Head Pastry Chef
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About the Role
DEAL Holdings is seeking a Head Pastry Chef to lead pastry development and operations across multiple brands and venues. The role involves creating dessert ranges, standardizing recipes, training teams, and ensuring quality across sites.
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Responsibilities
- Lead pastry and dessert menu development across multiple brands, ensuring each offer reflects brand positioning and commercial needs
- Develop structured recipe packs, costing sheets, plating guides, prep guides, and pastry SOPs for operational use
- Participate in early stage concept development and support brand build up from a pastry perspective
- Review BOH layouts, pastry section workflows, and site plans for practicality and efficiency
- Lead pastry execution for pre opening phases, ensuring dessert and bakery ranges are launch ready
- Recruit, train, and support pastry teams for new openings
- Ensure all pastry items are accurately costed and aligned with target GP and pricing strategy
- Maintain highest standards of pastry quality, finish, taste, consistency, and presentation across all sites
- Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, HACCP, and kitchen cleanliness standards
- Lead, coach, and develop pastry teams across multiple sites
Requirements
- Minimum 7 10 years of pastry experience within premium hospitality, luxury dining, lifestyle café, or high quality restaurant environments
- Strong leadership experience in a senior pastry role, ideally across multiple outlets, brands, or properties
- Proven capability in pastry development, recipe structuring, costing, standardization, and operational rollout
- Experience in pre opening environments, menu mobilization, and pastry training for new sites
- Commercially literate with strong awareness of GP, cost control, portion management, and labor productivity
- Experience working alongside design, fit out, procurement, or project teams during kitchen development is a strong advantage
- UAE or GCC experience is preferred
- Diploma or certification in Pastry Arts, Culinary Arts, Baking, or a related discipline is preferred
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Role Purpose
- The Head Pastry Chef Multi Site is responsible for leading pastry development, operations, and team capability across multiple brands, venues, and future central production functions.
- The role combines creative and technical leadership with structured execution, commercial discipline, and cross site operational control.
- The business is in an intensive pre opening and launch phase; this role will support concept development and mobilization, then transition into long term multi site leadership.
Multi Brand Pastry Development
- Lead pastry and dessert menu development across multiple brands.
- Develop structured recipe packs, costing sheets, plating guides, prep guides, and pastry SOPs.
- Identify and develop signature items, hero products, seasonal pastries, and scalable core recipes.
- Ensure cross brand consistency in standards, documentation, and execution.
Brand Build Up and Project Development Support
- Participate in early stage concept development and support brand build up from a pastry perspective.
- Review BOH layouts, pastry section workflows, and site plans for practicality and efficiency.
- Advise on pastry equipment specification, procurement, and production planning.
- Attend fit out reviews and site visits to support operational readiness.
Pre Opening and Mobilization
- Lead pastry execution for pre opening phases across new sites.
- Recruit, train, and support pastry teams for new openings.
- Deliver structured product training, demonstrations, recipe rollouts, and pastry service guidance.
- Provide hands on support during soft openings and early trading periods.
Commercial and Cost Oversight
- Ensure all pastry items are accurately costed and aligned with target GP and pricing strategy.
- Monitor wastage, portion control, production efficiency, and product mix to improve margin performance.
- Work with Procurement and suppliers for appropriate sourcing and cost effective supply.
- Design pastry ranges with balance of creativity, operational practicality, and commercial return.
Quality, Compliance, and Governance
- Maintain highest standards of pastry quality, finish, taste, consistency, and presentation.
- Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, HACCP, and kitchen cleanliness standards.
- Support audit readiness, kitchen compliance checks, and internal governance.
- Maintain version control of recipes, development trackers, testing records, and product updates.
Team Leadership and Capability Building
- Lead, coach, and develop pastry teams across multiple sites.
- Support hiring decisions, team assessments, and pastry capability planning.
- Build training structures for replication of pastry standards across brands.
- Identify future talent and support succession capability.
Cross Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Operations, Brand, Procurement, PMO, Marketing, and training teams.
- Support menu integration into POS systems, training manuals, and launch materials.
- Contribute to product presentations, photography support, and launch activity.
- Support seasonal menu development, product refreshes, and multi brand pastry innovation.
Working Environment and Expectations
- This role operates within a startup growth environment with multiple live projects and openings.
- Must be comfortable working across several brands, concepts, kitchens, and operational priorities.
- Requires flexible working hours during build up, pre opening, and mobilization phases.
- Not a fixed hours, single location pastry role; requires ownership, adaptability, and strong field presence.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 10 years of pastry experience within premium hospitality, luxury dining, lifestyle café, or high quality restaurant environments.
- Strong leadership experience in a senior pastry role, ideally across multiple outlets, brands, or properties.
- Proven capability in pastry development, recipe structuring, costing, standardization, and operational rollout.
- Experience in pre opening environments, menu mobilization, and pastry training for new sites.
- Commercially literate with strong awareness of GP, cost control, portion management, and labor productivity.
- Experience working alongside design, fit out, procurement, or project teams during kitchen development is a strong advantage.
- UAE or GCC experience is preferred.
- Diploma or certification in Pastry Arts, Culinary Arts, Baking, or a related discipline is preferred.
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