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Senior Operations Chef - London
Gaucho
Full Time
2 Years Experience
Coins Icon Competitive salary
Senior Operations Chef - London
Gaucho

Full Time
2 Years Experience
Coins Icon Competitive salary
Skills
Fine Dining Experience
Team Management
Menu Development
Fluent in English
Microsoft Office
Food Safety
Description
Gaucho Restaurants are delighted to be recruiting for an Senior Operations Chef. If you are a London based Senior Operations Chef who has a real passion for people and high quality fresh food we would like to hear from you!

Role Purpose:

The Senior Operations Chef will be responsible for the Operations Chef team and their support to allocated restaurants in key areas of food quality standards and spec delivery, timings, specials, budgeted labour achievement, cost of sales and Health and Safety adherence. The Senior Operations Chef will take charge of the key areas of food standards/spec delivery, achieving timings in service, implementations of specials, delivering labour within budget, cost of sales for food and both food hygiene and health and safety compliance. As ambassadors of the business they share their vision with the management teams in the restaurants work to develop those around them to drive the business forwards.

Financial Responsibilities
• Manage revenue conversion 
• Weekly financial analysis shared with the team
• Achievement of food end of month stock results within 0.5 variance
• Drives labour controls at each site to achieve budgeted labour requirements

People
• Oversees the Operation Chef team objectives & development plan
• Executes the succession plan in place, whilst improving retention
• Effective management and delegation to all members of the management team
• Practices open door policy with the team and makes time to ensure employee welfare
• Develop training systems that will strengthen the skill set of the Operations chef teams

Leadership Responsibilities
• Evidence of communicating information both up and down
• Manages both the team and seniors
• Driving Gaucho culture
• Completed leadership training with HRD
• Effective management of change within the restaurant
• Drive accountability
• Challenges seniors
• Inspires, guides and educates the management teams

Compliance
• Full kitchen management team trained to the correct level
• Personally, trained to the correct level
• Creating and implementing mis en place and line check lists
• Full accountability for all restaurant EHO scores
• 95% or above on internal monthly audits
• Full accountability for all guest feedback regarding food 

Essential skills
• 2-5  years Operations Chef experience at multi-site level in High end, fine dining, fresh food background 
• London food scene knowledge
• Inspirational leader
• Excellent communicator and strong ability to coach others
• Breeds brand loyalty
• Commercially driven and actively shares knowledge and experience with the group
• Proven record of managing finance & P&L

We offer:
· 28 paid holidays per annum inclusive of bank holidays
· 50% off your food bill for you and your friends & family at our restaurants
. Annually reviewed bonus scheme and optional Operations Manager Apprenticeship
· Cycle to work scheme
· Fantastic career growth opportunities with award winning learning & development programmes

Gaucho Restaurants are delighted to be recruiting for an Senior Operations Chef. If you are a London based Senior Operations Chef who has a real passion for people and high quality fresh food we would like to hear from you!

Role Purpose:

The Senior Operations Chef will be responsible for the Operations Chef team and their support to allocated restaurants in key areas of food quality standards and spec delivery, timings, specials, budgeted labour achievement, cost of sales and Health and Safety adherence. The Senior Operations Chef will take charge of the key areas of food standards/spec delivery, achieving timings in service, implementations of specials, delivering labour within budget, cost of sales for food and both food hygiene and health and safety compliance. As ambassadors of the business they share their vision with the management teams in the restaurants work to develop those around them to drive the business forwards.

Financial Responsibilities
• Manage revenue conversion 
• Weekly financial analysis shared with the team
• Achievement of food end of month stock results within 0.5 variance
• Drives labour controls at each site to achieve budgeted labour requirements

People
• Oversees the Operation Chef team objectives & development plan
• Executes the succession plan in place, whilst improving retention
• Effective management and delegation to all members of the management team
• Practices open door policy with the team and makes time to ensure employee welfare
• Develop training systems that will strengthen the skill set of the Operations chef teams

Leadership Responsibilities
• Evidence of communicating information both up and down
• Manages both the team and seniors
• Driving Gaucho culture
• Completed leadership training with HRD
• Effective management of change within the restaurant
• Drive accountability
• Challenges seniors
• Inspires, guides and educates the management teams

Compliance
• Full kitchen management team trained to the correct level
• Personally, trained to the correct level
• Creating and implementing mis en place and line check lists
• Full accountability for all restaurant EHO scores
• 95% or above on internal monthly audits
• Full accountability for all guest feedback regarding food 

Essential skills
• 2-5  years Operations Chef experience at multi-site level in High end, fine dining, fresh food background 
• London food scene knowledge
• Inspirational leader
• Excellent communicator and strong ability to coach others
• Breeds brand loyalty
• Commercially driven and actively shares knowledge and experience with the group
• Proven record of managing finance & P&L

We offer:
· 28 paid holidays per annum inclusive of bank holidays
· 50% off your food bill for you and your friends & family at our restaurants
. Annually reviewed bonus scheme and optional Operations Manager Apprenticeship
· Cycle to work scheme
· Fantastic career growth opportunities with award winning learning & development programmes