IHG Hotels & Resorts

Executive Chef - Holiday Inn Chennai

IHG Hotels & Resorts  •  Republic of India (Onsite)  •  1 day ago
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Job Description

What is the job?

As Executive Chef you’ll direct all kitchen activities and prepare our delicious food - helping create memorable experiences for guests - whenever and wherever they dine. You’ll also ensure quality, kitchen maintenance, and inventory functions kept to our high standards - to make sure your kitchen is always running smoothly.

Your day to day

People

•Direct daily kitchen activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
•Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues - recognise good performance
•Recommend or initiate any HR elated actions where needed
•Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive – connect departments to create sense of one team
•Promote teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination with other departments. Communicate with all hotel department heads to stay informed of kitchen needs and ensure timely responses to requests
Guest Experience
•Encourage guest feedback to improve guest satisfaction
•Answer guest questions about dishes and kitchen services
•Help the Food and Beverage Director with event planning

Responsible Business

•You’ll make sure our dishes are always at their best - we have standards - but it’s down to you to make that room special and memorable for guests
•Keep an eye on competitor activity / industry innovation to develop your own ideas in the kitchen
•Make sure food and drinks are secure and stored safely – always keep stock replenished to minimise waste
•Ensure that all kitchen equipment and environment are hygienic and working properly
•Always follow governmental regulations and company policies and procedures
•Ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done

Financial

•Complete forecasts, plans, and departmental production reports for management
•Help prepare the hotel’s annual budget and the setting of departmental goals
•Maintain costing and documentation of all dishes prepared and sold from the kitchen

Accountabilities

Supervise kitchen team in a large, luxury, or resort hotel with multiple major food and beverage outlets and banquet facilities with capacity to cater to more than 500 people. May oversee managers and/or supervisors and professional culinary staff

What we need from you

•Degree or certificate in culinary arts
•5 years’ experience as a chef
•Must speak local language(s)
•At least one year in a supervisory capacity, or equivalent combination of education and culinary/kitchen operations experience

How do I deliver this?

We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all IHG® hotels.

Each IHG® hotel brand delivers True Hospitality in their own way, and at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills.

·True Attitude: being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building genuine connections with guests
·True Confidence having the knowledge and skills to perform your role, and giving guests the confidence that they can trust you, to help and support them during their stay
·True Listening focusing on what your guest is saying, picking up on body language that is often overlooked, and understanding what the guest wants and needs
·True Responsiveness is about providing guests with what they need, and doing so in a timely and caring manner

There’s so much more to the job than we can capture here. It’s simply about creating great experiences, doing the right thing and understanding people.

IHG Hotels & Resorts

About IHG Hotels & Resorts

IHG Hotels & Resorts [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good.

With a family of 19 hotel brands and IHG One Rewards, one of the world's largest hotel loyalty programmes, IHG has over 6,300 open hotels in more than 100 countries, and a development pipeline of over 2,000 properties.

Luxury & Lifestyle: Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas, Regent Hotels & Resorts, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Vignette Collection, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Hotel Indigo

Premium: voco hotels, HUALUXE Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, EVEN Hotels

Essentials: Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, Garner hotels, avid hotels

Suites: Atwell Suites, Staybridge Suites, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Candlewood Suites

Exclusive Partners: Iberostar Beachfront Resorts

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated and registered in England and Wales. Approximately 345,000 people work across IHG's hotels and corporate offices globally.

Visit us online for more about our hotels and reservations and IHG One Rewards. To download the IHG One Rewards app, visit the Apple App or Google Play stores.

Industry
Travel & Hospitality
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Windsor, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
ihg.com
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