Executive Chef

Majid Al Futtaim invites you to join us in our quest to create great moments
for everyone, everyday! We are the leading shopping mall, residential
communities, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa and
Asia, serving over ‎560 million visitors a year. For the past two decades, we
have shaped the consumer landscape across the region, transforming the way
people shop, live and play, while maintaining a strong sustainability track
record and the largest mall in the world to attain LEED Gold EBOM
Certification. We have over ‎40,000 team members in ‎15 international markets
representing over ‎100 nationalities - all keeping the customer at the heart of
everything we do. If you enjoy being BOLD, PASSIONATE and TOGETHER, then Majid
Al Futtaim is the destination for you.
We are looking for an experienced and qualified Executive Chef to organize the
kitchen's activities across LEC EG. You will be the first in command in the
facilities and will create and inspect dishes before they arrive at the
customers ensuring high quality and contentment, Plan, direct and participate
in food preparation and cooking activities in a restaurant environment keeping
hygiene and quality of food to a high standard, and to maintain monthly food
and beverage costs. Pre-opening tasks will be required.

Job Details - Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Supervise cooks and other kitchen staff in the preparation, cooking and presentation of food


• Order food and kitchen supplies based on best price and budget


• Check orders received for quantity and quality of product


• Create new recipes to please customers


• Hire and supervise kitchen staff


• Create menus


• Estimate labor and food costs and modify menus to stay within budget


• Check the quality of raw and cooked food products


• Approving and polishing dishes before they reached the customer.


• Ensure that sanitation standards are maintained


• Assist with staff development and training


• Meet with other managers in the organization


• Comply with nutrition and sanitation regulations and safety standards


• Promote their establishments by practicing good public relations


• Strict control over food and beverage costs to meet monthly budgets.


• Pre-opening staff training in regards to cooking, food preparation techniques.


• Strict hygiene training for pre-opening on continual monthly training.


• Pre-opening kitchen design and flow.


• Staff hiring and appraisals


• Set up and maintain functional kitchen for fast food industry.
  ‎2-Measure of Success - Illustrative KPIs:
  Other Context (if applicable):


• A keen sense of taste and smell


• Excellent hand-eye co-ordination


• Good arithmetic skills


• A good memory for details


• Artistic and creative talent


• Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills and team-building skills


• The ability to remain calm in hectic circumstances


• Excellent organizational, leadership and supervisory skills


• Enjoy working in a team environment


• Enjoy planning and organizing menus and methods of food preparation
  Personal Characteristics and Required Background:
  Skillset (job specific technical skills and behavioral competencies needed)


• A proven track record of creating similar, successful businesses - must be able to clearly example past results;


• Hands-on technical knowledge in kitchen designs and pre-opening staff training.


• A demonstrable commitment to delivering first quality customer service;


• Personable with excellent people skills


• Fluent in English, a second language an advantage
  Minimum experience/Qualifications:


• ‎5 - ‎10 experience in a similar position.


• Degree in Culinary Arts or comparable level of professional experience and training;