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Sous Chef - Quality Hotel™ Waterfront, Ålesund

Location

Norway, Ålesund

Location

Norway, Ålesund

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2025-05-25

We’re hiring: Sous Chef at Quality Hotel™ Waterfront, Ålesund

At Quality Hotel™ Waterfront we are seeking a Sous Chef who, alongside the Food & Beverage team, will create a delicious dining experience for all our hotel and conference guests.

What’s the job about?

As Sous Chef, you’re a key player in the kitchen. You’ll take part in planning, producing and presenting food that’s not only tasty, but also thoughtful. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, know your flavors, and love bringing out the best in your team. You’re structured, solution-oriented and have passion for hospitality.

What we offer:

  • A vibrant and welcoming work environment 
  • Great staff benefits across the Strawberry family
  • The chance to work in a creative, highly professional and rewarding environment
  • Plenty of fun and new challenges

We hope you:

  • Have previous experience as a Sous Chef or are ready to take the step up
  • Care deeply about ingredients, quality and sustainability
  • Are a natural team player and leader
  • Speak fluet English or a Scandinavian language
  • Have the ability to take on a large work capacity and multi-task under pressure

 

Wanna join our crew?

Send us your application – tell us a bit about yourself and why you think you’re the right fit.

Application deadline: As soon as possible – we’re hiring continuously!
Start date: By agreement
Questions? Reach out to our Head Chef at erik.sandal@strawberry.no or +47 988 90 962.

Why choose Quality Hotel™ & Strawberry?

  • An active and dynamic working environment where no two days are the same.
  • Opportunities for career development and growth within the Strawberry group.
  • Staff discounts and friends & family rates at our 200+ hotels.
  • Four free hotel nights every yea
  • 25% discount on food & beverages at all our restaurants and bars
  • Sweet deals on experiences, travels, retail and lots more!

Det er en grunn til at det er akkurat du som ønsker å jobbe i Strawberry Du ser muligheter på våre 100 destinasjoner. Du tror du vil passe inn i vårt mangfold blant 18.000 ansatte. Du er spent på våre fantastiske hotellkjeder og du har energi, mot og begeistring så det holder. Vil du vite mer om oss? Vi gleder oss til å høre fra deg!

Quality Hotel™  er en del av Strawberry.

What’s in it for you?

As part of of Strawberry, you will get the best employee benefits of the industry.

A culture to cherish

A culture to cherish

Our people always make guests their top priority! Our warm and welcoming atmosphere creates the right setting for you to flourish and work your magic. You will get the freedom you need to perform your tasks and solve problems as they arise in the best way you see fit. A strong team spirit and family-feeling foster a culture of collaboration. And when there’s something to celebrate, we make sure to have some fun! In larger cities, we also regularly host after-work events to allow colleagues to mingle. How do we achieve all this you may wonder? We believe it’s down to the fact that we’re a diverse crowd full of energy, courage and enthusiasm. That’s how we create extraordinary experiences every single day!

A culture to cherish

Job security for peace of mind

Job security for peace of mind

When you work with us, we’ll take your whole life situation into consideration. We offer good job security through collective agreements and insurances, as well as paid parental leave, holiday leave, wellness allowance, attractive pension plans and competitive salaries. We’re there for you.

Job security for peace of mind

Room to grow

Room to grow

With more than 200 hotels across the Nordics, we offer you endless opportunities for career progression! Would you like to work full-time, part-time, a few hours here and there, or perhaps only a season? We have room for you, no matter where you’re at. We encourage creativity and curiosity, and we make every effort to foster a culture of learning for professional development. Ready to take your next career leap within the company? We applaud you and will help you achieve this! An academic degree isn't the most important thing for us. If you have the right mindset, we can certainly promise you a bright future!

Room to grow

Explore more

Explore more

We encourage you to get out and explore all that life has to offer! So, we always give numerous discounts to you and your friends and family at our hotels, bars and restaurants. As part of Strawberry, you get four FREE nights at our hotels each year* To remind you just how important you are, we’ll always do our best to offer you an upgrade! And on top of that, we’ve also partnered with other companies to give you sweet deals on air travel, charter holidays, car rental and lots more. 

*If you are employed on a contract for at least 20% of full-time working hours.

Explore more

Open mind, open hearts

Open mind, open hearts

Our heart beats for the world around us. To meet global challenges, we support the transition to clean energy, and we recently opened the first zero-energy hotel in the Nordics. We seek to use organic produce and have championed the elimination of unsustainable palm oil. We promote equal rights above all and are proud sponsors of Pride. Regardless of your ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, disabilities or age - our doors are always open.

Open mind, open hearts

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More than 3 years
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Less than 1 year
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Culinary school or certificate program
Bachelor's degree or higher in culinary arts
Associate's degree in culinary arts
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Structured and solution-oriented
Creative and innovative
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