Salary- £43,000
FREE On-Site Lunches: Enjoy complimentary lunches, saving you time & money while ensuring you stay nourished & energised throughout the day.
Support Your Way of Life:
- Flexible Working: We offer full-time & part-time roles, with varying shift patterns across the business. Allowing colleagues the flexibility to balance their personal & professional commitments
- Holiday Allowance: Relax & recharge with 28 days holiday, increasing to 31 days after two years service
- Family Leave: Prioritise family commitments with flexible leave options
- Paid Charity Leave: Make a positive impact with two additional paid days for charity work
Lexington is an award-winning contract caterer that focus on providing great food and service to customers.
To do this we need fabulous people and we work hard to create an environment where our team members feel engaged, inspired, valued and enjoy what they do.
Job Description
In this role you will proactively manage teams on site as well as be accountable for recruiting, inducting, training, and supporting colleagues to deliver an efficient, high-quality service to Lexington, our customer and clients.
Responsibilities:
- Leading and driving excellent food standards across all provisions
- Controlling and managing a budget including presenting finance alonsgide the GM and Operations Manager
- To support client relationships within the contract, delivering a partnered approach
- To drive and motivate your kitchen team, develop and nurture excellence, including succession planning
- Accountable for ensuring ongoing team communications, including building internal and external relationships, management reporting and client liaison to enable operational excellence
- Accountable for all things food within all areas of delivering
- To champion allergy management in all areas of the site
- To support excellent hospitality standards within the business including plans to improve week on week
- To lead and drive nutritious menus coupled with community likability
- Ownership of kitchen health and 5* food hygiene ratings
- To attend Company events to support your development and Company networking
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday plus
Skills and Experience
In this role:
- Proven Chef Manager or Exec Chef
- Genuine interest in customer service excellence
- Focused on the front line
- Proven team leader experience
- Self-motivated and able to work well unsupervised
- Previous experience within catering essential
- Educational catewring expereience essential
