attention of True Waldorf Service that creates a singular experience.
About Us
- At Hilton, we don’t just deliver exceptional experiences for our guests—we build an exceptional workplace for the Team Members who make it all possible.
- As a global leader in hospitality, we’ve welcomed more than 3 billion guests worldwide, all while staying true to our founding vision: to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality.
- Our award winning culture has earned us repeated recognition on the World’s Best Workplaces list by Great Place to Work and Fortune.
- Whether you’re starting your career or exploring something new, Hilton supports your journey every step of the way.
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