Executive Chef

About Raffles & Fairmont Doha

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Oversee culinary outlets, banquets, in-room dining, and events, ensuring consistent execution and guest experiences.
• Develop culinary concepts, menus, and experiences that strengthen market position and commercial performance.
• Manage kitchen organisation, productivity, costs, resources, food quality, presentation, hygiene, and safety.
• Lead and develop culinary teams; manage food cost, labour productivity, purchasing, inventory, and waste.
• Partner with hotel departments; monitor guest feedback, trends, and competitors; identify improvement and revenue opportunities.
• Champion sustainable sourcing, production, waste management, and kitchen operations.
• Maintain compliance with brand standards, local regulations, food safety requirements, and operating procedures.
• Contribute to strategic planning, budgets, forecasts, and long-term culinary growth.

Qualifications and experience

• Extensive senior culinary leadership experience in luxury hotels, resorts, or high-end hospitality.
• Experience leading complex, multi-outlet culinary operations, banqueting, events, and high-volume service.
• Financial management expertise in budgeting, forecasting, food cost, labour productivity, purchasing, and inventory.
• Strong knowledge of luxury culinary standards, food safety, hygiene, quality assurance, and compliance.
• A record of developing culinary concepts and leading diverse, high-performing teams.
• Relevant professional culinary qualification, or equivalent education, training, and demonstrated experience.

Additional capabilities

• Commercially minded creativity in menu development, culinary innovation, guest experience, and revenue generation.
• Understanding of culinary trends, sustainable practices, and luxury guest expectations.
• Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
• Able to work effectively in a dynamic, multicultural, fast-paced hospitality environment.

Application process

• Applicants will be asked to create an AssessFirst profile and complete a questionnaire as a mandatory step in the candidacy process.

Employee benefits

• Colleague perks include complimentary upgrades, extended stays, discounted stays, and dining and wellness discounts.