Hospitality Head Chef - Canary Wharf

Hospitality | Fine Dining | Contract Catering

We are looking for an experienced, creative and highly organised Head Chef to lead the kitchen.

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate chef who thrives on delivering high-quality food, creating memorable dining experiences and managing a varied hospitality offering. With a growing focus on fine dining over the next year, this role offers the chance to bring fresh ideas, elevate menus and help shape the future of the food offering across both sites.

From beautifully presented fine-dining dishes to corporate conferences, sandwich platters and large-scale events for up to 350 guests, no two days will be the same.

What you'll be doing as Hospitality Head Chef: 

• Lead culinary operations across two sites, ensuring consistently high standards of food quality, presentation and service.
• Deliver exceptional fine dining, including menu development, creative plating and meticulous preparation
• Oversee conference and corporate catering, delivering high-quality food for meetings, conferences and business events.
• Manage large-scale events of up to 350 guests, ensuring smooth planning, preparation and execution.
• Develop menus and concepts across fine dining, event catering, conference dining and sandwich platters, balancing creativity with commercial awareness.
• Lead and develop the kitchen team, working closely with the Sous Chef and supporting a brigade of six.
• Build strong client relationships, understanding client requirements and delivering a consistently excellent service.
• Manage kitchen logistics, including staffing, ordering, stock control, food costs, preparation schedules and service delivery.
• Maintain the highest standards of food hygiene, health and safety and kitchen organisation.
• Bring new ideas and innovation to the food offering, helping drive the evolution towards a more premium, fine-dining-led experience.

We are looking for a confident and creative Head Chef who combines culinary flair with strong organisational and logistical skills.

What you'll need to succeed as Hospitality Head Chef: 

• Proven experience as a Head Chef, Senior Sous Chef or in a similar senior kitchen leadership role.
• A background in fine dining, premium hospitality, events, hotels or B&I catering.
• The ability to manage events for significant guest numbers while maintaining exceptional food quality and presentation.
• Strong menu development skills and plenty of ideas to enhance the overall dining experience.
• Excellent planning, organisation and logistical management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities across two sites.
• A commercially minded approach to budgeting, food costs, stock management and operational efficiency.
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to motivate, develop and support a kitchen team.
• Excellent client-facing and communication skills, with a passion for building long-term relationships.
• A flexible, hands-on approach and the ability to adapt to changing client and business needs.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a varied, high-profile hospitality operation, lead a close-knit kitchen team and make a real impact on the food offering across two sites.

Ready to take the next step in your culinary career? Apply today.

We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• Contributory pension scheme
• Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes
• Quick access for you and your immediate family to a Digital GP, and wider healthcare benefits
• Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more
• Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
• Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
• Receive cash rewards every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
• Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
• You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families

About Us

Restaurant Associates provides brilliant hospitality through our food, drink and services. We work with our partners and collaborate with our clients to achieve great things together.Every day, our teams of passionate hospitality professionals strive for excellence in delivering employee dining and hospitality to some of the UK's leading workplace as well as inspiring exceptional experiences in iconic cultural and heritage destinations.

Job Reference: com/1910/C21401/51993374/SU #RA Group

Compass Group UK&I is committed to fostering an environment where every individual can truly be themselves at work and has equal opportunities to advance in their careers. We strive to build a culture that respects and celebrates the unique talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities of all our team members. We want our colleagues to feel valued, empowered to reach their full potential, and to thrive - because diversity is our strength!