Closing date: 23rd December 2014

Lord’s Ground, the most famous cricket ground in the world, and owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (the Club), is renowned worldwide for staging international cricket matches with up to 28,500 spectators in attendance.

Lord’s is also an exceptional venue with a wealth of experience in delivering high quality hospitality, corporate and private events, hosted by our Catering, Hospitality and Meeting and Events team and supported by a casual workforce of up to 700 on a Major Match Day.

We are now recruiting a Head Pastry Chef to take overall responsibility for the production and delivery of the highest quality desserts, afternoon teas and other pastry products, driving a positive workplace culture to enhance the customer experience. Working closely with the Senior Kitchen Team on the design and delivery of exceptionally high quality food, this role will also focus on ensuring the financial control of food cost and forecasting of labour against the payroll budget.  Additional key duties include the training and development of the kitchen teams also working closely with other departments promote the Club in the local community.

The Head Pastry Chef will also assume responsibility for the day to day duties which includes the management of a small team, creating and managing the staff rotas, In addition, he or she will ensure the record-keeping for the Pastry team staff is compliant with internal policies, such as food safety, and current legislation.

Required skills and experience

With experience gained in a Senior Pastry Chef role in a challenging, deadline driven environment, the ideal candidate will have experience of high volume production at the highest standards, good management skills, food cost controls and labour cost management.

Robust communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are also essential, as he or she will be interacting with a diverse range of people, internally and externally with the aim of establishing long-lasting relationships.  In addition, the ideal candidate will be customer service focussed with a proven track record of leading, managing and developing staff as well as demonstrable experience of budgeting and financial planning.  Candidates will also hold a minimum Level 3 Food Safety certificate.

Strong IT skills are required along with the ability to prioritise and organise workloads and work to often tight deadline.  Significant flexibility is required and working extended hours, including weekends, as required.  An interest in cricket is helpful but is not a prerequisite.

Please click here to view the full job description for this role.

Values and behaviours

In line with the Club’s Values, you will also demonstrate:

• A positive and proactive approach to all elements of the role
• Responsibility for your own actions and outputs
• Demonstrate respect and courtesy to all MCC staff and visitors
• Promote teamwork by supporting others and sharing knowledge
• Deliver high quality work and service in a timely manner
• Skills and ability testing will form part of the selection process

Please submit your CV and a covering letter, stating salary expectations, for the attention of Amanda Forsey, Head of HR.