Marriott Vacations Worldwide

Sous Chef

Marriott Vacations Worldwide • $84K — $90K *
Lahaina, HI 96761In-Person
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or GED; 4 years culinary experience, or 2-year culinary degree with 2 years experience.
  • Valid driver’s license with a clean driving history may be required.
  • Strong knowledge of food safety and sanitation standards.
  • Proven leadership and team development skills in a kitchen environment.
  • Ability to curate and present creative food ideas and displays.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise daily kitchen operations, ensuring compliance with policies.
  • Estimate and communicate daily food production needs to kitchen staff.
  • Prepare and cook food, addressing special guest requests as needed.
  • Develop new culinary applications and collaborate on creative presentations.
  • Maintain purchasing, receiving, and food storage standards compliant with regulations.
  • Lead and mentor culinary staff to optimize their performance and productivity.
  • Manage guest interactions to resolve complaints and enhance customer satisfaction.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance available.
Full Job Description
Salary Range: $84,000 - $90,000

Relocation Assistance Available

JOB SUMMARY

Supervises, directs and develops all kitchen/culinary staff to ensure consistent, high quality products are produced. Ensures overall success of daily kitchen operations. Exhibits culinary talents by personally performing tasks while leading the staff and managing all food related functions including food production, purchasing and sanitation. Focuses to continually improve guest and associate satisfaction while maintaining the operating budget. Ensures food safety and sanitation standards are in place and compliant.

Valid driver's license may be required with at least one year of clean driving history.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience
  • High school diploma or GED; 4 years experience in the culinary, food and beverage, or related professional area.

OR
  • 2-year degree from an accredited university in Culinary Arts, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; 2 years experience in the culinary, food and beverage, or related professional area.


CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Ensuring Culinary Standards and Responsibilities are Met
  • Manages kitchen shift operations and ensures compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, standards and procedures.
  • Estimates daily production needs on a weekly basis and communicates production needs to kitchen personnel daily.
  • Assists with all kitchen operations and preparation.
  • Prepares and cooks foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests or functions.
  • Develops, designs, or creates new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
  • Assists in determining how food should be presented and creates decorative food displays.
  • Maintains purchasing, receiving and food storage standards.
  • Ensures compliance with food handling and sanitation standards.
  • Performs all duties of kitchen managers and associates as necessary.
  • Recognizes superior quality products, presentations and flavor.
  • Ensures compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
  • Follows proper handling of all food products.
  • Operates and maintains all department equipment and reports malfunctions.
  • Checks the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure standards are met.


Leading Kitchen Operations
  • Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks and staff engaged in food preparation.
  • Leads shifts while personally preparing food items and executing requests based on required specifications.
  • Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
  • Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
  • Serves as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors.
  • Maintains the productivity level of associates.
  • Ensures associates understand expectations and parameters.
  • Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with associates and ensures associates do the same within the team.
  • Ensures policies are administered fairly and consistently.
  • Communicates performance expectations in accordance with job descriptions for each position.
  • Recognizes success performance and produces desired results.


Ensuring Exceptional Customer Service
  • Provides services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.
  • Manages day-to-day operations, ensuring the quality, standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis.
  • Sets a positive example for guest relations.
  • Empowers associates to provide excellent customer service.
  • Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels.
  • Handles guest problems and complaints.


Maintaining Culinary Goals
  • Achieves and exceeds goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.
  • Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
  • Utilizes the Labor Management System to effectively schedule to business demands and for tracking of associate time and attendance.
  • Trains associates in safety procedures.


Conducting Human Resources Activities
  • Participates in interviewing and hiring of team members with the appropriate skills.
  • Uses all available on the job training tools to train new associates and provide follow-up training as necessary.
  • Communicates performance expectations in accordance with job descriptions for each position.
  • Conducts a departmental orientation program for associates to receive the appropriate new hire training to successfully perform their job.
  • Ensures associates understand Company, Resort and Departmental expectations and parameters.
  • Ensures associates are cross-trained to support successful daily operations.
  • Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with associates and ensures associates do the same with them.
  • Schedules associates to business demands and tracks associate time and attendance.
  • Ensures property policies are administered fairly and consistently, disciplinary procedures and documentation are completed according to policy.
  • Observes service behaviors of associates and provides feedback to individuals.
  • Ensures associate recognition is taking place on all shifts.
  • Solicits associate feedback, utilizes an "open door" policy, and reviews associate satisfaction results to identify and address associate problems or concerns.
  • Participates in associate progressive discipline procedures.
  • Reviews associate satisfaction results.


Additional Responsibilities
  • Provides information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
  • Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
  • Attends and participates in all pertinent meetings.


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About Marriott Vacations Worldwide

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation develops, markets, sells, and manages vacation ownership and related products under the Marriott Vacation Club, Grand Residences by Marriott, Sheraton, Westin, Hyatt Residence Club, and Marriott Vacation Club Pulse brands. The company also develops, markets, and sells vacation ownership and related products under The Ritz-Carlton Destination Club brand; and holds right to develop, market, and sell ownership residential products under The Ritz-Carlton Residences brand. As of December 31, 2020, it operated approximately 120 resorts and approximately 700,000 owners in a range of vacation experiences in approximately 100 countries and territories. The company was formerly known as Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation and changed its name to Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation in April 2011. Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.
Learn more about Marriott Vacations Worldwide
Size
20,300 employees
Market Cap
$5 billion
Industry
Business Services
Net Income
-$275 million
5 Year Trend
+14.2%
Revenue
$2.8 billion
NASDAQ
VAC
* Ladders Estimates

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