Holt Renfrew offers you an inspiring, fashion-driven environment with opportunities to learn and grow. From our incredible partnerships with iconic luxury brands, to our commitments to corporate social responsibility, you will be inspired every day.

A job at Holt Renfrew offers a competitive total compensation, a generous employee discount, pension, and health & dental benefits, tuition assistance, and continuous learning and development.

Pastry Chef

The Pastry Chef will be responsible for designing dessert menus, afternoon tea, preparing pastries, and ensuring a consistent product that meets our standards for quality and presentation

 

Specific responsibilities include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Ensure Pastry culinary standards for product quality, taste, presentation and execution are met in a consistent and timely manner

• Train cooks to develop pastry skills within the team

• Model appropriate standards, parameters and prescribed limits to kitchen staff; helping them to understand how they drive business

• Ensure that the Executive Chefs standards for product quality, taste, and execution are met in a consistent and timely manner

• Support and supervise the kitchen staff and motivate staff to take ownership of their work and deliver amazing service

• Support the achievement of sales volume and margin as determined by seasonal plans by creating profitable dishes

• Drive creation of afternoon tea dessert items. Showcasing creativity and skill with vendor brand partnerships.

• Ensure the kitchen meets or exceeds all health regulations, standards and codes – including safety practices, hygiene practices, and safe food handling and storage practices

• Controls waste of food

• Works swiftly and safely to deliver quick client service

• Controls waste of food, ensures proper rotation of perishable stock and maintains prep and storage areas in a clean, tidy and safe manner

• Keep records of quantities used and assists with food and supplies ordering

• Comply with all Health & Safety policies and requirement

• Build recipe databases for all pastry dishes in marketman

The ideal candidate:

• High school diploma

• Culinary school graduate

• Minimum of 5 years culinary experience within a renowned pastry kitchen environment

• Exude positivity and possess a welcoming and enthusiastic can-do attitude

• Exceptional ability to provide elevated guest experience

• Excellent leadership & communication skills

• Excellent overall pastry & bakery knowledge

• Experience working with chocolate & sugar

• Strong attention to detail

 

 

The measures of success:

• Individual objectives linked to the achievement of department goals

• Feedback from internal and external clients

• customer service results/ open table feedback

• positive impact on revenue with the target/focus of afternoon tea results 

Holt Renfrew is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our future success depends on the perspectives and contributions of all our employees -- their diverse backgrounds, abilities and experiences make our business stronger. If you are contacted for a job opportunity and require accommodation, please email careers@holtrenfrew.com and let us know so we can ensure you have an accessible candidate experience throughout the recruitment process. All requests are confidential and used only to meet candidate needs.

Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :

$17.60 - $29.25 / 17,60$ - 29,25$ (per hour / de l’heure)

Final compensation for this position will be determined based on the candidate's unique skills, expertise, individual qualifications, and assessed contributions to the role following the completion of the interview process. The range stated is the starting range for this position. Offers may vary with experience, qualifications, performance, and local market conditions. We strive to offer competitive compensation that aligns with a candidate's contributions to our team, along with a comprehensive benefits package, enticing perks, pension matching, incentives, and our coveted employee discount. / La rémunération finale pour ce poste sera déterminée sur la base des compétences uniques du candidat, de son expertise, de ses qualifications individuelles et de l'évaluation de sa contribution au poste à l'issue de la procédure d'entrevue. La fourchette indiquée est la fourchette de départ pour ce poste. Les offres peuvent varier en fonction de l’expérience, des qualifications, du rendement et des conditions du marché local. Nous nous efforçons d'offrir une rémunération compétitive qui corresponde à la contribution du candidat à notre équipe, ainsi qu'un ensemble complet de garanties, d'avantages attrayants, de cotisations de retraite assorties par l'employeur, de primes d'encouragement et notre très convoitée remise d'employé.