EXECUTIVE CHEF - Shelter Hall
£40,000 - £45,000 OTE inclusive of Service Charge + Bonus + Share Options

WHO ARE SESSIONS?
We're Sessions - a growth platform for original food brands & experiences. 🍔🍽️

• Creators in food.
• Challengers in brand development.
• Leaders in licensing.
• Disruptors in franchise.
• Originals, in everything.

Founded in 2020, we’re on a mission to bring non-stop
originality to every kitchen and food lovers across the UK. 

This role is based within our flagship landmark Food Hall on Brighton’s seafront! Shelter Hall is made up of 7 kitchens and 2 permanent bars split across 2 floors including cocktail room (Skylark), with private dining and unbeatable outside space along with seasonal pop up bars and kitchens.

Shelter Hall combines a fantastic choice of cuisines and beverages for our guests, to be either ordered through the Shelter Hall app and delivered to their table by our floor team, or at the counter/bar.

Who's Hungry?

🏃‍♀️ We are Agile - We are customer-obsessed and adapt as needed to meet their needs
🌍 We are Ambitious - We aim to not only discover but create on-trend brands and are excited by the work required to become a tastemaker brand
🤪 We are Fun - We keep playfulness at the centre of our culture so that we can deliver on the very serious business of keeping food fun
🤖We are data-driven - We don't make assumptions based on what has always been done and instead focus on what the data tells us should be done

Our benefits list got too long and we had to move it to the bottom 😮

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Executive Chef is responsible for ensuring success across all aspects of Shelter Halls kitchens business through management of the teams, operations, P&L and planning of the kitchen(s) operated, in collaboration with the site team.

The kitchens within Shelter Hall are a mix of licenced out to external operators and also, 1 or 2 kitchens operated by Sessions ourselves. 
The Executive Chef will be the Head Chef of the managed kitchens and ensure quality and compliance is being achieved by those licenced units and their teams. 

This is a hands on role, you will be expected to work evenings and weekends as part of the position.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Work alongside the Head of Programme on the food brand direction of the operated kitchens within the Shelter Halls curated offer
• Work as the Head Chef for the managed unit(s) including full service
• Development of additional bespoke menus within the food hall in collaboration with and fulfilling a brief from the Shelter Hall team.
• Deliver live brands and adapt specifications for highest level food hall output, feeding back to the training team and founders where needed
• Introduce and incubate new licenced brands, development and outreach where required
• Assist with kitchen redesign / adaptation and equipment partnerships where required
• Ensuring smooth running day to day of the kitchens, hands on management of the team and their operations
• High level management of kitchen team members including recruitment, training, development & performance duties
• Ensuring quality of product is always consistent with brand standards and fulfilling food hall brief
• Compliance regarding health & safety and food safety within the spaces and support/ input into 3rd party food hall kitchen compliance
• Creation of kitchen organisational structures and procedures/processes
• Responsible and accountable for delivering on the financial and operational metrics of the units – full P&L ownership
• Audit responsibilities for the partner brands operating out of Shelter Hall to make sure they are adhering to high standards in all areas
• Responsible for ensuring all Chefs are fully certified, compliant and trained, have access and are fully informed on site performance
• Working towards a more socially responsible business with B-Corp status, including recycling, limiting waste and energy saving alongside food hall strategy
• Building on the Sessions culture to create and run highly motivated, engaged and happy teams that deliver on our business goals
• Flexibility to take on reasonable further responsibilities and requests as well as above in this fast-paced, high growth start up
  
• Any other reasonable request asked by Sessions

REQUIREMENTS:

• Senior Chef experience
• Strong at financial, office based side of the role as well as the cooking side
• Street hustler with lots of tenacity, capable of ‘getting stuck in’ and delivering results in a start-up environment
• Excited to collaborate and tackle problems outside of one's comfort zone
• Well-rounded and willing to flex to take ownership where necessary beyond core responsibilities
• Tenacious and assertive
• Enthusiastic and natural problem solver
• Enjoys working with people (facilitating and collaborating)
• Charismatic and energetic with a passion for food
• Expert level of English language
• Right to work in the UK
  

BENEFITS - What Sessions can offer you

Financial Wellbeing:

💰 Bonus Scheme
💸 Pay day on demand - Choose a payday that suits you best, with the ability to transfer salary for days already worked whenever you like.
💳 Expense card - Don't find yourself short whilst waiting for expenses to be paid, the majority of our headquarters staff will be given their own Soldo company card.
🏠 Mortgage Benefit - Help for first time buyers, Free Broker fees, AI Mortgage Tracker
💷 Save Money on Bills Benefit - Using Nous, money saving experts

Social, Mental & Physical Wellbeing:

🏖 Holidays - We offer 33 days holiday
👨‍⚕️Preventative Healthcare - Sessions are partnered with Qured, to keep people fit and healthy and regularly tested vs waiting for you to become ill
😇 Volunteering Day - Take a day at full pay to support one of our partner charities
🚨 Employee Assistance Programme - Support for health, finance and legal services for you and your direct family.
🍕 Discounts - Enjoy discounts in our food hall venues and on Deliveroo for our brands

Technology Perks:

💻 Laptop - Apple Mac or Windows Laptop? Your choice! and most of us don't judge...
📱 Phone - Apple iPhone and company sim provided where necessary for the role

Join a company looking to change the face of the hospitality industry.

Sessions are a living wage and equal opportunity employer.

We are a living wage and equal opportunity employer - all applicants are reviewed 'anonymously' where only work experience and education will be available for the hiring manager to view - all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

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