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All Accor

Global hotel management, franchising, loyalty program

Executive Sous Chef

Food & Beverage Operations ManagementUpdated on Nov 11
Full-timeSão Paulo, State of São Paulo, BrazilNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Responsibilities

  • Translate the Executive Chef’s guidelines into tactical plans and priorities for kitchen operations, aligning production, events, points of sale, and other food-and-beverage interfaces.
  • Coordinate kitchen operations in the management routine, monitoring the Chef de Cuisine, Sous Chefs, and other operational leaders to ensure consistency across shifts, services, and events.
  • Monitor consolidated area indicators, including food cost, waste, inventory, productivity, hours worked, quality, and guest satisfaction, and propose and lead action plans.
  • Support the Executive Chef in preparing and monitoring the kitchen budget, forecasts, investments, and targets by providing operational analyses and recommendations to optimize results.
  • Ensure implementation of concepts, menus, technical recipes, presentation standards, and culinary direction set by the Executive Chef, monitoring adherence, yield, and cost.
  • Coordinate kitchen production and capacity planning for peak demand, major events, and new experiences, assessing resources, ingredients, equipment, staffing, and operational risks.
  • Analyze consolidated stock, inventories, consumption, losses, leftovers, and requisitions, directing corrections and monitoring cost and waste targets.
  • Ensure operational governance of food-safety standards, self-control procedures, good practices, hygiene, personal and collective protective equipment, sustainability, and other applicable procedures, and monitor corrective plans.
  • Coordinate operational staffing levels, high-level schedules, vacations, and coverage, proposing adjustments to the Executive Chef to support productivity, operational continuity, and legal compliance.
  • Lead, develop, and evaluate kitchen leaders; provide feedback, monitor performance, support succession, and strengthen team autonomy and accountability.
  • Conduct operational management meetings and, when assigned, participate in meetings with Food and Beverage, Events, Purchasing, Controlling, People and Culture, and other areas, representing the kitchen on matters within the role’s responsibility.
  • Manage critical operational, guest, and event incidents, making decisions within delegated authority and escalating strategically, reputationally, or financially significant matters to the Executive Chef.
  • Replace the Executive Chef during absences within previously defined authority, ensuring continuity of management, decision-making, and communication with partner areas.
  • Support selection, mobility, and development processes for kitchen leaders, contributing to structural stability and talent retention.
  • Promote execution discipline, productivity, continuous improvement, and integration among leaders, ensuring strategic decisions are translated into measurable operational results.
  • Reflect Accor values, strengthen the Heartist culture, understand and apply compliance and data-protection policies, and perform related duties as required.

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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