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Executive Chef Luxury Events & Corporate Catering
London (South West)
£75,000£80,000 + Bonus
Hands-On Leadership | Admin & Culinary Focus
An exciting opportunity has arisen for avisionary Executive Chefto join one of Londons most respectedluxury catering companies, renowned for its exceptional events, bespoke workplace dining, and culinary innovation.
This caterer has become a creative powerhouse in high-end hospitality, with expanding services across large-scale private and corporate events, and catering.
This confidential hire is crucial to the companys next phase of growth, with a strong focus oncorporate catering, operational excellence, and product innovation, while still staying true to the businesss heritage of crafting unforgettable food for fabulous occasions.
About the Role:
AsExecutive Chef, you will lead and inspire a highly skilled kitchen brigade and development team. The role combines strategic kitchen leadership, menu development, and operational oversight withhands-on involvement in the kitchen.
Youll work closely with the senior leadership team to evolve culinary offerings across the business from luxury workplace lunches to high-profile events ensuring creativity, consistency, and operational excellence at every touchpoint.
This is ahybrid role,ideal for a chef who enjoysbalancing the creative and administrativeaspects of running a best-in-class kitchen, while remaining a visible and influential presence on the pass.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor the kitchen, development, and production teams to deliver across events, workplace dining, and special culinary projects.
- Oversee all culinary operations, ensuring quality, cost control, and consistency across high-volume and high-standard output.
- Drive menu innovation and seasonal planning across multiple sectors, maintaining the brands signature flair and luxury positioning.
- Collaborate with client-facing teams to ensure culinary delivery exceeds expectations.
- Be actively involved in kitchen operations, including tastings, production, and event execution where needed.
- Lead on kitchen systems, documentation, costing, compliance, and people planning.
- Champion a positive, professional, and growth-oriented culture within the kitchen and wider business.
- Stay ahead of culinary trends, sustainability practices, and customer expectations.
About You:
- Significant experience in asenior kitchen leadership role(Head or Exec Chef level) withinluxury event catering, contract catering, or premium hospitality.
- Strong knowledge of large-scale catering, high-volume service, and complex logistics.
- Natural leadership skills with a collaborative, calm, and composed management style.
- Commercially savvy confident managing budgets, GP, planning, and supplier relationships.
- Exceptional organisation and time management able to juggle both hands-on work and strategic admin.
- Passion for beautiful food with high attention to detail and presentation.
- Forward-thinking with a desire to innovate and push boundaries across sectors.
- Familiar with the pace, complexity, and expectations of a high-end multi-service culinary business.
Package & Benefits:
- £75,000 £80,000per annum (depending on experience)
- Excellent work-life balance relative to the events industry
- Private medical insurance
- Bonus scheme
- Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programme
- Daily cooked meals at work
- Opportunities for professional development and internal growth
- Dynamic, creative and fast-paced working environment in a highly respected business
This is aconfidential vacancydue to internal planning. First-stage interviews may be held off-site. If you are a confident and capable executive-level chef with both creative passion and commercial acumen, we would love to hear from you.
Apply in confidenceto learn more about this pivotal opportunity in one of Londons most exciting culinary environments.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Change Hospitality is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, and we strive to ensure that every employee feels valued, respected, and supported. We believe that a diverse workforce strengthens our organisation and enhances our ability to deliver excellence.
