Chef de Cuisine

About This Role

Leading the professional kitchen of a corporate restaurant is the core of this Chef de Cuisine role at Sodexo in Brussels. You will manage a varied range of culinary and administrative tasks, overseeing a team and ensuring high-quality meal production for daily service and special events.

Responsibilities

• Prepare approximately 500 hot meals per day, in collaboration with the kitchen team
• Manage the coffee corner activity, serving around 450 customers daily
• Prepare and organize lunch breaks, aperitifs, and other events such as banquets for up to 300 people
• Develop menus
• Receive merchandise and approve invoices
• Manage screen communication
• Place orders, arrange their delivery across multiple floors, and distribute them to various sales points on site
• Work with kitchen-related IT tools such as MMS, Menu Modern Recipe, order management, and tracking
• Receive deliveries and carefully control their quality and quantity
• Verify purchase orders and deliveries
• Supervise preparations and control the quality of dishes before they are served to customers
• Ensure compliance with recipes, Sodexo quality standards, and specific dietary requirements
• Supervise and organize the work of a team of approximately 10 employees
• Ensure a good distribution of tasks and collaborate closely with the site's Account Manager
• Adopt a "zero risk mindset" regarding safety for yourself and others
• Ensure quality service and be responsible for cleaning quality controls
• Work safely and meticulously, and ensure this safety culture is respected throughout the team

Requirements

• Hotel school diploma
• Proven experience in collective kitchen management or corporate catering
• Ability to manage large-scale production while guaranteeing service quality
• Good knowledge of HACCP standards and inventory management
• Experience in administrative tasks
• Proficient with IT tools, including Excel, Outlook, Teams, and online ordering systems
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage priorities
• Leadership skills, capable of supervising and motivating an operational team
• Fluent in French
• Flexible and versatile
• Resilient to stress and in good physical condition
• Team player who adheres to a "One Team" approach

Benefits

• Hospitalization and dental insurance (after 1 year)
• Group and immediate disability insurance
• Year-end bonus (13th month)
• Ecocheques