Job description
🎯 MISSION Lead and inspire Kitchen & Stewarding operations, delivering outstanding culinary quality, strict food safety standards, cost efficiency, and team excellence—while driving the overall profitability of the Food & Beverage Department. 🔑 WHAT WILL YOU HAVE TO DO? • Oversee daily kitchen and stewarding operations across all outlets. • Ensure high standards of food quality, presentation, hygiene (HACCP), and work safety. • Control food cost, inventory, wastage, and kitchen expenses; prepare annual kitchen budget. • Lead menu planning, buffet concepts, and special event menus; propose pricing based on cost targets. • Manage staffing, scheduling, recruitment, training, and performance development. • Coordinate with F&B service, Purchasing, Stores, Engineering, Sales & Banqueting for smooth operations. • Maintain kitchen equipment, facilities, and temperature control systems. • Monitor guest feedback and quality indicators; implement improvement actions. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Education & Training • Culinary degree from an international hotel school or formal Western-style apprenticeship • Relevant occupational training Languages • Fluent English Professional Knowledge • Food cost control & budgeting • Banqueting and promotional planning • Buffet design and culinary presentation concepts • Strong leadership and teamwork skills Experience • External candidates: 6–8 years in a similar position in comparable hotels • Internal candidates (Meliá): Minimum 2 years in the same position in similar hotels
Requirements
About the company
Somos la compañía líder en España y una de las mayores del mundo, con diez marcas reconocidas y más de 370 hoteles en cuatro continentes. Meliá Hotels International es el único entre los veinte mayores grupos hoteleros internacionales con un origen vacacional y con el tamaño ideal para combinar una excepcional hospitalidad con una gestión eficiente y cercana a sus stakeholders. Todo esto, unido a nuestra calidez y pasión españolas, nos hace únicos y diferentes. En Meliá todos somos Very Inspiring People, grandes profesionales que hacen el día a día más fácil y excepcional. Desde el recién llegado hasta el más veterano, todos ellos reúnen unas cualidades únicas e importantes que hacen que trabajar en Meliá sea una oportunidad de crecimiento constante y un pasaporte para crear tu futuro donde quieras.