Executive Chef

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As Executive Chef you’ll direct all kitchen activities and prepare our delicious food - helping create memorable experiences for guests - whenever and wherever they dine. You’ll also ensure quality, kitchen maintenance, and inventory functions kept to our high standards - to make sure your kitchen is always running smoothly. You will be in charge of the kitchen operations within the Manhattan Bar, restaurant De Japanner, and the Banqueting area.​

Your day-to-day
People​

• Direct daily kitchen activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers  ​
• Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues - recognise good performance ​
• Recommend or initiate any HR-related actions where needed ​
• Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive – connect departments to create sense of one team ​
• Promote teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination with other departments. Communicate with all hotel department heads to stay informed of kitchen needs and ensure timely responses to requests ​

​Guest Experience​

• Encourage guest feedback to improve guest satisfaction ​
• Answer guest questions about dishes and kitchen services ​
• Help the Food and Beverage Director with event planning ​

Responsible Business​

• You’ll make sure our dishes are always at their best - we have standards - but it’s down to you to make that room special and memorable for guests ​
• Keep an eye on competitor activity / industry innovation to develop your own ideas in the kitchen ​
• Make sure food and drinks are secure and stored safely – always keep stock replenished to minimise waste ​
• Ensure that all kitchen equipment and environment are hygienic and working properly ​
• Always follow governmental regulations and company policies and procedures ​
• Ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done ​

Financial​

• Complete forecasts, plans, and departmental production reports for management ​
• Help prepare the hotel’s annual budget and the setting of departmental goals ​
• Maintain costing and documentation of all dishes prepared and sold from the kitchen ​

Accountabilities​
Supervise kitchen team in a large, luxury, or resort hotel with multiple major food and beverage outlets and banquet facilities with capacity to cater to more than 500 people. May oversee managers and/or supervisors and professional culinary staff

What we need from you

• Degree or certificate in culinary arts ​
• 5 years’ experience as a chef ​
• Must speak local language(s) ​
• At least one year in a supervisory capacity, or equivalent combination of education and culinary/kitchen operations experience ​

How do you deliver this?
We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all IHG® hotels.​

Each IHG® hotel brand delivers True Hospitality in their own way, and at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills.​

• True Attitude: being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building genuine connections with guests ​
• True Confidence: having the knowledge and skills to perform your role, and giving guests the confidence that they can trust you, to help and support them during their stay​
• True Listening: focusing on what your guest is saying, picking up on body language that is often overlooked, and understanding what the guest wants and needs​
• True Responsiveness: is about providing guests with what they need, and doing so in a timely and caring manner​

There’s so much more to the job than we can capture here. It’s simply about creating great experiences, doing the right thing and understanding people.​

What we offer
Besides a fair and competitive salary, you can enjoy the advantages of a large international group and the comfort of a local family hotel. The best of both worlds!​

As part of the IHG network, here are the benefits offered to you:​

• Employee discount for all 6000+ hotels in the IHG network​
• Friends and family rates to share with your close ones​
• Up to 50% discount at the related bars and restaurants in the network​
• International career opportunity: today in Amsterdam but tomorrow in Aruba, New York or Rome​

Crowne Plaza Amsterdam-South also has its own perks:​

• Easy to reach: only a 5-minute walk from the metro and train station Amsterdam Zuid;​
• A vibrant neighborhood with bars, restaurants, shops and a Thursday market with local products;​
• Homemade lunch/dinner provided during your working hours;​
• A discounted agreement for your health insurance;​
• Personal development such as training, internal growth and coaching;​
• A CultuurWerkt! account for you to get discounted tickets for theatre, cinema, dance...everything culture;​
• A discount on your ClassPass account for you to book workouts, beauty appointments or healthy meals;​
• Discount at Doctor Feelgood, the massage company across the street;​
• You can also use the gym facilities at the hotel, as long as it does not disturb any guests;​
• In-House Experience;​
• A fun team of like-minded people;​

About us​
Crowne Plaza Amsterdam-South is located in the bubbly Zuidas area, just a 5-minute walk from station Amsterdam Zuid which connects you to the city center within 10 minutes. Easy to reach, the area previously known as the financial district of Amsterdam is becoming more and more residential, with great bars, restaurants, shops and a Thursday market.​

The hotel offers 207 rooms, 6 meeting rooms, fitness facilities, a lively bar and two outdoor sun-terraces overlooking the Zuidas area. In 2024 the restaurant was rebranded to De Japanner Zuid, Amsterdam's very first izakaya concept, drawing inspiration from the traditional Japanese izakaya bars where locals gather to unwind with drinks and snacks after work before starting their long trip back home.​

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us​

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law​