JOB SUMMARY
Exhibits creative baking and decorating talents by personally performing tasks while leading the staff in preparing quality and consistent pastries for all areas. Works to continually improve guest and employee satisfaction while maintaining the operating budget. Leads development and training of team to improve results while maintaining standards. Must ensure sanitation and food standards are achieved.
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
Leading Pastry Culinary Team
• Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
• Leads shifts while personally preparing food items and executing requests based on required specifications.
• Serves as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors.
• Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.
• Ensures and maintains the productivity level of employees.
• Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
• Solicits employee feedback, utilizes an "open door" policy and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns.
• Supervises and manages employees. Manages all day- to- day operations. Understands employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees&039; absence.
• Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
• Ensures employees understand expectations and parameters.
Ensuring Culinary Standards and Responsibilities are Met
• Recognizes superior quality products, presentations and flavor.
• Maintains food preparation handling and correct storage standards.
• Assists in determining how food should be presented and creates decorative food displays.
• Follows proper handling and right temperature of all food products.
• Supervises pastry preparation shift operations and ensures compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, standards and procedures.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Develops, designs, or creates new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
• Prepares and cooks foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests or functions.
• Checks the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.
• Supports procedures for food & beverage portion and waste controls.
• Maintains purchasing, receiving and food storage standards.
Ensuring Exceptional Customer Service
• Strives to improve service performance.
• Sets a positive example for guest relations.
• Manages day- to- day operations, ensuring the quality, standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis.
• Provides services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.
• Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service.
• Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.
• Emphasizes guest satisfaction during all departmental meetings and focuses on continuous improvement.
Maintaining Culinary Goals
• Trains employees in safety procedures and supervises their ability to follow loss prevention policies to prevent accidents and control costs.
• Purchases appropriate supplies and manage inventories according to budget.
• Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Achieves and exceeds goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.
Supports Training and Development Activities
• Ensures disciplinary procedures and documentation are completed according to Standard and Local Operating Procedures (SOPs and LSOPs) and support the Peer Review Process.
• Assists as needed in the interviewing and hiring of employee team members with appropriate skills.
• Participates in training staff on menu items including ingredients, preparation methods and unique tastes.
• Ensures property policies are administered fairly and consistently.
• Reviews staffing levels to ensure that guest service, operational needs and financial objectives are met.
Additional Responsibilities
• Brings issues to the attention of the department manager and Human Resources as necessary.
• Provides information to supervisors, co- workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e- mail, or in person.
• Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Attends and participates in all pertinent meetings.
At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates. We are committed to non- discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.
