Saudi Arabia Job Openings
Four Seasons
Director of Catering – Four Seasons Hotel Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Medina
FULL TIME
September 9, 2024
About Four Seasons:
Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.
At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.
About the location:
Steps from the Prophet’s Mosque, our Hotel will offer luxury accommodation for the city’s 1.5 million annual visitors. The new-build hotel will be located at the heart of Madinah and steps from one of the most historic and significant sites in the region: Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, also known as the Prophet’s Mosque. Madinah is also home to the Quba Mosque, which is regarded as the oldest mosque in the world.
The Role of Director of Catering:
We currently have an opportunity for Director of Catering to join our Four Seasons Hotel Madinah opening team!
Reporting to the Director of Marketing you will be responsible for assisting in leading the daily Catering operation, ensuring exceptional service and attention to our guests.
Responsibilities will include selection, talent management and development of our Food and Catering team, being visible in the operation ensuring we are recognizing our guests and cultivating new guest relationships, working closely with the Executive Chef to plan and develop menus, controlling expenses through effective planning, budgeting and purchasing decisions, policy making and inventory control, and ensuring our guests feel receive the highest levels of service excellence.
You will have a special talent for building, leading, coaching, training, and developing a strong team; ensuring our employees feel at home and receive the highest levels of support and care along with creating a great workplace for all great people to deliver great experiences.
Our Ideal Director of Catering candidate will have:
A special talent and passion for ensuring you and your team deliver the highest of standards consistently and ensuring that our food offering is at the centre of our guest experience. You should have a wealth of Food experience in luxury resorts, a desire to focus on the development of our team and a creative flair, bringing your personal touch and energy to all our food experiences.
You should have at least five to seven years of experience with a diversity of Food and Catering management positions, and ideally you will also have hotel opening experience.
Suitable candidates must be eligible to work in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. Fluency in Arabic and English is essential.
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts can offer what many hospitality professionals dream of; the opportunity to build a life-long career with global potential and a real sense of pride in work well done. We look for talent who share the Golden Rule – people who, by nature, believe in treating others as we would have them treat us. As Four Seasons works towards phenomenal growth in the next decade, our most valuable partners continue to be our talent, with whom we have a strong relationship based on the Golden Rule. This relationship is made tangible by the awards received year after year by Four Seasons on a corporate level, as well as by our hotels, resorts and residences around the world, making us an undisputed “employer of choice.”
Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.
At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.
About the location:
Steps from the Prophet’s Mosque, our Hotel will offer luxury accommodation for the city’s 1.5 million annual visitors. The new-build hotel will be located at the heart of Madinah and steps from one of the most historic and significant sites in the region: Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, also known as the Prophet’s Mosque. Madinah is also home to the Quba Mosque, which is regarded as the oldest mosque in the world.
The Role of Director of Catering:
We currently have an opportunity for Director of Catering to join our Four Seasons Hotel Madinah opening team!
Reporting to the Director of Marketing you will be responsible for assisting in leading the daily Catering operation, ensuring exceptional service and attention to our guests.
Responsibilities will include selection, talent management and development of our Food and Catering team, being visible in the operation ensuring we are recognizing our guests and cultivating new guest relationships, working closely with the Executive Chef to plan and develop menus, controlling expenses through effective planning, budgeting and purchasing decisions, policy making and inventory control, and ensuring our guests feel receive the highest levels of service excellence.
You will have a special talent for building, leading, coaching, training, and developing a strong team; ensuring our employees feel at home and receive the highest levels of support and care along with creating a great workplace for all great people to deliver great experiences.
Our Ideal Director of Catering candidate will have:
A special talent and passion for ensuring you and your team deliver the highest of standards consistently and ensuring that our food offering is at the centre of our guest experience. You should have a wealth of Food experience in luxury resorts, a desire to focus on the development of our team and a creative flair, bringing your personal touch and energy to all our food experiences.
You should have at least five to seven years of experience with a diversity of Food and Catering management positions, and ideally you will also have hotel opening experience.
Suitable candidates must be eligible to work in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. Fluency in Arabic and English is essential.
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts can offer what many hospitality professionals dream of; the opportunity to build a life-long career with global potential and a real sense of pride in work well done. We look for talent who share the Golden Rule – people who, by nature, believe in treating others as we would have them treat us. As Four Seasons works towards phenomenal growth in the next decade, our most valuable partners continue to be our talent, with whom we have a strong relationship based on the Golden Rule. This relationship is made tangible by the awards received year after year by Four Seasons on a corporate level, as well as by our hotels, resorts and residences around the world, making us an undisputed “employer of choice.”
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