Executive Sous Chef - InterContinental Brisbane

As the world's largest family of luxury hotels, we all take great pride in being genuine ambassadors of the InterContinental® brand.

Shaped by decades of international know-how and local insights, our passion for luxury travel spans cultures and customs. Inspiring us to create warm and sophisticated experiences for those seeking a richer perspective on the world.

If you’d like to embrace a world of opportunities, we’d like to welcome you to the world’s most international luxury hotel brand.

Nestled in the heart of Brisbane’s CBD, InterContinental Hotel Brisbane will open to guests this winter, offering 321 spacious hotel rooms and suites, all day dining restaurant and lobby bar, outdoor pool, fitness centre and Club Lounge, all in a prime location above Queen Street Mall, perfect for exploring the city’s top attractions. With over 1800 square metres of meeting and events spaces, InterContinental Brisbane offers versatile function rooms and a Grand Ballroom catering for up to 1000 guests, making it a great choice for business and leisure events alike.

The moment a guest steps into one of our hotels, they walk into a genuinely memorable experience. As part of our Kitchen team, you’ll deliver this from the outset, delivering an exceptional dining experience that makes our guests and visitors alike, want to return time and again. Reporting to the Executive Chef, you are responsible for the overall delivery of the culinary divisions objectives by providing operational direction, support and guidance to a team of talented Chefs, catering to all of our outlets including All Day Dining restaurant, Lobby Lounge, Club InterContinental, Event Operations and In-Room Dining. 

A little taste of your day-to-day

Every day is different, but you’ll mostly be:

• Be responsible for maintaining and delivering world class food quality standards 
• Oversee department planning and rostering to ensure budgeted productivity and financial targets are achieved
• Coordinate culinary team resources, materials and equipment to ensure efficient execution of the culinary program across the hotel
• Driving continuous efficiency and productivity improvement
• Inspire, motivate, mentor and develop the culinary team
• Adhere to HACCP, Food Safety and WHS policies
• Waste management and minimizing cost control
• Collaborate closely with hotel teams across all dining venues and events to deliver a world class culinary experience

What we need from you

• Trade qualified with experience at Sous Chef or CDC or Head Chef level
• Must have previous experience in a premium venue, luxury hotel or similar high end environment
• Experience in a professional commercial kitchen with a passion for culinary arts
• Strong understanding of HACCP / Food Safety / WHS and QA
• You will have proven experience working with and achieving brand standards at luxury or similar level
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent time and interpersonal management skills
• Experience in manage a large cross functional team and developing an inspired, engaged culinary team
• Full working rights in Australia without restrictions.
• Impeccable grooming standards and good personal hygiene. 
• Physical fitness as you’ll be on your feet most of the day. Sometimes you’ll need to lift, push and pull objects, up to 23 kg – we have the equipment to support you and keep you safe.

What you can expect from us

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 – in return we’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including accommodation, package benefits, great room discount and superb training. 

We are proud to be IHG and we know you will be too.  Visit http://careers.ihg.com/ to find out more about us.