Business Manager

Job Introduction

As a Business Manager at Sodexo based in Killarney you are an inspirational leader and key to driving employee engagement across our client site and providing training and development to ensure our teams can achieve their full potential.

You’ll manage the catering, hospitality and cleaning services ensuring we deliver an excellent customer experience in line with company’s standards and to the agreed performance, qualitative and financial targets. Ensuring that all costs and expenditure are within the agreed budgeted levels.

Join Sodexo and be part of something greater. You belong in a team where you can act with purpose and thrive in your own way.

Role Responsibility

What You’ll Do

• Maximise profitable sales by the introduction and maintenance of food service brands
• Comply with all Company and Client policies and procedures, site rules and statutory regulations including Health and Safety, Food Hygiene, safe working practices, cleanliness, fire and COSHH. This will include your awareness of any specific hazards in your workplace and training of staff.
• Develop long term Client relationships and identify business opportunities
• Plan, cost, and document menus and ensure these are consolidated across the business.  
• Ensure stock levels are kept to the agreed establishment targets and supplies are ordered from nominated suppliers
• Monitor and maintain consistent methods of food preparation, production, presentation, and service for all meals
• Conduct regular reviews of current operating costs, margins, controls, and menu costings to ensure Sodexo is achieving optimum profit.
• Ensure the prompt and efficient preparation and service of all meals at the required time, being provided to the standard in line with Service Level Agreement
• Ensure financial documentation and accountancy of the unit (and those from suppliers) is accurate and within agreed budgeted levels
• Motivate and lead catering and cleaning employees to perform their roles to a high standard and in alignment to Sodexo policies and procedures.

The Ideal Candidate

What You Bring

• Strong management skills with experience gained from working within the catering or hospitality industry and an understanding of the importance of client relationship management
• Ability to achieve and set standards and operate to performance criteria.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with customers, clients, and staff at all levels
• Able to manage budgets and take responsibility for the P&L
• Experience of using MS Office including Excel

Package Description

What we offer

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we offer:

• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Access to ongoing training and development programs
• Countless opportunities to grow within the company
• Free on-site parking

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process