Executive Pastry Chef - Kuwait

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead daily pastry and bakery operations across assigned outlets or concepts; create and enhance dessert menus, cakes, pastries, breads, chocolates, and seasonal specials.
• Ensure company standards and consistency in taste, quality, portioning, decoration, and presentation; supervise, train, and motivate the team.
• Oversee production planning, mise en place, storage, stock rotation, and service readiness; support bulk production for events, catering, displays, and high-volume operations.
• Monitor food cost, inventory, ordering, wastage, and portion control; maintain hygiene, food safety, cleanliness, and HACCP standards.
• Introduce creative pastry concepts while maintaining practical and efficient operations; coordinate with culinary, service, purchasing, stewarding, and management.
• Maintain pastry equipment and work areas; support operational improvements and consistency across production areas.

Requirements

• Previous experience as an Executive Pastry Chef, Head Pastry Chef, Pastry Chef, or similar senior pastry leader; strong experience in hospitality or high-volume F&B operations.
• Solid knowledge of pastry, bakery, desserts, cakes, chocolates, plated desserts, and production planning.
• Bulk production and multi-outlet pastry support experience is advantageous.
• Strong leadership, team-management, and training skills; understanding of food cost, inventory, portion control, and wastage reduction.
• Excellent food safety, hygiene, and kitchen compliance knowledge; creative, organized, detail-oriented, and quality-focused.
• Able to work under pressure in a fast-paced hospitality environment; professional communication and problem-solving skills.
• International hospitality or multi-outlet experience is advantageous.
• Willingness to relocate to Kuwait.

Benefits

• Package includes transportation, medical insurance, paid annual leave, airfare or flight benefits, employment visa or work permit support, and relocation support according to employer policy and employment terms.
• Other package benefits are unspecified; the role offers an opportunity to work with a large hospitality group in Kuwait.