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Position Overview

Northview Hotels & Resorts is seeking an experienced, creative, and execution-focused Pastry Chef to help bring the next culinary chapter of The King & Prince Beach & Golf Resort to life. This opening culinary leadership role will support the resort’s food and beverage transformation by overseeing pastry, baking, desserts, banquet sweets, special occasion items, and related production across the property.

The Pastry Chef will be responsible for executing an established culinary and pastry direction with consistency, quality, and care. This role is not responsible for creating a brand-new concept, but for helping bring a designed vision to life through strong preparation, organization, technical skill, team leadership, and daily execution.

Working closely with the Executive Chef, Culinary Director, Food & Beverage leadership, and resort operations team, the Pastry Chef will help build and maintain pastry standards that support the resort’s restaurants, events, weddings, banquets, golf club, amenities, and seasonal programming.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead daily pastry and baking operations across the resort’s restaurants, banquets, events, amenities, golf club dining, and other food and beverage outlets.
• Execute established pastry menus, recipes, presentations, production standards, and quality expectations with consistency.
• Support opening readiness through pastry kitchen organization, equipment setup, ordering, production planning, recipe testing, training, and operational preparation.
• Partner closely with the Executive Chef and Culinary Director to ensure pastry execution aligns with the resort’s culinary direction, service standards, and guest experience.
• Produce high-quality desserts, breads, breakfast pastries, plated desserts, banquet sweets, wedding cakes or specialty items, amenities, and seasonal offerings as needed.
• Maintain consistency in flavor, appearance, portioning, temperature, texture, timing, and presentation.
• Train, coach, and develop pastry cooks, prep cooks, and culinary team members involved in pastry production.
• Create and maintain production schedules, prep lists, par levels, storage standards, and station organization.
• Ensure established recipes, plating guides, portion controls, and presentation standards are followed.
• Support banquet and event execution, including weddings, group functions, member events, holiday programming, and private dining experiences.
• Work collaboratively with culinary and front-of-house teams to support menu knowledge, timing, guest satisfaction, and special requests.
• Oversee ordering, receiving, inventory, storage, waste reduction, and cost control for pastry-related products.
• Maintain high standards for cleanliness, sanitation, food safety, equipment care, and kitchen organization.
• Support thoughtful use of seasonal, coastal, regional, and Southern-inspired ingredients in alignment with the resort’s culinary direction.
• Maintain a hands-on presence in production and service, especially during peak periods, events, and opening phases.
• Contribute to a kitchen culture rooted in hospitality, pride, professionalism, teamwork, accountability, and care.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a hands-on pastry leader who combines strong technical skill with organization, consistency, and a genuine passion for hospitality. This person understands that pastry plays an important role in the overall guest experience, from the first breakfast pastry to a memorable dessert, wedding cake, welcome amenity, or special event moment.

The Pastry Chef should be comfortable working within an established culinary direction and skilled at translating that direction into daily execution. They should bring creativity and craft, while also respecting standards, recipes, presentation expectations, and the overall vision for the resort.

This role is well suited for a pastry professional who enjoys openings, structure, collaboration, and the opportunity to help elevate a landmark coastal resort through thoughtful, consistent, and memorable pastry experiences.

Qualifications

• Significant pastry or baking leadership experience in a luxury resort, full-service hotel, private club, high-volume restaurant, bakery, or destination hospitality environment.
• Experience supporting openings, renovations, repositionings, or major operational transitions is preferred.
• Strong technical knowledge of pastry, baking, plated desserts, breads, breakfast pastries, banquet production, amenities, and special event items.
• Proven ability to execute established recipes, presentations, production standards, and quality expectations.
• Experience supporting weddings, banquets, group events, holiday programming, and high-volume pastry production.
• Ability to train, coach, and lead pastry cooks and other culinary team members.
• Strong organizational skills, including production planning, prep schedules, par levels, ordering, inventory, and waste control.
• Knowledge of food safety, sanitation, proper storage, allergen awareness, and kitchen cleanliness standards.
• Ability to work collaboratively with Executive Chef, Culinary Director, Food & Beverage leaders, banquet teams, and front-of-house teams.
• Strong communication, time management, problem-solving, and follow-through skills.
• A hands-on leadership style with pride in quality, consistency, presentation, and team development.
• Appreciation for coastal cuisine, Southern hospitality, seasonality, and sense of place.

Why Join The King & Prince

This is an opportunity to help execute one of the most significant hospitality transformations in the Southeast. The Pastry Chef will play an important role in bringing the resort’s next culinary chapter to life, ensuring that pastry and baking experiences are delivered with quality, consistency, warmth, and care.

In addition to the opportunity to support a landmark resort transformation, this position is part of the Northview Hotels & Resorts organization, offering long-term growth opportunities within a portfolio of distinctive properties and destination resorts across the country.

About Northview Hotels & Resorts

Northview Hotels & Resorts is a hospitality management company focused on operating distinctive hotels, resorts, and destination properties with a strong commitment to thoughtful service, operational excellence, and memorable guest experiences.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The King & Prince Beach & Golf Resort and Northview Hotels & Resorts are equal opportunity employers. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and welcome candidates who share our commitment to hospitality, excellence, and genuine care.