Head Chef

We are currently recruiting for a Head Chef to join our passionate, supportive, and award-winning dining team, all within our iconic Knightsbridge store. Here at Harrods, we currently house more celebrity chefs, and exclusive dining brands than any other location in the UK.

About the Role

As Head Chef of The Grill at Harrods, you will take the lead in delivering exceptional food within our world-class Dining Hall. This is a fast-paced, operational role where your focus will be on ensuring the seamless execution of service. You’ll be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of the kitchen, setting production levels, maintaining quality standards, and ensuring smooth coordination with our in-house Production Kitchen to guarantee efficiency and consistency.

Leadership is at the heart of this role—you will inspire and guide your team, striking the balance between hands-on coaching and clear direction. You’ll build strong working relationships with key support functions, including Food Halls, Restaurants, Food Safety, Distribution, Store Services, and HR, to ensure every aspect of the operation runs flawlessly.

About You

You are currently a Head Chef or Senior Sous who is ready for the next challenge, with a strong track record in high-volume, quality-driven environments. Ideally, you have worked within a high-volume, high end restaurant, or a well-regarded branded restaurant group. Experience working within a grill restaurant, along with a knowledge and passion for meat cookery would be a significant advantage. Beyond leading your team in The Grill, you will also play a key role in supporting other outlets within our Dining Hall when needed.

You’ll have great time-management skills and a strong customer focus when dealing with both internal and external parties. You’ll have exceptional communicational and interpersonal skills as you will be interacting with other business areas in your day to day. You’ll ensure good attention to detail, which will be evident through paperwork completed, organisation of department and sufficient stock levels. Having good PC literacy is a must (Word, Excel and preferably SAP).

About Us

As the world’s leading luxury retail emporium, we make the impossible possible, and our hospitality offer is evolving and expanding rapidly across our stores. We are a welcoming and close-knit family who are passionate about food and beverage and aim to craft dining experiences that are the highlight of our customers’ visits.

Our Promise to You

Help us make the impossible possible for our customers and we’ll do something remarkable for you. As well as offering a friendly environment to inspire your best work, we provide abundant opportunities and support to build an exceptional career across the varied specialisms of our business.

In return for your hard work as Head Chef, you’ll learn every aspect of working in a busy, premier kitchen and will receive some great benefits including:

Competitive annual salary plus service charge

Minimal late finishes by industry standard

33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), plus your birthday off

Up to 33% in-store discount

Generous pension scheme

Great learning and development opportunities to help further your career

Uniquely You

While our job adverts outline the ideal qualities, skills, and prior experience for the role, we believe in the potential for growth and value individual strengths. If you do not meet every desired criteria but feel you have the skills and experience to thrive in this role as well as a genuine interest in working for Harrods and you can demonstrate an alignment with our values, we would encourage you to apply.

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes, and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

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