Executive Chef, System

Morrison Healthcare

Salary: 80,000 - 90,000 / year based on experience

Other Forms of Compensation: Flexible Paid Time Off, Benefits, 401K, Training

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Morrison Healthcare, a Compass Healthcare company, is a leader in healthcare food and nutrition services company, serving more than 1,000 hospitals and healthcare systems across the country. With more than 31,000 associates nationwide, Morrison uses the Power of Food to create personalized dining experiences for patients and in their cafés to advance the healing and healthful missions of its clients. Morrison has been serving some of the nation’s largest health systems for more than 70 years, and it leverages culinary, nutritional, and operational expertise to provide consistency and transform the healthcare experience.

Since 2012, Morrison has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work and Training Magazine has named it a Top 125/APEX Award Training Organization. Morrison has more than 1,600 registered dietitians and 1,200 executive chefs, and serves more than 600M meals annually.

As a System Support Executive Chef, you will provide flexible culinary leadership across an 9-hospital acute care network throughout the Chicagoland area. You will step into Executive Chef roles as needed to ensure operational continuity, exceptional food quality, regulatory compliance, and outstanding patient and retail dining experiences. This role is ideal for an adaptable culinary leader who thrives in dynamic environments and enjoys supporting multiple healthcare facilities.

Bench leaders play a critical role in stabilizing operations, supporting leadership transitions, developing culinary teams, and ensuring consistency across patient dining, retail, catering, and physician dining programs. They help drive food quality, food safety, customer satisfaction, and financial performance throughout the health system.

• Provide culinary and operational leadership across multiple acute care hospitals based on system and facility needs.
• Assess kitchen operations and implement best practices to improve food quality, efficiency, service execution, and associate engagement.
• Hire, train, coach, and develop culinary team members, including cooks, sous chefs, and supervisors.
• Ensure consistent execution of menus, recipes, production standards, and presentation guidelines.
• Maintain compliance with all food safety, sanitation, infection prevention, and workplace safety regulations.
• Partner with Clinical Nutrition, Patient Services, and Nursing teams to support patient dining programs and nutrition standards.
• Monitor food and labor costs, inventory controls, purchasing practices, and waste reduction initiatives.
• Support department training programs, culinary development, and associate engagement efforts.
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives, operational reviews, inspections, and audits.
• Support retail dining, physician lounges, catering services, and special events as needed.
• Serve as an operational resource during leadership vacancies, program implementations, facility openings, audits, renovations, and periods of increased demand.
• Foster a culture of safety, hospitality, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Associate degree with one (1) year of culinary or food service experience, or bachelor's degree in Culinary Arts, Food service Management, Hospitality Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of three (3) years of progressive food service leadership experience, preferably in healthcare, hospitality, or contract food service.
• Previous Executive Chef, Sous Chef, or Culinary Manager experience preferred.
• Healthcare food service experience strongly preferred.
• Serv Safe® Manager Certification preferred.
• Strong knowledge of food production, menu planning, food safety regulations, and culinary operations.
• Experience managing food and labor budgets, inventory controls, purchasing programs, and productivity initiatives.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office and food service management systems.
• Excellent leadership, communication, coaching, and customer service skills.
• Ability to travel and support accounts throughout the Chicagoland area daily, with the ability to travel nationally if needed.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new environments, build strong relationships, and lead teams through change and transition.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance/ AD
• Disability…