Head Pastry Chef
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About the Role
The Food and Beverage Group seeks a Head Pastry Chef to lead pastry development and operations across multiple brands and venues. This multi-site role requires strong pastry craftsmanship, commercial discipline, and experience in pre-opening environments.
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Responsibilities
- Lead pastry and dessert menu development across multiple brands, ensuring each offer reflects the positioning, guest experience, and commercial needs of the concept
- Develop structured recipe packs, costing sheets, plating guides, prep guides, and pastry SOPs for operational use across sites
- Identify and develop signature items, hero products, seasonal pastries, and scalable core recipes that strengthen brand identity while remaining operationally viable
- Ensure cross brand consistency in standards, documentation, and execution while respecting the individual DNA of each concept
- Participate in early stage concept development and support brand build up from a pastry and dessert perspective
- Review BOH layouts, pastry section workflows, and site plans to ensure practicality, safety, efficiency, and alignment with service needs
- Advise on pastry equipment specification, procurement requirements, and pastry production planning in line with site capacity and concept needs
- Lead pastry execution for pre opening phases across new sites, ensuring dessert and bakery ranges are launch ready on time
- Recruit, train, and support pastry teams for new openings, ensuring technical standards, presentation, and production discipline are embedded before launch
- Deliver structured product training, demonstrations, recipe rollouts, and pastry service guidance during mobilization
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, pastry operations, and pastry team capability across multiple brands, venues, and future central production functions within the group.
- The role combines the creative and technical leadership of a senior pastry chef with the structured execution, commercial discipline, and cross site operational control required in a fast growing hospitality platform.
- This is not a single site pastry position. It is a multi brand role requiring strong development capability, operational consistency, and the ability to build pastry systems that can scale across the wider portfolio.
Multi Brand Pastry Development
- Lead pastry and dessert menu development across multiple brands, ensuring each offer reflects the positioning, guest experience, and commercial needs of the concept.
- Develop structured recipe packs, costing sheets, plating guides, prep guides, and pastry SOPs for operational use across sites.
- Identify and develop signature items, hero products, seasonal pastries, and scalable core recipes that strengthen brand identity while remaining operationally viable.
- Ensure cross brand consistency in standards, documentation, and execution while respecting the individual DNA of each concept.
Brand Build Up and Project Development Support
- Participate in early stage concept development and support brand build up from a pastry and dessert perspective.
- Review BOH layouts, pastry section workflows, and site plans to ensure practicality, safety, efficiency, and alignment with service needs.
- Advise on pastry equipment specification, procurement requirements, and pastry production planning in line with site capacity and concept needs.
- Attend fit out reviews and site visits to support operational readiness and pastry section functionality before opening.
Pre Opening and Mobilization
- Lead pastry execution for pre opening phases across new sites, ensuring dessert and bakery ranges are launch ready on time.
- Recruit, train, and support pastry teams for new openings, ensuring technical standards, presentation, and production discipline are embedded before launch.
- Deliver structured product training, demonstrations, recipe rollouts, and pastry service guidance during mobilization.
- Provide hands on support during soft openings and early trading periods, adjusting products, prep systems, and team capability where needed.
Commercial and Cost Oversight
- Ensure all pastry items are accurately costed and aligned with target GP, pricing strategy, and ingredient availability.
- Monitor wastage, portion control, production efficiency, and product mix to improve margin performance across sites.
- Work with Procurement and suppliers to ensure appropriate sourcing, quality consistency, and cost effective supply of pastry ingredients and materials.
- Design pastry ranges with a balance of creativity, operational practicality, labor efficiency, and commercial return.
Quality, Compliance, and Governance
- Maintain the highest standards of pastry quality, finish, taste, consistency, and presentation across all sites.
- Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, HACCP, and kitchen cleanliness standards across all pastry operations.
- Support audit readiness, kitchen compliance checks, and internal governance requirements relevant to pastry production and documentation.
- Maintain version control of recipes, development trackers, testing records, and product updates in a structured and disciplined way.
Team Leadership and Capability Building
- Lead, coach, and develop pastry teams across multiple sites, creating strong standards of discipline, consistency, and accountability.
- Support hiring decisions, team assessments, and pastry capability planning for current operations and future openings.
- Build training structures that allow pastry standards to be replicated across brands and maintained after handover into operations.
- Identify future talent and support succession capability within multi site pastry operations and Central Production Unit structures.
Cross Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Operations, Brand, Procurement, PMO, Marketing, and training teams to ensure pastry products are launch ready and commercially integrated.
- Support menu integration into POS systems, training manuals, launch materials, and internal product communication where required.
- Contribute to product presentations, photography support, and launch activity related to pastry and dessert offerings where relevant.
- Support seasonal menu development, product refreshes, and multi brand pastry innovation across the group.
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.
Skills and Competencies
- Strong pastry craftsmanship combined with commercial discipline.
- Ability to lead multi site pastry operations with consistency and structure.
- Strong planning, documentation, and organizational capability.
- Hands on approach with high accountability during launch and early trading periods.
- Confident cross functional collaborator able to work effectively with culinary, operational, and project stakeholders.
- Flexible, resilient, and comfortable building systems and teams from scratch in a growth stage environment.
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