Jobs at Minor Hotels

Job Description

NH Sandton Johannesburg is looking for an experienced and passionate Executive Chef to oversee the kitchen operations. This integral position will be responsible for all aspects of running the busy and high preforming kitchen, as well as leading and guiding the culinary team

This role will involve:

• Supervising kitchen team members, ensuring excellence and consistency in the product delivered to customers.
• Development of new menus and associated costing.
• Running stock control and managing all BOH food and wage costs.
• Enforcing daily and weekly systems and procedures to ensure a high level of presentation, hygiene, service, and product quality.
• Ensuring compliance with all health and safety regulations and food standards.
• Recruiting, inducting, training and rostering of BOH team members

Qualifications

You will have:

• 3 + years experience working as an Executive Chef
• Formal culinary qualification
• Ability to manage a busy kitchen, with a high level of consistency and creativity
• Strong staff management experience, with the ability to lead, develop and motivate a high preforming team
• Extensive knowledge of OHS/HACCP within a kitchen environment
• Ability to work well in a high pressure, fast paced environment
• Be flexible to work a range of different shifts, including weekends
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

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Job Description

As Revenue Manager you will set and effectively communicate the hotels pricing strategies by market segment with reference to market intelligence, buying patterns and pre-determined seasonality. Further you will actively participate in the production of the hotels annual budget and assist in the creation, update and evaluation of the hotels sales and marketing plans. You will be responsible for ensuring available technology (PMS & RMS) is fully utilized and understood according to the property specific business mix and requirements and to ensure optimal use. You will then measure performance on all distribution channels, to ensure that fair market share is well achieved. Key areas of responsibility include:

• To prepare weekly accurate 3 months forecast for hotel rooms revenue by Market Segment.
• To prepare monthly accurate rolling 12 months forecast for hotel rooms revenue by Market Segment.
• To set and effectively communicate the hotel pricing strategy by market segment with reference to market intelligence, buying patterns and pre-determined seasonality.
• To prepare and chair a weekly Revenue Meeting. 
• Collate and distribute meeting minutes of notes on forecast and strategy changes, including weekly action plan.
• Set monthly targets of upselling revenue for front office and reservations department.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in hotel management or finance.
• 2 years revenue and yield experience in the hospitality industry
• Familiar with the hotel operations, available technology (PMS & RMS) and all distribution channels.
• Understand the dynamics of regional & local markets, as well as local competitors and events.