Executive Chef | Voco Amritsar

Hotel: Amritsar (ATQAA), 7th Milestone, Airport Road, 143001

At voco, we’ve created a hotel brand that gives people a different choice. Hotels to count on but different enough to be fun. Unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. Our new family of hotels are connected by their own sense of style and individual character – and that’s something we make the most of. Finding the perfect mix of reliability and new experiences. Because we believe that when you respect individuality life gets interesting.

At the heart of every great stay is a great host. We think the trick to hosting is to take the time to understand what your guests need, and want. So, before they arrive, we find out more about them and how we can make their stay better. Whilst they are with us, we give tempting recommendations of our favourite drinks or food, or tips for local experiences that they won’t find in any guide book.

Join the Team at the Pre-Opening of voco Amritsar, located with excellent road connectivity to the city’s commercial and residential hubs, voco Amritsar caters to a dynamic mix of corporate, SME, and MICE clientele in a substantially competitive market. The voco Amritsar is located approximately 11.6 kilometers (7.2 miles) from the Golden Temple and 13 kilometers (8.0 miles) from Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport.

With 139 well-appointed rooms, the hotel offers full-service F&B outlets including an All-Day Dining restaurant (90 covers), Lobby Lounge (30 covers), and Bar (60 covers), along with 24-hour Room Service. Our meetings and events space accommodates up to 500 guests, supported by additional leisure and wellness facilities such as a Health Club, Swimming Pool, and a boutique Spa.

What is expected from you?

As a part of management committee member, you shall be responsible to drive success for voco Amritsar.

What is the job?

As Executive Chef, you will lead the kitchen operations across all outlets and events, bringing creativity, consistency, and leadership to the heart of our culinary offering. You’ll be responsible for menu planning, kitchen staff development, cost control, food safety compliance, and delivering exceptional dining experiences that align with brand and guest expectations.

We’re looking for an innovative culinary leader with a strong background in multi-outlet operations, banquet experience, and a passion for quality, presentation, and team culture.

Your day to day

People

• Direct daily kitchen activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
• Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues -recognise good performance
• Recommend or initiate any HR related actions where needed
• Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive – connect departments to create sense of one team
• Promote teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination with other departments. Communicate with all hotel department heads to stay informed of kitchen needs and ensure timely responses to requests

Guest Experience

• Encourage guest feedback to improve guest satisfaction
• Answer guest questions about dishes and kitchen services
• Help the Food and Beverage Director with event planning

Responsible Business

• You’ll make sure our dishes are always at their best - we have standards - but it’s down to you to make that room special and memorable for guests
• Keep an eye on competitor activity / industry innovation to develop your own ideas in the kitchen
• Make sure food and drinks are secure and stored safely – always keep stock replenished to minimise waste
• Ensure that all kitchen equipment and environment are hygienic and working properly
• Always follow governmental regulations and company policies and procedures
• Ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done
• Complete forecasts, plans, and departmental production reports for management
• Help prepare the hotel’s annual budget and the setting of departmental goals
• Maintain costing and documentation of all dishes prepared and sold from the kitchen

Accountabilities

Supervise kitchen team in a large, luxury, or resort hotel with multiple major food and beverage outlets and banquet facilities with capacity to cater to more than 500 people. May oversee managers and/or supervisors and professional culinary staff.

What we need from you

• Degree or certificate in culinary arts
• 5 years’ experience as a chef
• Must speak local language(s)
• At least one year in a supervisory capacity, or equivalent combination of education and culinary/kitchen operations experience

What we offer

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great work environment and benefits – including but not limited to F&B Discount, IHG Employee Rate, Hotel Uniform, Meal at Employee Restaurant, excellent development, and advancement opportunities across the globe.

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.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements in this job description are intended to represent the key duties and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be ALL responsibilities or qualifications of the job.