Sous-Chef de cuisine - 100% (m/f/d)
Compass Group (Suisse) S.A.
Plan-les-Ouates
Key information
- Publication date:17 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Plan-les-Ouates
Job summary
Join our dynamic culinary team at Compass Group PLC! Exciting opportunity awaits you in a vibrant kitchen environment.
Tasks
- Lead kitchen operations and inspire your team alongside the Chef.
- Create diverse, refined dishes for nearly 1000 guests per service.
- Manage administrative tasks including orders, reception, costs, and stocks.
Skills
- Minimum 5 years experience as a sous-chef in high-end cuisine.
- Strong organizational skills and cost management expertise.
- Passion for culinary arts with excellent leadership abilities.
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Your responsibilities
- Manage the smooth running of kitchen operations and inspire your team alongside the Head Chef.
- Contribute to a varied and refined culinary offer, served to nearly 1000 diners per service.
- Accurately handle administrative aspects: orders, reception, costs, and stocks.
- Act as interim Head Chef in their absence and maintain our uncompromising standards of excellence.
- Ensure compliance with HACCP standards and kitchen safety.
- Enjoy continuous hours, Monday to Friday, from 6:00 am to 3:00 pm, combining passion and work-life balance.
Your profile
- Proven experience in gourmet or starred cuisine: minimum 5 years as sous-chef in a large brigade.
- Management and organizational skills: mastery of business management processes, including cost calculation.
- Leadership and culinary excellence: passion for culinary art, attention to detail, excellence, and ability to lead a team.
- Mandatory catering training: recognized diploma in the culinary field.
Your benefits
- Various development and career opportunities, including positions abroad
- Modern internal employee training and development program
- Support for an external training program
- Family-friendly and regulated working hours* (Monday to Friday, no work on weekends/evenings)
- Part-time work possibilities at all levels
- 16 weeks maternity leave / 2 weeks paternity leave (additional mandatory remuneration level)
- Option to purchase additional vacation with generous employer contribution
- Possibility of teleworking and free parking for employees of our service center
- Friendly Workspace certified since 2015 systematic health management in the company
- Extra-mandatory accident coverage
Your application
If you have any questions about the recruitment process, Amélie Gambette, HR Business Partner, will be happy to answer you.
Who are we?
We operate industry-specialized brands, Eurest, Scolarest, Medirest, Eurest Services, Rapport Guest Services, Compass Consulting, and Compass Catering, active in corporate catering, event catering, as well as reception and hospitality services. As a member of Compass Group PLC, the world leader in catering services with more than 580,000 employees across about 30 countries, we skillfully combine international expertise and local roots and bring people together around our passion for contemporary cuisine and exceptional hospitality.
Our recruitment process
Once we have received your online application, we will read it with interest, carefully review it, and proceed with a pre-selection among the received applications. Afterwards, we will contact you and inform you of the outcome of your application.
The stages of the personal meeting process resemble a four-course menu:
