Italian Sous Chef at InterContinental Hotel Lagos

InterContinental Lagos is located on Victoria Island, in the centre of Lagos home to the majority of foreign embassies and multinational companies, making it the perfect residence for affluent business and diplomatic travellers. Built on an elevated terrain overlooking Lagos's port and the city below, the 19 storey hotel offers uninterrupted, spectacular views of Lagos Skyline. InterContinental Lagos comprises of 352 well-appointed, elegantly decorated rooms and suites as well as a Club InterContinental floor. Guests have access to an all-day dining restaurant, two specialty restaurants, room service and the pool bar for lighter meal choices and snacks. The lobby lounge and cocktail bar is the perfect setting for casual meetings over coffee or drinks. In addition, for the health conscious traveller there is a health club bar serving fresh juices. InterContinental Lagos also offers exclusive business and conference facilities including a state of the art ballroom with a foyer area, and several additional flexible meeting and breakout. Other amenities include a fully-equipped gym, outdoor pool, and retail space.

We are currently recruiting our Italian Sous Chef.

Job Title: Italian Sous Chef

Location: Lagos
Job Number: LAG000158

Job Description
As the Italian Chef, you will supervise the functioning of the Italian kitchen employees, food preparation and presentation in accordance to the Hotel's Food and Beverage standard and standardised menu guidelines, participate in the planning and costing of menus, develop and write standard recipes, develop new dishes and products, ensure that outstanding culinary technical skills are maintained, assist with organizing special events and special food promotions, maintain comprehensive product knowledge including ingredients, equipment, suppliers, markets, and current trends and make recommendations for appropriate adjustments to kitchen operations accordingly, maintain a hygienic kitchen.

Key responsibilities of the role includes:
To prepare, cook and serve authentic Italian dishes. You will also exhibit your culinary talents by personally performing tasks while leading the staff and managing all food related functions. In addition you will work with team to improve guest and employee satisfaction while maintaining the operating budget, ensuring that sanitation and food standards are achieved.

Remuneration
In return we'll give you a generous financial and benefits package including duty meals, hotel discounts worldwide and the chance to work with a great team of people. Most importantly, we'll give you the room to be yourself. At IHG we are committed to developing our team and managing our talent and would encourage internal as well as external candidates to apply for any of our vacancies.

Qualifications

• Culinary art degree or its equivalent with extensive experience in a similar capacity.
• Hands on Expetise in Italian Cusine
• Good understanding of the Hotel Industry standards, policies and procedures
• Extensive international experience in branded hotels
• Experience in high-end city operation with multi unit F&B and large Conference & Event
• Creative and open minded
• Good business mind and commercial flair
• Good understanding of the local business and operation environments and markets
• Service minded and ability to involve and support operations
• Business savvy and good people skills

Application Closing Date
3rd October, 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should
Click here to apply online