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. The role requires 7-10 years of pastry experience, strong leadership, and the ability to scale pastry systems in a fast-growing hospitality platform.
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Responsibilities
- Lead pastry and dessert menu development across multiple brands
- Develop structured recipe packs, costing sheets, plating guides, and pastry SOPs
- Lead pastry execution for pre opening phases across new sites
- Recruit, train, and support pastry teams for new openings
- Ensure all pastry items are accurately costed and aligned with target GP
- Maintain highest standards of pastry quality, finish, taste, and presentation
- Lead, coach, and develop pastry teams across multiple sites
Requirements
- Minimum 7 10 years of pastry experience in premium hospitality or luxury dining
- Strong leadership experience in a senior pastry role across multiple outlets or brands
- Proven capability in pastry development, recipe structuring, costing, and operational rollout
- Experience in pre opening environments and menu mobilization
- Commercially literate with awareness of GP, cost control, and labor productivity
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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.
- The role combines creative and technical leadership with structured execution, commercial discipline, and cross site operational control.
Key Responsibilities
- 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
- Participate in early stage concept development and support brand build up
- Review BOH layouts, pastry section workflows, and site plans
- Advise on pastry equipment specification and procurement requirements
- Lead pastry execution for pre opening phases across new sites
- Recruit, train, and support pastry teams for new openings
- Deliver structured product training, demonstrations, and recipe rollouts
- Ensure all pastry items are accurately costed and aligned with target GP
- Monitor wastage, portion control, production efficiency, and product mix
- Maintain highest standards of pastry quality, finish, taste, consistency, and presentation
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 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
- Flexible, resilient, and comfortable building systems and teams from scratch
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