Head Chef (d/f/m)
Bern
Key information
- Publication date:10 January 2026
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
Join SV Group for an exciting culinary journey! Enjoy a dynamic work environment and great benefits.
Tasks
- Ensure smooth kitchen operations and coordinate daily tasks efficiently.
- Create top-notch dishes with your team, showcasing culinary creativity.
- Organize catering orders, overseeing production and timely delivery.
Skills
- Completed cooking apprenticeship or equivalent, with extensive experience.
- Strong culinary skills with a commitment to high quality.
- Business-minded with creativity and experience in banquets.
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Are you interested in exciting culinary arts and eager for a fresh and varied kitchen? Then you are exactly right with us!
You with us. A recipe for success.
- You ensure a smooth operation in the kitchen and efficiently coordinate the daily processes
- Together with your team, you create first-class dishes and bring in your culinary creativity
- You organize and supervise the production, provision, and timely delivery of catering orders
- You are responsible for menu planning, ordering, inventory, and other administrative tasks
- You ensure compliance with and implementation of ISO and HACCP guidelines and maintain the highest hygiene standards
- You have completed a professional chef apprenticeship EFZ or an equivalent qualification
- You already have many years of experience in the same role
- Professional experience in banquet and à la carte areas is an advantage
- Business thinking and acting are among your strengths
- You are creative and have a high quality standard
- Feasting: Free, fresh, and healthy employee meals
- Discounts: Employee rates in SV-managed hotels and discounted meals in our restaurants
- Flexibility: Part-time work and job sharing possible, depending on the operation no hourly tracking
- Workwear: We provide and clean employees' work clothing
- Compensation: Market-based salary and 13th-month pay
- Family-friendly: 5 weeks vacation, purchase of additional vacation possible, 16 weeks maternity leave
- Bonus and vouchers: Employee referral program, gifts for anniversaries and birthdays
- Development: SV Academy with nearly 300 trainings, courses, further education opportunities, and e-learnings
- Additional benefits: Various discounts (e.g., at Sunrise, Reka, Migrol, Fleurop, collective insurance CSS/Helsana)
Déborah, HR Assistant
The SV Group is a leading gastronomy and hotel management group based in Dübendorf near Zurich. The group operates in several business areas: restaurants for companies and schools, hotels with own brands as well as other renowned brands as franchisee, public restaurants with innovative concepts, as well as gastronomic delivery service and catering. The SV Group employs around 5,800 people, of which 4,000 are in Switzerland.
The SV Group traces back to the non-profit organization "Swiss Association for Soldiers' Welfare" founded in 1914. Else Züblin-Spiller established soldiers' lounges nationwide and served balanced and affordable meals there. The founder's idealistic values are continued today by the SV Foundation. This charitable foundation is the majority shareholder of the SV Group and uses its funds for projects in the field of healthy nutrition and for the common good.
At the Mattehof Gastronomy in Bern, our host team with 17 employees pampers around 500 guests daily. The high-quality, attractive, and varied offer consists of various menus, front cooking (pasta concept, wok or grill), free choice buffet, extensive salad buffet, and snacks. Additionally, the gastronomy includes a cafeteria. Through the in-house catering offer, there is the possibility to order snacks and drinks for meetings or aperitifs. Regular company events and special occasions are held.
You work from Monday to Friday, each day between 06:00 - 15:30, depending on the schedule. The operation is closed on holidays and weekends. You are flexibly deployable for occasional special events.