Kitchen Manager Opportunities - South Wales Area

Kitchen Manager Opportunities - South Wales Area - Up to £30K + Benefits

As a Kitchen Manager you’ll lead the way to ensure all food is prepared safely, cooked perfectly and presented irresistibly. This is an opportunity to make your mark by demonstrating your ability to manage stock controls, food margins alongside developing your team. We are looking for Kitchen Manager across our Portsmouth site locations.

Inside the Role

Reporting to the General Manager, you will play a pivotal part in the daily success and running of the restaurant and deliver a best in class restaurant experience through:

• Support the General Manager in the recruitment, induction and on boarding of any new Kitchen team members.
• Demonstrate your leadership with a hands-on approach and effective communication, engaging and motivating your team through pre-shift briefs.
• Manage stock control and food margins.
• Manage NSF, EHO and Health and Safety audits to a high standard.
• Deliver to spec and brand standards.
• Drive individual high performance through development and regular one to ones.
• Have an eye for detail and thrive in a high volume fast paced environment.
• Show passion for the brand, visible when ensuring your team are knowledgeable and confident.

What we’d like from you

We want you to be the best at what you do and will give you the tools to excel. It’s up to you to show what you’ve got when it comes to serving up excellence, together with your skills, personality and passion to create moments that matter for our teams and guests.

To deliver what we we’re looking for, you’ll already have experience in the kitchen as an existing Sous Chef, Head Chef or Catering Manager Catering Manager who want to be part of a dynamic management team and our vision, develop yourself in a market leading company.

If you are committed to learning and improving all the time, organised and always ready for a challenge then we are looking for individuals like you to go the extra mile and make sure our food is always tasty, safe and well- presented then we’d love to hear from you.

In return for your commitment, we have some great benefits on offer

Offering more than just a great career opportunity that starts with the best induction and training there is a salary up to £30K and a bonus potential of up to 25% of your annual salary.

• Excellent access to training and development programmes.
• 25% off in Whitbread Restaurants and up to 50% off Premier Inn hotels
• 33 days holiday
• Individual BUPA Healthcare
• Optional contributory pension matched up to 10%
• Company Share save scheme
• High street and retail discounts, including phone packages, cinema tickets and Gym membership.

Whitbread is an inclusive employer. We believe that everyone is unique and there should be no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We welcome your application whatever your background or situation. Under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities & members of the LGBTQ+ community (those who identify as gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, trans sexual, non binary or use another term), are strongly encouraged to build a career with us. We are open to part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this.