Executive Chef

About the role

We are seeking an Executive Chef to lead all culinary operations for our new concept. The role involves designing menus, overseeing kitchen staff, and ensuring the highest standards of food quality and service.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with cross‑functional teams to design kitchen layouts, workflows, and equipment requirements during pre‑opening.
• Lead supplier trials, ingredient approvals, kitchen testing, food‑safety licensing, and mock runs before launch.
• Oversee culinary standards across bakery, pastry, and hot‑kitchen divisions, scaling and documenting master recipes, SOPs, portion sizes, allergens and visual assets.
• Conduct shelf‑life testing, menu engineering, sensory evaluations and trial runs for new cloud‑kitchen or B2B opportunities.
• Convert store forecasts into efficient daily, weekly and monthly production schedules and manage workflow execution.

Required profile

• Strong culinary background with proven leadership experience in a high‑volume environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage kitchen staff, suppliers and cross‑functional partners.
• Experience with food‑safety licensing, ingredient approvals and kitchen testing.
• Ability to balance creativity with scalability, cost efficiency and operational simplicity.

Required skills

• Menu engineering
• Recipe scaling
• Shelf‑life testing
• Food safety licensing
• Ingredient approvals