Head Pastry Chef
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About the Role
The Food & Beverage Group seeks an experienced Head Pastry Chef to lead pastry development and operations across multiple brands and venues in Dubai. This multi-site role requires strong leadership, commercial discipline, and the ability to build scalable pastry systems during a growth phase.
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Responsibilities
- Lead pastry and dessert menu development across multiple brands, ensuring each offer reflects brand identity 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.
- Lead pastry execution for pre opening phases across new sites, ensuring dessert and bakery ranges are launch ready.
- Recruit, train, and support pastry teams for new openings, embedding technical standards and production discipline.
- Ensure all pastry items are accurately costed and aligned with target GP and pricing strategy.
- Maintain the highest standards of pastry quality, finish, taste, consistency, and presentation across all sites.
- Lead, coach, and develop pastry teams across multiple sites, creating strong standards of discipline and accountability.
- Work closely with Operations, Brand, Procurement, PMO, Marketing, and training teams to ensure pastry products are commercially integrated.
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.
- 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 and venues.
- The role combines creative and technical leadership with structured execution and cross site operational control in a fast growing hospitality platform.
Job Summary
- Leads development, execution, and continuous improvement of pastry and dessert offerings across multiple concepts.
- Responsible for creating commercially viable dessert ranges, standardizing recipes, and supporting BOH planning during fit out.
Multi Brand Pastry Development
- Lead pastry and dessert menu development across multiple brands.
- Develop structured recipe packs, costing sheets, plating guides, and pastry SOPs.
- Identify and develop signature items and scalable core recipes.
Brand Build Up and Project Development Support
- Participate in early stage concept development from a pastry perspective.
- Review BOH layouts and pastry section workflows for practicality and efficiency.
- Advise on pastry equipment specification and production planning.
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 and hands on support during soft openings.
Commercial and Cost Oversight
- Ensure all pastry items are accurately costed and aligned with target GP.
- Monitor wastage, portion control, and production efficiency.
- Work with Procurement to ensure cost effective supply of ingredients.
Quality, Compliance, and Governance
- Maintain highest standards of pastry quality and presentation.
- Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, and HACCP standards.
- Maintain version control of recipes and development trackers.
Team Leadership and Capability Building
- Lead, coach, and develop pastry teams across multiple sites.
- Support hiring decisions and pastry capability planning.
- Build training structures for replicable standards.
Cross Functional Collaboration
- Work with Operations, Brand, Procurement, PMO, and Marketing teams.
- Support menu integration into POS systems and training manuals.
- Contribute to product presentations and launch activity.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 10 years of pastry experience in premium hospitality.
- Strong leadership experience in a senior pastry role across multiple outlets.
- Proven capability in pastry development, costing, and operational rollout.
- Experience in pre opening environments and pastry training.
- Commercially literate with GP and cost control awareness.
- UAE or GCC experience preferred.
- Diploma or certification in Pastry Arts or related discipline preferred.
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