Performance Chef

Closing Date of Applications – 29th April 2024

Our Story

Manchester City is an English Premier League club whose roots began in East Manchester. From its first incarnation as St Mark’s West Gorton in 1880, the club became Manchester City FC in 1894. Behind each title lies emotion, moments and memories that resonate with millions of supporters around the world. Manchester City fans are known for their commitment and togetherness, as a Club that fights to the end.

Our Winning Team

MCFC is built on a vision for sustainability, with an academy structure designed to support long-term first team success, to engagement with the communities in which we reside. Together with our passionate fans and valued network of partners, we are developing Manchester City’s future history.

As a Performance Chef you will facilitate effective food production, utilising healthy cooking techniques inline with our overall goal of improving player health, performance, and recovery. Providing a professional, friendly and efficient service at CFA or off-site to all stakeholders, whilst ensuring health and safety and food hygiene standards are maintained. All whilst managing your area to ensure the kitchen and equipment is serviceable.

This is Your City

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and dental cover, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.

Your Impact

1. Prepare and present food inline with nutrition requirements as laid down by the First Team Head Chef and Nutritionist.
2. Complete relevant kitchen paperwork, including Allergen logging of the daily menu items and undertaking risk assessments in line with our Health and Safety/Food Safety/ Food.
3. Controlling and ordering food and service items to ensure optimum stock levels, ordering specialist products for CFA use and for off-site travel.
4. Travel domestically and internationally for extended periods providing team standard service.
5. Identify opportunities for self-improvement in any food preparation techniques, processes, and ways of working.

What we are looking for

Essential

• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Experience in food and customer service.
• Outstanding people skills
• Ability to work under own initiative and as part of a team.
• Ability positively to react to changes and diverse situations.
• Ability to plan and organise.
• Hold a currant health safety and food hygiene qualification.
• Creativity with presentation of food.
• Experience in assisting with stock control.
• Experience in dealing with suppliers.
• Proven experience in a hospitality environment.
• Proven experience in elite sports environment.

Desirable

• Previous experience of working with a nutritionist selling key messages.
• Stock control management.
• Second language
• HACCP & Food Safety Level 2

Welcome to your City

City Football Group is on a mission to become the world’s leading sports entertainment organisation, and we will continually push to achieve this with talented colleagues from diverse and wide-ranging backgrounds.

Those different perspectives and experiences will continue to help us empower better lives, create electric moments for the fans and seize opportunities for the future.

Positive impact that leads to lasting change is at the core of our values, if you want to be part of this forward movement, we welcome you