Executive Chef - London

The multi-award-winning Butcombe Pubs & Inns division has an incredible opportunity for an Executive Chef to come and join our team!

Having won multiple awards for our food offering as well as current Best Managed Pub Co at this year's Publican awards and The Cateys - we take our food seriously! If you have a real passion for supporting and developing teams, overseeing the production of delicious, high-quality food with an emphasis on provenance, sustainability,, and innovation and want to help us grow our expanding estate of amazing pubs, this is the role for you.

What's in it for you:

• Great salary + car allowance


• Expenses


• Reward Platform - you can save money and gain cashback with a huge number of retailers, gyms, online shopping, groceries etc


• Bonus scheme


• Discounts in our pubs, brewery and suppliers.


Main Purpose of Job: To provide support to the Director of Food and Operations Manager in delivering a high-quality food offer in an efficient and profitable manner across the Liberation managed pub estate; inspiring and coaching our teams to success!

Main Responsibilities:

Production of a high quality, award winning, freshly prepared food offer in line with company food brief, working alongside our development chef.

Ensuring that food offer and resultant service facilitates a high quality of customer service.

Being operationally involved in the kitchens during trading periods and highly visible in your businesses - coaching our teams.

Induction and training of Head Chefs in line with company policies and values.

Ongoing training of kitchen teams to improve and develop skills and encourage progression within the business - identifying and retaining our future sous and head chefs.

Effective control of gross profit margin (GP%) and labour spend in line with agreed targets in your businesses. Ensuring effective menu planning, stock control, dish costing, minimising wastage, and portion control. Checking company specs and coaching teams accordingly.

Consolidating end of period stocktakes, checking accepted deliveries and credits; coaching teams to success with key actions and solutions.

Ensuring excellent standards of both food hygiene/safety and personal hygiene/presentation throughout the kitchen department and the ongoing training of kitchen teams with monthly visit checklists.

Delivering twice yearly changing menus within PW and training thereof, in line with company food brief, specs and segmentation, layered with external food offers in the summer and regular events. Managing your businesses daily/weekly specials.

Driving food sales through innovation and development within the food offer and social media channels; supporting and encouraging the correct use of food media throughout your businesses and promoting innovative business ideas.

Working with events team and development chef for menu enquiries and amendments.

To provide support and assistance with external catering operations and tenanted division that will include detailed deadlines, exceptional food quality to the Liberation Group standards and 'best practice' standards of food hygiene.

Assisting the Director of Food with product development and specification including support with new projects and retail openings.

Excellent knowledge of cooking ingredients and practices - we want you to pass on this knowledge!

Strong awareness of ingredients & menu trends and the industry

Proven leadership skills and the ability to motivate and inspire teams

Ability to maintain high standards and showing resilience - leading from the front

Organisational and administrative skills - understanding of recipe costing, stock and menu building software

Food Hygiene qualifications at CIEH Level 3 or above

1 or more years' experience in a similar role