Executive Chef (d/f/m)
Basel
Key information
- Publication date:19 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Basel
Job summary
Join the SV Group, a leading gastronomic company in Switzerland! Exciting opportunities await in a dynamic kitchen setting.
Tasks
- Oversee culinary operations across the campus's dining units.
- Create and implement diverse meal plans for various dining concepts.
- Lead a motivated team, ensuring high-quality food standards.
Skills
- Culinary training with chef certification and 5+ years experience required.
- Strong leadership and organizational skills essential.
- Excellent communication and business acumen necessary.
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Do you love making a big impact – in the kitchen and in the team?
Then bring your passion and leadership skills to us! We are looking for a personality with taste, vision, and organizational talent – for a kitchen that inspires every day.
You with us. A recipe for success.
- Overall culinary responsibility for all gastronomic units on campus
- Development and implementation of creative, varied, and economical menus for different concepts (from self-service to à la carte, including catering)
- Ensuring high quality standards in production, presentation, and taste
- Leading, motivating, and developing a kitchen team across multiple outlets including patisserie
- Proactive participation in the development of new gastronomic concepts and special promotions
- Involvement in events and special occasions on campus
- Completed training as a cook with EFZ certification and further training as a head chef or equivalent qualification
- At least 5 years of experience in a similar position as well as leadership experience
- Strong business thinking and acting
- Excellent IT skills and flawless German language skills, both spoken and written
- Strong communication skills, assertiveness, and team orientation
- Passion for the cooking profession as well as organizational talent with a high sense of responsibility
- Feasting: Free, fresh, and healthy employee meals
- Discounts: Employee rates at SV-managed hotels and discounted meals in our restaurants
- Flexibility: Part-time work and job sharing possible, depending on the operation no hourly shifts
- Workwear: We provide and clean employees' work clothing
- Compensation: Market-based salary and 13th-month pay
- Family-friendly: 5 weeks of vacation, possibility to purchase additional vacation, 16 weeks maternity leave
- Bonuses and vouchers: Employee referral program, gifts for anniversaries and birthdays
- Development: SV Academy with nearly 300 trainings, courses, further education opportunities, and e-learnings
- Additional benefits: Various discounts (e.g., at Sunrise, Reka, Migrol, Fleurop, collective insurance CSS/Helsana)
Paula, Recruiter
The SV Group is a leading gastronomy and hotel management group based in Dübendorf near Zurich. The group operates in several business areas: restaurants for companies and schools, hotels with own brands as well as other renowned brands as franchisee, public restaurants with innovative concepts, as well as gastronomic delivery service and catering. The SV Group employs around 5,800 people, of which 4,000 are in Switzerland.
The SV Group traces back to the non-profit organization "Schweizer Verband Soldatenwohl" founded in 1914. Else Züblin-Spiller established soldiers' lounges nationwide and served balanced and affordable meals there. The founder's idealistic values are continued today by the SV Foundation. This charitable foundation is the majority shareholder of the SV Group and uses its funds for projects in the field of healthy nutrition and for the common good.
At the Novartis Campus in Basel, our host team with 160 employees delights around 2400 guests daily.
Through the in-house catering offer, there is the possibility to order snacks and drinks for meetings or aperitifs.
Regular company events and special occasions with up to 1,500 people are held.
You work Monday to Friday, between 6:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., depending on the schedule.
Evening shifts depending on workload.