Executive Sous Chef
New Orleans, LAFull-timePosted 2mo agoStill listed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Executive Sous Chef will partner with the Executive Chef to provide strategic culinary leadership for the new Fairmont New Orleans hotel, overseeing operations, financial performance, and brand standards while mentoring a high‑performing brigade.
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Company Description
Company Description Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a renowned luxury hotel brand with a global presence and a commitment to creating lasting memories for our guests. With over 30,000 colleagues worldwide, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional service, fostering a culture of excellence, and making special happen. Hotel Overview: Located in the heart of downtown Fairmont New Orleans will be an impressive new addition to Fairmont’s luxury portfolio, offering 250 luxury guest rooms, four food & drink venues, a rooftop pool with expansive views of the city, more than 19,000 square feet of function space, and a 10,000 square-foot spa. This property is destined to become an illustrious destination in the Central Business District, nearby the city’s renowned and historic French Quarter.
Job Description
Reporting to the Executive Chef, responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:
- Provide strategic culinary leadership in partnership with the Executive Chef, aligning the culinary leadership team around culture, accountability, operational excellence, and the philosophy of “Make It Count”. Assume full operational responsibility for culinary operations in the Executive Chef’s absence
- Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing culinary brigade through recruitment, onboarding, coaching, succession planning, and performance management, fostering an engaged, inclusive, and collaborative culture across all culinary operations
- Drive financial performance and operational excellence by overseeing food and labor costs, budgeting and forecasting, yield analysis, inventory management, procurement (Birchstreet), workforce scheduling (Watson LMS), and initiatives that reduce waste and support sustainability
- Ensure exceptional culinary execution and elevated guest experience through menu engineering, disciplined recipe costing, daily quality assurance, real-time coaching, and strict adherence to food quality, presentation, consistency, and dietary requirements
- Champion and uphold Fairmont brand standards, as well as all health, safety, and regulatory requirements, including food safety, sanitation, grooming and hygiene standards, equipment maintenance, and compliance with the hotel’s Culinary Cultural Manual
- Foster collaboration across Food & Beverage and other hotel departments to deliver exceptional guest experiences, drive innovation across restaurants, bars, banquets, Fairmont Gold and in-room dining, and leverage operational and financial performance data to identify opportunities for continuous improvement
Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of progressive culinary leadership experience within a luxury hotel or high-volume kitchen environment
- Proven ability to lead with influence, foster trust, accountability, and a culture of excellence
- Demonstrated success in recruiting, mentoring, and retaining top-tier culinary talent, with a focus on long-term succession planning
- Strategic and operational expertise in labor management, food cost control, and productivity optimization
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
How this job compares
Set against the 464 open Culinary Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$75–90K/yr377 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 10 open Culinary Management jobs in Louisiana and 464 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Culinary Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 247 postings).
- Education
- 0 of the 464 open Culinary Management jobs (0%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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