Baxterstorey
Regional Culinary Lead – Milton Keynes
Key Responsibilities:
- Supporting the Head of food to deliver the obsessed manifesto across the region.
- Providing strong culinary leadership and expertise to multiple locations, ensuring adherence to quality standards, recipes, and culinary guidelines.
- Collaborating with culinary teams to develop innovative and appealing menus, meeting customer preferences, dietary restrictions, and regional trends.
- Training, mentoring, and motivating culinary staff to achieve excellence in food preparation, presentation, and service, conducting regular training sessions.
- Maintaining strict quality control across all locations, ensuring consistency, taste, and presentation of dishes, conducting inspections and evaluations to address issues and implement corrective actions.
- Ensuring compliance with food safety regulations and sanitation standards, implementing and enforcing proper food handling and storage procedures.
- Managing food and labor costs within budgetary constraints, analyzing financial reports and implementing strategies to minimize expenses while maintaining quality.
- Fostering strong relationships and effective communication with other departments (operations, marketing, procurement) to align goals, streamline processes, and ensure a cohesive approach.
- Staying updated on culinary trends, techniques, and ingredients, seeking opportunities to innovate and enhance the dining experience.
Skills and Expertise:
- Proven experience in a demanding kitchen at the relevant level
- Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate or above
- Team player
- Negotiation and relationship building skills with suppliers
- Understanding of food provenance and sourcing
Job Facilities/Benefits:
- 35 Days holiday including bank holidays
- Birthday off
- 3 Volunteering days
- 3 Grandparent leave days
- 24 Weeks enhanced maternity leave
- Company car scheme or car allowance
- Secondary career leave
- Wedding/commitment day leave
- BUPA family cover
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Apprenticeships opportunities for all experience levels
- Pension and life insurance
- Discounts on HAPI app (high street shops, holidays, cinema)
- Wellbeing hub
- Employee assistance programme access
- Cycle to work scheme