Executive Head Chef

Executive Head Chef

Location: Knutsford, WA16 9EU

Hours of work: 40

Contract Type: Permanent

We’re looking for an Executive Head Chef to take a leading role in delivering an exceptional culinary experience across the Campus.

Reporting to the Food Experience Lead, you’ll oversee the craft team day-to-day, ensuring the highest standards of food quality, safety, and presentation.

This is a rare opportunity to join one of ISS’s flagship accounts in a truly unique role.

Job Description

With a hands-on approach and a creative mindset, you’ll inspire your team to deliver excellence, shape trend-setting food moments, and play a key role in high-profile events.

You’ll also support the delivery of the Campus food strategy, champion a ‘One Team’ culture, and ensure compliance with health, safety, and financial standards.

Passionate about food and innovation, you’ll bring energy, leadership, and vision to create memorable experiences that go beyond expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver consistently high-quality food and drink experiences that align with brand standards and create a lasting positive impression.
• Maintain a safe, compliant kitchen environment by upholding health, safety, and food standards, ensuring audit readiness at all times.
• Lead and inspire a motivated team through effective training, recognition, and clear communication to drive service excellence and wellbeing.
• Control labour, stock, and production costs by managing schedules, adhering to recipes, and applying financial procedures to meet business targets.
• Collaborate with internal teams to design and deliver innovative, trend-focused campus events and experiences that exceed customer expectations.

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

• Experience in contract catering preferred, though strong chefs with solid administrative skills will be considered.
• Minimum SCQF Level 8 (or equivalent) cookery qualification.
• Proven leadership skills with strengths in kitchen operations, service excellence, delivering vision, and engaging teams.
• Experience in a similar role within large-scale, high-end catering and/or fast casual food service outlets.
• IT literate with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Innovative, proactive, and confident in taking a lead role within a dynamic team.
• Strong problem-solving ability with a track record of resolving challenges and exceeding client expectations.

The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing [email protected]