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About the Role
Four Seasons Hotel London at Tower Bridge is seeking an exceptional Executive Pastry Chef to lead its pastry operation. This role offers a creative and inspiring culinary leader the chance to shape the pastry vision of a prestigious luxury hotel, develop a high-performing team, and deliver excellence across multiple outlets.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the pastry team, creating a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Set the strategic direction and vision for all pastry operations across the hotel
- Design and oversee dessert, afternoon tea, amenity, and seasonal menus
- Maintain exceptional standards of quality, consistency, and presentation across all pastry offerings
- Work closely with restaurant, banqueting, and Food and Beverage teams to deliver memorable guest experiences
- Identify opportunities for innovation and continuously evolve the pastry offering in line with market trends and guest expectations
- Manage labour, food cost, purchasing, and inventory to achieve departmental financial goals
- Ensure compliance with all food safety, hygiene, and HACCP standards
- Develop talent and succession plans within the pastry team
- Support hotel events, special occasions, and high profile VIP experiences
Requirements
- Previous experience as an Executive Pastry Chef or a Senior Pastry Chef leadership role within a luxury hotel, fine dining, or high profile hospitality environment
- Strong leadership and people development skills
- Exceptional pastry technique and creativity
- Experience overseeing multiple pastry outlets and service styles
- Strong understanding of financial management, food costs, labour management, and operational planning
- Passion for innovation, quality, and guest experience
- Excellent organisational and communication skills
- Ability to perform effectively within a fast paced luxury environment
- Positive, collaborative, and inspirational leadership style
- Right to Work in the UK
Skills
- Pastry technique
- Creativity
- Leadership
- People development
- Financial management
- Food cost management
- Labour management
- Operational planning
- Innovation
- Quality control
- Guest experience enhancement
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- Executive
- Senior leadership
Benefits
- Excellent training and clearly defined career development pathways
- Strong internal progression opportunities across London and the global Four Seasons portfolio
- Holiday entitlement increasing with service up to 33 days
- Up to two paid Wellness Days per year
- Company Sick Pay, increasing with service
- Life insurance while on duty
- Up to 20 complimentary nights at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts worldwide, increasing with service, as well as heavily discounted rates at all properties
- 50% discount across UK Four Seasons food and beverage outlets from day one for up to four guests
- Complimentary meals while on duty in Pepys Cellar, our staff cafeteria, with refreshments available throughout the day
- Discounted gym membership with City's Leonardo Hotel
- Bupa Dental Cover and MediCash healthcare plans available
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Uniform with complimentary professional dry cleaning from day one
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme available from day one
- Access to Wagestream for greater pay flexibility and discounts
- Employee recognition programmes including monthly awards and events
- Annual themed team events plus regular social, charitable and sporting activities
About the Company
- Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return.
- Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart.
- We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.
- At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves.
- Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime.
- It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.