Executive Pastry Chef

Join us as an Executive Pastry Chefat The Dorchester recognised as one of The SundayTimes Top 10 Best Places to Work for in 2024 & 2025 and Hotel of the year London at the 2024 AA Hospitality Awards. We continually strive to build andnurture a culture where inclusiveness is part of our DNA reflected in ourvalues of passion personality respect working together and creativity. Webelieve that a variety of perspectives enriches our culture and drives oursuccess.

We care about your career and are known for having the absolute bestpeople in the industry. When you join us as an Executive Pastry Chefyou start aunique opportunity to become celebrated as the very best in your field. Youlllearn not only from your fellow Legends but also through our award-winninglearning academy so that you can achieve the highest standards of craftservice and leadership and become a legend in your own story.

About the Role

OurExecutive Pastry Chef is the creative artist of our hotel! Entrusted withcaring for every detail in our pastry and bakery production. Though skillfullytrained they never lose sight of their ultimate reasonability to createlifelong memories for our guests.

What youll do

Your responsibilities willinclude:

A day in the life of our Executive Pastry Chef demands high levels ofenergy creativity and passion. They need consistency even though the days arenever alike; and creativity to tackle daily adventures. Our pastry and bakeryoffers a playground for seriously creative production to impress the peoplethat make the world turn. Listing all of the contributions that our ExecutivePastry Chef accomplish would be lengthy but the list below is essential toknow.

• Our Executive Pastry Chef is responsible for managing pastry and bakery kitchens in order to deliver the best experience across our culinary offerings at The Dorchester.

• Team leadership: Lead train and motivate a high performing Pastry team that understands their role in delivering the very best culinary experience and refined attention to detail. Foster a positive collaborative and respectful culture that brings the best out of people.

• The ideal candidate is someone that enjoys delivering joy to our guests through precision and execution in everything that is produced in house. Our guest experience is something that we strive to exceed in everything that we cook serve and create. You will be responsible for leading the creativity including one of a kind masterpieces at Cake and flowers the artistry of our afternoon tea show stopping amenities in our suites and much more.
• Sometimes our guests have special requests involving dietary requirements bespoke products and even special occasions. Most of these requests are fulfilled by our Executive Pastry Chef and the brigade.
• Our values of Personality Passion Respect Working Together and Creativity guide us each and every day. The purpose of Executive Pastry Chef is to live their behaviours to continue to create our legacy.
• Communication is what keeps our departments running perfectly. Our Executive Pastry Chef must communicate with other departments and extended hotel team in order to ensure the alignment remains.

What youll bring

• Previous experience as an Executive Pastry chef in a similar environment.
• All of our employees are ambassadors of our Vision Values and culture.
• We encourage the unique personalities and passions of our employees working together; as a team a hotel and Collection.
• Our guests forge our legacy. Knowing and understanding them is our goal valuing kindness over process.
• In a fast-moving world we remain consistent and relevant requiring flexibility from everyone on the team.
• Strong communication skills English is the primary language used at The Dorchester

What youll get

Complimentary Stays: Enjoy complimentary stays withbreakfast at Dorchester Collection Hotels every year.

Discounts: Get 50% off food and beveragesat selected bars and restaurants within the Dorchester Collection: EnjoyFriends & Family stay discounts out hotels Benefit from discounts atvarious high street and online shops

Employee Perks: Enroll from day 1 into ourPrivate Pension scheme (we contribute 8% towards your pension); Benefit fromSeasonal ticket loan Rental deposit scheme private financial advice and Eyecare vouchers.

Training and Development: Advance in your career byaccessing various apprenticeships from Level 2 to Hospitality Degree Level partner with outstanding nationally recognised Apprenticeship providers.

SocialEvents: Participate in vibrant social events including asummer party winter ball pub quizzes and cultural and milestone recognitioncelebrations.

Referral Bonus

Well-being Support: Access immediate well-beingadvice because we care about our employees.

We celebrate diversity and are committed tocreating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. If you needus to do anything to support you during the recruitment process (such asadjustments to how you applyalternative formats of information or adjustments to the assessment processitself) please do call People & Culture team on or email so that wecan discuss how we can support you through this process.