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Sous Chef at Quality Hotel 33!

Location

Norway, Oslo

Location

Norway, Oslo

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2026-05-13

Lead Culinary Excellence as Sous Chef at Quality Hotel 33!

Are you a passionate chef with a desire to lead and inspire? Quality Hotel 33 is seeking a talented and dedicated Sous Chef to join our Food and Beverage team and help create exceptional dining experiences for our guests. If you have a talent for creating delicious, high-quality dishes and want to thrive in a professional and dynamic kitchen environment, we would love to hear from you!

Why Quality Hotel 33?

At Quality Hotel 33, we live by the vision: "With Energy, Courage and Enthusiasm we create a better world"We are dedicated to service excellence, prioritizing the needs of our guests and making them the hero in their own storyAs a Quality hotel, we are committed to creating a welcoming environment that makes people feel at ease and comfortable

Your Responsibilities:

As the second-in-command, you will report directly to the Head Chef and ensure all parts of the operation run smoothly.
  • Culinary Excellence & Production: Prepare dishes with precision and passion, ensuring consistently high quality, in accordance with established procedures, routines, and profitability goals.
  • Mise en Place Expert: Execute daily mise en place for à la carte, lunch, banquet dinners or other meals ensuring seamless service and good communication with the team.
  • Kitchen Leadership & Team Development: Assist the Head Chef in overseeing daily kitchen operations, including food preparation, cooking, plating, food safety (IK-Mat), and managing staff. You will be a role model, handling onboarding and additional training of new and regular staff.
  • Inventory & Cost Management: Assist in managing inventory and costs, including ordering supplies, maintaining optimal stock levels, and working hard to minimize food waste and wastage at all levels. You must have great respect for raw materials and margins.
  • Hygiene, Health & Safety: Responsible for maintaining a good level of hygiene, health, and safety, operating in accordance with current routines and regulations.

What We Are Looking For:

  • A Values-Driven Professional: You are energetic, have courage, and are enthusiastic.
  • Experienced Leader: Proven experience in a similar role, demonstrating your culinary expertise and strong leadership skills.
  • Culinary Education: A chef certificate/diploma is desirable, but relevant experience and formal training can compensate.
  • Communication: We prefer that you either speak Scandinavian or at least understand Norwegian.
  • Flexible Team Player: Flexible, reliable, and enthusiastic about food and service, with a strong team-oriented mindset, ready to stand up for your colleagues.
  • Independent & Organized: Comfortable multi-tasking, making decisions independently in a fast-paced environment, and maintaining a good structure and organization of your work.

What We Offer:

  • Permanent Position: A permanent, full-time (100%) position with a start date to be agreed upon.
  • Varied Shifts: The position requires working varied shifts, including mornings, evenings, weekends, and Norwegian holidays.
  • Development Opportunities: Very good opportunities for professional development, training, and exciting career advancement within Strawberry.
  • Dynamic Culture: An inspiring, innovative, and inclusive work environment where your contributions are valued.
  • Compensation: Salary after agreement.

Strawberry Leadership:

As a Strawberry leader, you are expected to embody our culture by:
  • Energizing Teams: Creating engaging workplaces where people love to come to work.
  • Building Bridges: Fostering relationships, collaboration, and trust.
  • Owning It: Making decisions with the company's best interests in mind, setting clear goals, and holding yourself and others accountable for achieving results.
  • Leading the Way: Inspiring with vision and purpose, and fueling potential by maximizing individual strengths to help others reach their full potential.

Join Our Diverse Team & Apply:

We value the power of diversity within Strawberry. Different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas create a unique and inspiring work environment. Ready to elevate your career? If you are a passionate and skilled culinary professional ready to take the next step in your career, we encourage you to apply! We’re reviewing applications continuously, so positions may be filled before the deadline.

Ready to Elevate Your Career?

If you are a passionate and skilled culinary professional ready to take the next step in your career, we encourage you to apply!

We’re reviewing applications continuously, so positions may be filled before the deadline.

Why Join Quality & Strawberry?

At Quality, you’re part of a brand that combines the best of urban style and premium quality, and that commitment extends to our team. Here’s what you’ll enjoy:

  • A fast-paced, inspiring work environment where your contributions are valued
  • Opportunities to grow and develop within the dynamic Strawberry group
  • Staff discounts and friends & family rates across our 240+ hotels
  • Four complimentary hotel nights each year
  • A 25% discount on food and beverages at our restaurants and bars
  • Leaders at Strawberry have the opportunity to develop through the Unleash Leadership Curriculum

About Strawberry

Strawberry is not just any company in the hotel industry - we're a rebel, with a warm beating heart. Strawberry is a portal to a world of more than 240 hotels, 120 restaurants and 20 spas, where we create thousands of experiences every day. Strawberry is built on our core values: energy, courage and enthusiasm. Our team of 20,000 skillful individuals from more than 166 countries is what makes us grow.

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.

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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.

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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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