Junior Sous Chef

at  Apex Hotels Ltd

Job Ref: 11764
Branch: The Lampery - Seething Lane
Location: The Lampery, London
Salary/Benefits: Overtime, service charge and company benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Hours per week: 40 Hours
Posted date: 30/01/2025
Closing date: 15/03/2025

ROLE OVERVIEW:

This is a great time to join our team as a Junior Sous Chef you will assist in spearheading the London culinary experience and assist in driving our approach in delivering a high-quality food offering. You will be results driven and you will assist the Head Chef work closely with our supply chain partners, in house centralised services, and on property kitchen and front of teams to continue developing, researching, and implementing appropriate efficiency and quality changes across all outlets.
You will embrace every opportunity to create extra special moments for our guests and provide a personal experience our guests will want to share.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist in the Management of all food and sundry costs through rigorous stock control measures
• Analyse, and present monthly profit and loss commentaries with follow on corrective activity as directed by the Head Chef
• Assist with Daily / weekly payroll and food cost analysis in accordance with forecasted and materialised revenue levels to ensure optimal performance with overspend corrected within the same trading period and as directed by the Head Chef
• Assist the Head Chef in developing a multi skilled culinary team that delivers cluster payroll flexibility with minimal tiers.
• To be highly visible at key service periods focusing attention to detail on culinary delivery
• Maintain team focus on ‘the Customer’s need’ with service personalisation

We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in. To excel within this role, you will have:

• Clear and influencing communicator with the ability to interact across all levels
• Possess a sales and profit driven mentality
• Assists in Building and developing a guest centric team culture
• Ability to Identify and manage best resources to assist in achieving targets
• Food Safety Management and Professional Cookery qualification at level 2 or above
• Coaching, supporting, challenging mentality that delivers operational results
• Creates an open environmen