Executive Sous Chef (Aspen, CO)

                                                                                      

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position Title: Executive Sous Chef

Location: Aspen, CO

Department: Culinary

FLSA Status: Exempt-Status

Reports To: Executive Chef

Update date: 1/4/2023

Pay Range: $85-$100k

Role Summary

Join our team as the Executive Sous Chef for Hotel Jerome, serving the needs of the business, our guests, and our colleagues by ensuring the best operations in the Culinary department.

Core Responsibilities

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of everything that needs to be done!  Within the Auberge family, our people always find new ways to look after the business, their guests, and their teammates.   Within this, the key responsibilities for this position are:

• Participate in the preparation and implementation of the hotel’s strategic plan. 

• Plan the yearly food revenue and profit target. 

• Support the definition of the hotel’s Food & Beverage concept 

• Manage menu development and pricing in line with the stated F&B objectives 

• Follow and esure departament is following the Culinary team policies, procedures and protocols handbook.

• Seek out and establish local, regional and national supplier relationships for the hotel. 

• Manage the preparation and presentation of food products to ensure the highest standards of quality at all times. Monitor and check guest satisfaction. 

• Ensure daily lineups are informative and motivational.

• Adhere to religious beliefs in the preparation and services of all food on-premises. 

• Adapt all food offerings to specific dietary preferences and requirements of our patrons as needed. 

• Ensure that the Kitchen brigade are aware of the hotel F&B strategy and that their products meet these requirements.

• Support Outlets and Events teams. 

• Ensure that the team is updated with current hotel occupancy and daily events.

• Direct and coordinate the daily activities of all the hotel’s kitchens and team 

• Coach and guide new members of the team, putting in place proper new hire orientation training and ongoing training and development for team members. 

• Liaise with T&C overall employee matters including recruitment and interviewing. 

• Ensure staffing levels are appropriate to the daily business levels.

• Control payroll and business expenses of the department. 

• Support and facilitate staff participation in competitions. 

• Support and release staff for Task Force Missions required to support the opening of new Auberge properties, and other special events catered by Auberge. 

• Maintain the highest standards of Food Hygiene and adherence to all Health and Safety standards. 

• Check and ensure the proper storage of raw and processed food items including the condition of food in freezers. 

• Ensure all work areas in the kitchen are kept tidy and clean. 

• Ensure we maintain a safe working environment. 

• Attend guest and official functions as a representative of the executive team. 

• Be a face for Auberge culinary expertise, creating powerful positive impressions. 

• Deliver and exceed the expectations of a sophisticated 21st-century luxury consumer.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays, according to department need.

• Able to compute basic mathematical calculations.  

• Ability to communicate in English with co-workers, guests, and management to their understanding.

• Ability to provide legible communication.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of kitchen leadership experience as Executive Sous or CDC of a highly acclaimed restaurant
• High school or Culinary Certificate or Degree by an accredited culinary agency preferred.
• Serve Safe Certification

Physical Demands

• Must have the ability to move/maneuver in a kitchen environment

Our Company & Our Property
Auberge Resorts Collection is a portfolio of extraordinary hotels, resorts, and residences. While each property is unique, all share a crafted approach to luxury and bring the soul of the locale to life through captivating design, exceptional cuisine, innovative spas, and gracious yet unobtrusive service. With 21 one-of-a-kind hotels and resorts, with 7 in the announced pipeline, Auberge invites guests to create unforgettable stories in some of the world’s most desirable destinations. Please visit aubergeresorts.com to learn more about our Collection. Follow us on Linked In, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @AubergeResorts and #AlwaysAuberge.

Our mission is to be the best-loved manager of one-of-a-kind luxury properties and experiences. Auberge is a family of intimate, one-of-kind hotels and resorts that define an approachable style of luxury in both product and service that resonates with the curious modern traveler. Passionately local, experience-led, romantic, and stylish, these hotels hum with a vibrancy that is both refined and relevant.

Hotel Jerome has been the social hub of Aspen since its opening in 1889 at the height of the town’s silver boom, known as the place where all great stories were born and are told. As the only Aspen hotel to survive the silver crash, the long pre-ski-resort winters, and the Depression, we’ve seen cowboys ride through our doors, 10th Mountain Division soldiers gather round over pints after training on the slopes, and Hunter S. Thompson holding court during his run for sheriff. You can’t experience Aspen, without experiencing Jerome.

What Else?
At Auberge, we are passionate about our mission to be the best-loved operator of one-of-a-kind luxury properties and experiences.  We are storytellers and story-makers, delivering simple pleasures, and creating unforgettable memories.  Born in Napa and inspired by the most relaxing places in the world, we prize simplicity, comfort, and beauty.  Whatever role we play in Auberge, and wherever we work, we all live by the view that our core purpose is to enrich people’s lives. 

If you feel that our approach is aligned with your own passions and beliefs, then please talk to us about becoming part of our family.

Hotel Jerome is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V. Hotel Jerome provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all team members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Hotel Jerome complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Department: Culinary
This is a management position