🎿 Chalet & Head Chef Roles — French Alps, Winter 2026/27

🍽 Opportunity VIP SKI is staffing its winter 2026/27 season across three Alpine valleys at once — Les Arcs, La Plagne, and Val d'Isère — with chef roles ranging from chalet-level CLUB Chef right up to Head Chef of the company's own Bear Lodge Hotel. It's a rare single-employer spread across that much terrain, which means real choice over which resort and which style of kitchen suits you. 👨‍🍳 Available Positions - Head Chef, Bear Lodge Hotel — running the hotel's industrial kitchen: staffing, menu design, supplier relationships, and budget ownership - CLUB Chef & CLUB Sous Chef — cooking a set 4-course dinner six nights a week plus breakfast and afternoon tea, for chalets of 15-30 guests - Sous Chef and Chef de Partie / Commis Chef roles across the three resorts - Kitchen Porter support roles 🌎 ChefJobs Abroad Analysis This is classic Alpine chalet cooking, but with more range than most operators offer: three resort valleys, a proper hotel kitchen at one end of the spectrum, and intimate 15-30-guest chalet dinners at the other. It suits a chef who wants a full season on snow without giving up cooking for it — CLUB Chef roles especially are hands-on, service-heavy, and social in a way hotel kitchens rarely are. It's a harder fit for anyone chasing a fixed 9-to-5 kitchen structure; chalet cooking here means owning breakfast through afternoon tea to dinner, six nights a week. ✅ Best Fit This opportunity is ideal for chefs who: - Want a full Alpine winter season with skiing access built into the lifestyle - Are comfortable running a small chalet kitchen solo or alongside one sous chef - Have, or are working toward, French language skills (an advantage, not a requirement) - Hold a full, clean driving licence with 2+ years behind the wheel - Have prior seasonal or chalet cooking experience - Want to choose between hotel-scale (Bear Lodge) and intimate chalet-scale kitchens