Workplace, Health & Education | Regional Role Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Lead Culinary Excellence Across Multiple Sites in the North
Are you an experienced chef leader looking for a role that offers variety, influence, and the opportunity to make a real impact?
Aramark UK is seeking a passionate and driven Regional Chef to provide culinary leadership across our Workplace, Health, and Education portfolio. This is a fantastic opportunity to combine your operational expertise, coaching skills, and culinary talent while supporting multiple sites within your designated region.
As a Regional Chef, you'll play a vital role in ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality, nutritious, and customer-focused food services. From supporting mobilisations and driving service improvements to developing kitchen teams and maintaining exceptional culinary standards, you'll be at the forefront of operational excellence across the region.
If you're a natural leader who enjoys working across diverse environments, developing people, and elevating food standards, we'd love to hear from you.
What you’ll do:
As our Regional Chef, you'll:
- Provide culinary leadership across a portfolio of Workplace, Health, and Education sites.
- Support sites with operational challenges, chef shortages, mobilisations, and service improvement initiatives.
- Coach, mentor, and develop chefs and kitchen teams, helping them achieve consistently high standards.
- Support menu development, recipe standardisation, allergen management, and nutritional requirements.
- Drive excellence in food quality, presentation, service delivery, and customer satisfaction.
- Conduct site visits, audits, and quality reviews, identifying opportunities to improve performance.
- Ensure full compliance with food safety, hygiene, HACCP, allergen, and health and safety requirements.
- Support effective stock management, food cost control, purchasing compliance, and waste reduction.
- Build strong relationships with operational leaders, clients, and site teams.
- Contribute to new contract mobilisations, projects, and business improvement activities across the region.
What we're looking for:
We're looking for an experienced culinary professional who can inspire teams and deliver exceptional results.
You'll have:
- Proven experience as a Head Chef, Lead Chef, Executive Chef, Regional Chef, or similar senior culinary position.
- Experience operating within contract catering, education, healthcare, business & industry, or a multi-site environment.
- Strong leadership and coaching abilities with a passion for developing people.
- Excellent culinary knowledge and a commitment to delivering high-quality, nutritious food.
- A thorough understanding of food safety, hygiene, allergen management, HACCP, and compliance requirements.
- Strong commercial awareness, including food costs, labour management, stock control, and waste reduction.
- Experience conducting audits, identifying opportunities for improvement, and implementing best practices.
- The ability to adapt quickly and confidently across multiple locations and operational environments.
- Effective communication and relationship-building skills.
- A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel regularly throughout your region.
