# Executive Chef

SUMMARY: - POSITION INFO: A prestigious five-star luxury hotel is seeking an experienced, creative and commercially driven Executive Chef to lead its culinary operations. The successful candidate will be responsible for the overall culinary direction, operational performance and profitability of the hotel's kitchen operations. The ideal candidate will provide strategic and hands-on leadership across restaurant operations, private dining, special dining experiences, breakfast and banqueting, ensuring consistently high standards of food quality, presentation, creativity and guest satisfaction. Key Responsibilities Provide overall culinary leadership and direction across all kitchen operations Lead, train, develop and motivate Sous Chefs, supervisors and culinary teams Develop innovative, creative and commercially viable menus Manage menu engineering and ensure accurate food costing Take ownership of food-cost performance, portion control, purchasing, stock variances and wastage Work closely with the Purchasing department to ensure quality products and value for money Maintain consistently high standards of food quality, presentation, portioning and service Ensure compliance wi

- **Id**: 3850973
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/placement-services-recruitment-executive-chef-2>
- **Role**: Hospitality
- **Role family**: Hospitality
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sandton, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-22T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-22T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 23
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3831
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4497317
- **Name**: Placement Services Recruitment
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/placement-services-recruitment>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Outlook** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 23

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T03:03:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.85
- **P active**: 0.463
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 23
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: seen:23, agency, win:tail, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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