Vacancies
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How lovely to see you here. We’re excited that you might want to come work with us.
All current vacancies can be found below. Please send any emails regarding recruitment to [email protected]. Because of the automated way that many recruitment sites work nowadays (and the volume of CVs we get), we ask that you include a cover note with your CV, telling us why you want to work with ScandiKitchen – and why this role is perfect for you.
If you don’t see your perfect role here, you can still email – and please be specific about what it is you want to do. As a growing company, roles do come up from time to time that are not advertised here.
Please note we’re not set up to sponsor roles via the VISA route. This means you need to have settled, pre-settled, UK/IE passport (or other form of work visa) in order to apply to work with us.
Current Vacancies
Chef / Head of food prep
Sick of evening work? Want to manage nice people, have fun, make pretty food – and have actual business input? It might be YOU that we’re looking for. This role has lots of scope to grow and take more responsibilities across the different cafes and work closely with our Founders and Hospitality Ops Manager.
A bit about us: We’re ScandiKitchen. Been around as a café/deli for almost 18 years – and have now also opened another one, with plans for more. Our cafes serve Scandi café food made in our prep kitchens on site: pretty open sandwiches, meatballs, salads, rolls, buns and cakes – as well as Scandi inspired breakfast.
In this role, your main responsibilities will be:
- Manage the day-to-day kitchen teams across both locations and assist the team with daily prep and planning in this hands-on role.
- Oversee the running of the kitchens and ensure we stay effective, efficient and that our offering continues to be great tasting and innovative.
- Responsible for kitchen stock and ordering as well as managing ongoing costings.
- Responsible for kitchen Health & Safety
- As part of the management team, you will assist with menu development, business planning and team recruitment.
What you look like:
- Solid experience of working in a professional kitchen is essential.
- Experience of managing or supervising a team
- An understanding /interest of Nordic food culture
- You’re full of energy – with excellent attention to detail – and can think outside the box.
- Clean and tidy and able to work in an organized manner.
- You don’t stress easily, and you bring a positive attitude to work.
- An absolutely team player: You know that when the team clicks, everyone wins.
- Knowledge of a Nordic language is helpful (but not essential).
Finer details:
- Place of work is central London (Fitzrovai and Victoria).
- Daytime hours only (yes, there is weekend work because we ALL share the weekends to make it fair for everyone).
- Full time (by this, we mean around 40 hours). This role is not offered part time.
- You need to have the right to work in the UK to apply.
What's on offer:
- Competitive annual salary
- 28 days holiday (20+8 bank holidays) – plus a week’s extra holiday if you get married/civil partnership.
- Pension scheme
- Generous discount in our Scandinavian grocery shop
- Free food while you work at the cafe (50% discount off café at other times)
- Referral scheme (up to £500 per person)
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity package (after qualifying period)
- Potential for bespoke study package for those who wish to continue learning.
- Opportunities for training and career progression within our company.
- Team events and fun stuff are added on top of all this – and (of course) you’ll be part of an inclusive and kind team of really great people.
To apply, send your CV and cover note* to Emma via [email protected].
*Why send a cover note?
It makes you stand out from the other applicants. We want to know not just what things you have done but also who you are. Why do you want to join us? What made you feel that this is the role for you when you read the description? How important is the right team and people to you? How much do you love ABBA? A few paragraphs will do. Thank you.
Café Manager for Scandinavian Café in London
We’re looking for an experienced Café Manager to help us run things at ScandiKitchen.
Reporting into the Hospitality Ops Manager, you’ll oversee the day to day running of one of our cafes in London. Each café has a team of 12 lovely people, serving breakfast, lunch and coffees. Our cafés are located in Victoria and Oxford Circus.
This is a really great role, coming into the business just as we have opened our 2nd café. Things are growing and we really want to find the right person to join the senior team, someone who can really help us cement the team and growth of the business as we find out feet in our new place.
Responsibilities:
- Management of day-to-day café operations
- Responsible for customer service delivery of both café and retail
- Management of the team (from performance to assisting with training, inductions and general performance management).
- Management of retail in the café – ordering, display and sales targets
- Oversee local café’s weekly marketing execution
- Responsible for H&S at the café
Skills & Experience:
- Relevant experience in a similar hospitality role (you may currently be operating as a senior AM now, ready to move up)
- Good barista skills (as you will be doing quality control and training others)
- Solid people / interpersonal skills – both as a people manager and dealing with customers.
- You enjoy taking charge in getting towards goals and targets and have strong leadership skills.
- Able to cope with stressful and busy situation, keeping a level calm head
- Positive and outgoing – able to gel with most people and are a full-on team player
- Logic and problem-solving skills – you can think on your feet and made decisions
- Some experience of kitchen work and/or retail work would be useful.
- Knowledge of Nordic food / language very useful in this role, but not essential
- Some knowledge of Excel and basic office packages
What we offer:
- A competitive, salaried package
- 28 days holiday (20+8 bank holidays) – plus a week’s extra holiday if you get married/civil partnership.
- Private healthcare
- Pension scheme
- Potential for bespoke study package for those who wish to continue learning in relevant fields
- Opportunities for training and career progression within our company.
- Generous discount in our Scandinavian grocery shop
- Free food while you work at the cafe (50% discount off food in our café at other times)
- Referral scheme (up to £500 per person)
- Team events and fun stuff are added on top of all this – and (of course) you’ll be part of an inclusive and kind team of lovely people.
We all share the weekend shifts so you will be working 5 days a week across 7 days (shifts vary, as we work it out fairly as a team so we all get some weekends off – and work on others).
This role is full-time and ongoing, daytime hours. The role is vacant now (but we will wait for the right person).
Want to know more about us? Peek here www.instagram.com/scandikitchen.
To apply, send your CV and cover letter to [email protected]
