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About the Role
The Regional Head Chef role is to plan, facilitate, and implement world-class culinary offerings that deliver a premium experience on match and non-match days across the London region and other future venues. This role offers the opportunity to unleash creativity, explore new culinary concepts, and build innovative partnerships that contribute to the long-term vision and strategic growth of the culinary department.
Responsibilities
- Lead, motivate, and develop the culinary team to deliver exceptional food quality, service standards, and full compliance with health, safety, food hygiene, allergen, and HACCP requirements.
- Oversee day-to-day culinary operations, ensuring service delivery, labour deployment, and departmental rotas align with business needs, budgets, and commercial targets.
- Develop and cost menus within agreed timescales, monitor food controls and stock management, minimize waste, and identify efficiencies to improve profitability and operational performance.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, assess market trends, and identify new commercial opportunities, products, and innovations that enhance the business.
- Manage purchasing, ordering, stock takes, and inventory controls, ensuring accurate records, compliance documentation, and month-end reporting requirements are completed.
- Support recruitment, training, performance management, and ongoing development across the culinary and wider matchday teams, creating a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
- Communicate effectively with clients, supporters, and internal stakeholders, respond proactively to changing requirements, attend business planning meetings, and ensure kitchens and kiosks remain match-ready through regular inspections and hygiene checks.
Requirements
- Qualified chef with relevant culinary qualifications or equivalent experience.
- Advanced Food Safety & Hygiene, Allergen Management, and HACCP certification.
- Experienced in leading high-volume, fast-paced hospitality operations, ideally within fine dining, stadia, arenas, events, or premium restaurant environments.
- Commercially minded with strong operational, financial, and project management skills.
- Capable of planning effectively, meeting tight deadlines, and delivering against budgetary targets.
- Proven leader with a track record of building high-performing teams through coaching, engagement, training, and succession planning.
- Highly organised and detail-oriented.
- Experience managing food controls, stock, compliance processes, supplier relationships, and operational administration.
- Proactive problem-solver with excellent communication skills.
- Able to respond quickly to changing business demands while maintaining high standards.
- Flexible and adaptable, willing to work evenings, weekends, and event days as required in a non-traditional hospitality operation.
Skills
- Culinary qualifications
- Advanced Food Safety & Hygiene
- Allergen Management
- HACCP certification
- Leadership
- Team motivation
- Food quality standards
- Service standards
- Health and safety compliance
- Food hygiene compliance
- Allergen compliance
- HACCP compliance
- Operational oversight
- Labour deployment
- Menu development
- Cost control
- Stock management
- Waste minimization
- Profitability improvement
- Supplier relationship management
- Market trend assessment
- Purchasing
- Ordering
- Stock taking
- Inventory control
- Record keeping
- Compliance documentation
- Reporting
- Recruitment support
- Training
- Performance management
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Adaptability
Location
- London region
Work Type
- Full-time
- Event days
Experience Level
- Experienced leader
- Senior level
Education Level
- Relevant culinary qualifications
- Advanced Food Safety & Hygiene certification
- Allergen Management certification
- HACCP certification
Benefits
- 25 Days Annual Leave
- Life Assurance
- 5% Pension Contribution
- Healthshield Cover
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye Care Support
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Referral Scheme
About the Company
- Legends Global is committed to leading the entertainment industry towards a greener, faster, and more innovative digital future.
- We aim to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers.
- Join us and make a significant impact from day one.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to active inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunities.
- This commitment begins with our recruitment and selection process.
- We welcome discussions about flexible working arrangements.
- If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of our recruitment process, please let us know in your application.
- We are dedicated to providing a fair and transparent assessment process and will do our utmost to accommodate your needs.