Senior Sous Chef

• Senior Sous Chef
• Refined dining
• Manchester City Centre
• £54,000

Are you a Senior Sous Chef or experienced Sous Chef looking for the opportunity to join a young, ambitious restaurant group where you can genuinely put your own stamp on the food?

We are working with a growing restaurant group known for its refined, inventive approach to dining, where playful dishes, quality produce and creativity are at the heart of the menu.

The kitchen offers a mixture of small and large plates, with a particular focus on dry-aged meat, alongside seasonal produce and inventive flavour combinations. This is a high-quality, busy restaurant, so you will need to be comfortable maintaining consistently high standards while leading a kitchen team through a busy service.

As Senior Sous Chef, you will work closely with the Head Chef and play an important role in the continued development of the menu. There is genuine freedom to contribute ideas, develop dishes and help shape the food offering as the group continues to grow.

The Role

• Supporting the Head Chef with the day-to-day running of the kitchen.
• Taking a leading role during busy services and ensuring consistently high standards.
• Supporting menu development and contributing new ideas and dishes.
• Working with premium ingredients, including dry-aged meat.
• Helping to develop playful, inventive dishes across both small and large plates.
• Leading, motivating and developing the kitchen team.
• Maintaining excellent food quality, consistency and presentation.
• Managing kitchen standards, hygiene, stock and wastage.
• Working closely with the Head Chef to drive the restaurant forward.

About You

Ideally, you will have a strong background within premium, high-quality restaurants and have already gained experience at Senior Sous Chef or strong Sous Chef level.

You will be a chef who is passionate about food and enjoys being creative rather than simply following a set menu. Previous experience of supporting a Head Chef with menu development and creating new dishes is highly desirable.

You will also need to be:

• An accomplished chef with strong craft skills
• Creative, ambitious and passionate about food.
• Comfortable working in a high-volume restaurant.
• A confident leader who can motivate and develop a team.
• Commercially aware, with an understanding of margins, waste and kitchen costs.
• Calm and organised under pressure.
• Keen to develop and progress within a growing restaurant group.

Why Join?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a young and rapidly growing restaurant group with ambitious plans for the future. With the freedom to contribute creatively to the food offering and plenty of opportunity for career progression as the group expands, this is a role where your development can grow alongside the business.

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