Job Description
About usAt voco®, we’ve created a hotel brand that gives people a different choice. Hotels to count on but different enough to be fun. Unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. Our family of hotels are connected by their own sense of style and individual character and that’s something we make the most of. Finding the perfect mix of reliability and new experiences. Because we believe that when you respect individuality life gets interesting. At the heart of every great stay is a great host. We think the trick to hosting is to take the time to understand what your guests need, and want. So before they arrive, we find out more about them and how we can make their stay better. Whilst they are with us we give tempting recommendations of our favourite drinks or food, or tips for local experiences that they won’t find in any guide book.Your day to dayThe Chef de Partie is responsible for running a specific Arabic section of the kitchen, ensuring high-quality food preparation and presentation. They play a key role in supporting the Sous Chef and Head Chef while mentoring kitchen staff. This position requires culinary expertise, organizational skills, and a commitment to maintaining kitchen standards.Every day is different, but you’ll mostly be: Prepare food items according to guest orders with consistent quality, following recipes, portioning, and presentation standards. Complete mise en place and set up stations for breakfast, lunch, and dinner service. Start pre-prepared food items, ensuring they are prepared to estimated needs and not overproduced. Train, motivate, and supervise kitchen employees, ensuring all cultural and core standards are met. Provide regular feedback and recommend disciplinary actions when necessary. Have excellent knowledge of menu creation, maintaining high quality while controlling costs in a high-volume food business Collaborate on plans to address food cost issues, control waste, and optimize resource usage. Operate and maintain kitchen equipment, including fryers, broilers, ovens, food processors, mixers, and more. Ensure all equipment is properly cleaned and maintained to extend its lifecycle. Ensure HACCP standards are met and monitored regularly. Personally maintain high levels of hygiene, safety, and proper equipment use. Date and rotate food containers following company policies, ensuring perishables are stored at proper temperatures. Check daily pars, prepare freezer pulls, and set up lines for service. Document any out-of-stock items, shortages, or excesses and return unused items to designated storage areas. Address issues as they arise, collecting and reporting feedback daily. Assist in setting up corrective actions for any identified operational challenges. Work independently and support others in achieving shared deadlines and culinary goals.What We need from you: Proven experience as a Chef de Partie in Arabic Specialty or similar role. Strong culinary knowledge and hands-on experience with various kitchen equipment. Ability to lead and motivate a team while ensuring quality and efficiency. Knowledge of HACCP standards and food safety regulations. Excellent organizational and multitasking abilities. Strong attention to detail and commitment to high standards. Problem-solving mindset with the ability to work under pressure. How do I deliver this?We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all IHG® hotels.Each IHG® hotel brand delivers True Hospitality in their own way, and at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills. True Attitude: being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building genuine connections with guests True Confidence: having the knowledge and skills to perform your role, and giving guests the confidence that they can trust you, to help and support them during their stay True Listening: focusing on what your guest is saying, picking up on body language that is often overlooked, and understanding what the guest wants and needs True Responsiveness: is about providing guests with what they need, and doing so in a timely and caring mannerThere’s so much more to the job than we can capture here. It’s simply about creating great experiences, doing the right thing and understanding people. What we offerWe’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – in addition to career development, employee room discounts and great work culture. Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve -visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us. Reliably Different - Welcome to voco® Hotels, IHG’s new upscale brand. We call our Hotels voco® – It means ‘to invite’ and ‘call together’ originating from Latin and representing our thoughtful, unstuffy and charming nature. Guests tell us that voco® is fun without being vanilla, trendy without being alienating and premium, without being stuffy. This unique and playful attitude, combined with a consistent level of quality, sits at the heart of our brand here at voco® Dubai Whatever we’re up to, at every instance, there are brand values and service behaviours that guide us... Brand values: Always dependable, Respect individuality & Be distinctive. Service values: Count on us to; Be natural & Make every stay special. Drawing on IHG’s years of experience in delivering True Hospitality, voco® Hotels gives people a different choice. Hotels that are reliable enough to depend on, but different enough to be fun. Our new family of hotels is connected by their individual characters, that make memorable travel dependable with unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. The moment a guest steps into one of our hotels, they walk into a genuinely memorable experience.
