Company Description
Your Fairmont Journey Starts Here:
Are you a someone with a passion for excellence and a flair for exceptional hospitality? Fairmont Udaipur Palace invites you to embark on an unforgettable journey of luxury and join our pre-opening team.
Job Description
Responsibilities and essential job functions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Showcasing your artistic culinary talents through your menu design
- Leading the local market restaurant industry with trend setting food offerings
- Strives to advance his/her knowledge, skills and abilities and consistently shares same with others
- Making key operating decisions that impact the F&B offering for the restaurant
- Training a team of diverse and professional Colleagues to deliver on our dining experience
- Responsible for the food culture and food safety of the banquets
- Being a key leader in the hotel operations team
- Oversees daily Culinary operation and sets direction of the team and menu
- Works in conjunction with the PR and Marketing team to grow revenues via social and other marketing campaigns
- Preparation of financial forecasts and budgets for the Banquet team including ordering of product and scheduling of team members
- Ensuring proper inventory control and ordering practices are utilized
- Sets and oversees the goals as identified through employee engagement surveys.
- Leading initiatives to guarantee Guest Satisfaction Scores are achieved
- Training and development of culinary team members with emphasis on team leads, food presentation and preparation methods
- In conjunction with other leaders, the Chef de Cuisine will ensure the kitchen is maintained in optimum condition
- Instrumental in running a department that meets Health & Safety committee objectives
- Will support and provide direction for the menu development and implementation of menus with consideration to banquet concept, food trends, Guest Satisfaction results & food cost
- Actively involved in kitchen and department head meetings
Qualifications
- Creative, self-motivated, detail oriented and well organized
- Product and quality obsessed with good knowledge in menu engineering and design
- A team player with the ability to train, coach and motivate employees.
- Experience leading a fast paced culinary operation
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Previous experience scheduling of a large culinary team
- Understanding of labor costs and productivity
- Versed on calculation of food cost; Experience with conducting food inventories and understanding of inventory turn-over
- Minimum 3 years in a similar role
Additional Information
Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are an inclusive company, and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.
