We have an exciting opportunity within our Premium Division to join our Culinary Education Team as a Kitchen Skills Trainer. Within our Premium Division, we have three great brands - Vintage Inns, one of Mitchells & Butlers’ heritage brands that has everything our guests desire from a country pub! Miller & Carter – the great steak experts and Premium Country Pubs, a collection of premium pubs, bars, restaurants set in traditional buildings with stylish refurbs with a premium food and drink offering!

Our much-loved pubs, bars and restaurants stretch across the UK; therefore, we can be flexible with your location. As a Kitchen Skills Trainer, you will play a key part in the development of kitchen capability within our businesses. So if you’re looking to combine your love of food and drink, with your passion for training then look no further – we’ve got the perfect position for you!

What’s in it for me?

· A Company Car

· Love eating out? You'll love it even more with a massive 33% discount across all our brands, so whether its date night at Miller & Carter or family roast at Toby Carvery we’ve got you covered

· Mobile working – the flexibility to work from home, the office or one of our sites

· Annual Bonus Scheme – We’re all about rewarding the hard work everybody puts in

· Buy up to an extra 2 weeks’ holiday – life is for living after all! 

On top of all this, we offer; a pension, 26 days paid holiday, high-street shopping discounts; and we even give you free shares! There's also a free employee helpline- to support you with whatever life throws at you.

What will I be doing?

· Championing the development of food skills and food knowledge

· Delivering high impact culinary training that drives customer food quality satisfaction

· Planning, delivering, and reviewing innovative menu implementation training that ensures colleagues in operations have the knowledge to flawlessly execute the menu

· Supporting the development of apprentices through structured mentoring and assessment activity

· Training, mentoring, and reviewing the capability and effectiveness of the Accredited Kitchen Manager, Potential Accredited Kitchen Manager and Head Chef populations

· Completing tactical, brand aligned food quality activity to help raise the quality of food served

· Provide support and guidance to our pipeline of High Potential Kitchen Team Leaders

· Supporting the induction of newly appointed Kitchen Managers

· Contributing to the divisional manpower plans, ensuring talent information about frontline employees is captured in a timely and accurate manner

· Supporting aligned division in bespoke kitchen and food related training activity

What do I need?

Just like our brands, our teams are diverse. You’ll need...  

· Experience in delivering a variety of training interventions

· Experience of delivering culinary focused training programmes to management and leadership teams

· Experience of managing the requirements and expectations of a wide population of stakeholders

· Outstanding facilitation skills with excellent verbal and written communication skills

· Self-starter who understands the need to balance focus and flexibility

· Experience in delivering high impact group training

· Experience in operating within a large matrix organisation

Closing date: Midnight, 19th October 2021

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