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All Accor

Global hotel management, franchising, loyalty program

Chef de cuisine

Food & Beverage Operations ManagementUpdated on Nov 11
Full-timePresles, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Guarantee compliance with regulatory requirements for hygiene, food safety, and traceability.
  • Ensure proper application of the food safety management plan and HACCP procedures.
  • Manage food costs, labor costs, inventories, purchasing, and departmental financial performance.
  • Recruitment and team leadership experience suitable for directing a brigade of approximately twenty employees is needed for the described role.

Responsibilities

  • Define and sustain a distinctive culinary identity aligned with the establishment’s history, destination, architecture, and positioning.
  • Develop creative cuisine emphasizing product quality, seasonality, local producers, and balanced flavors.
  • Design, renew, and structure menus for the restaurant, bar, room service, breakfast, banquets, and events, as applicable.
  • Ensure a consistent culinary experience across services while adapting offerings to different customer segments.
  • Develop collaborations with local producers, artisans, chefs, and partners when they support the hotel’s positioning.
  • Ensure consistent food quality, execution, and presentation.
  • Supervise production organization, preparation, service dispatch, and coordination across kitchen stations.
  • Maintain an appropriate operational presence during peak activity and key customer-service periods.
  • Work closely with restaurant management and dining-room teams to ensure a smooth, personalized, and consistent guest experience.
  • Account for customer preferences, allergies, dietary requirements, and specific requests.
  • Analyze customer feedback, online reviews, and satisfaction indicators and define corrective actions.
  • Ensure high-quality catering for events, group meals, receptions, and high-visibility functions.
  • Direct and organize a kitchen brigade of approximately twenty employees, including section chefs, sous-chefs, and production managers.
  • Set individual and team objectives, conduct professional reviews, and support career development.
  • Prepare schedules and allocate staff according to activity forecasts, service needs, and regulations.
  • Build a management culture based on role modeling, knowledge transfer, accountability, and mutual respect; develop versatility and skills and prepare future supervisors.
  • Maintain a professional and inclusive working environment, address management issues, and enforce kitchen operating rules.
  • Prepare the annual kitchen department budget and contribute to activity forecasts.
  • Analyze variances between budget, actual results, and forecasts, and implement action plans.
  • Create recipe specification sheets and control portion weights, yields, and costs.
  • Optimize purchasing, stock, inventory, product rotation, and waste reduction.
  • Participate in supplier negotiations and select partners based on quality, reliability, cost, and responsible-business commitments.
  • Increase revenue and margins through menu engineering, sales analysis, and product presentation.
  • Decide on equipment investments and contribute to the department’s investment plan.
  • Supervise temperature controls, cooling, storage, reheating, and allergen-management procedures.
  • Ensure cleanliness, maintenance, and compliance of premises, equipment, and tools.
  • Organize internal inspections, prepare audits, and follow up on corrective actions.
  • Train and inform teams on hygiene and safety practices, anticipate health risks, and implement immediate measures when requirements are not met.
  • Contribute to workplace risk prevention and employee safety.
  • Reduce food waste through production planning and regular loss analysis; optimize water, energy, and consumable use.
  • Integrate the establishment’s environmental commitments into kitchen practices and participate in its corporate social responsibility initiatives.
  • Participate in executive committee meetings and strategic decisions as a member of the committee.
  • Represent the culinary vision in the hotel’s commercial positioning, guest experience, and development strategy.
  • Contribute to the overall budget, results monitoring, and performance analysis.
  • Work cross-functionally with accommodation, food and beverage, commercial, finance, technical, and human resources departments.
  • Translate annual establishment objectives and strategic direction into operational action plans.
  • Identify opportunities to grow revenue, develop the offering, and improve profitability.
  • Contribute to decisions on investment, organization, human resources, and transformation of dining spaces.
  • Represent the establishment and its culinary identity to guests, partners, suppliers, and local stakeholders.

About the Company

All Accor

Global hotel management, franchising, loyalty program

Accor is a global hospitality group with a wide range of hotel brands spanning economy to luxury. It earns revenue from room bookings, food and beverage services, and management fees from franchised properties, while providing hotel management and franchising services to partners. The company runs a loyalty program, A Club, to keep guests returning, and expands its capabilities through acquisitions like Adoria and a stake in Squarebreak to broaden its offerings. Its goal is to grow its footprint and deliver consistent, responsible guest experiences worldwide by leveraging global expertise and local know‑how, with a strong focus on sustainability.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Founded
1967

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