Catering Manager

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Job Introduction

Catering Manager

Location: Paddington, London

Salary: £55,000 & range of excellent employee benefits

Onsite – Monday-Friday

Sodexo has a great opportunity for an experienced Catering Manager to join our established team working with our prestigious clients based in London.

Joining our team at their site in Paddington, you will act as the primary representative of Sodexo within the Catering service, supporting regional sites as required and working collaboratively across teams as appropriate to ensure that Sodexo working for the food division UK delivers both qualitative & quantitative results, ensuring the effective operation in all Catering outlets, through the provision of team management and service delivery, streamlining processes and illuminating duplication of effort where possible.

The Catering Manager will motivate and lead a high performing team to achieve their objectives and the Sodexo strategy whilst providing direction and expertise to the operating area by promoting the strategies and best business practices to uphold the Company mission & values whilst providing excellent customer service, performing the preparation, presentation and service of food and beverages to the client & Sodexo’s satisfaction with management of Sodexo’s accounts ensuring that the Client receives services of the highest quality.

Accountabilities
•   Management of Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation relating to the building portfolio ensuring the statutory requirements are met and all records maintained up to standards
•   Risk management; minimise risk and maintain profitability completing technical/quality assessments to understand the impact of change activities and commissioning checks to ensure the standard of change meets expectation.
•   Strategic and technical support; professional advice to customers, peers and team. Coordinate and direct all activities within the assigned areas
• Manage and control the services to the agreed specification and to the agreed performance, qualitative and financial targets
• Look for and implement opportunities to drive Sodexo revenue and labour productivity in the units
•   Plan and check that marketing initiatives are implemented standard Manage rotas for all KP’s across food production areas
•   To be fully conversant with the concept, presentation and delivery of all menu items and cooking methods
•   Attend the Weekly Planning Menu Meeting to agree ordering volumes for the street operations weekly menu cycle and adjust ordering volumes accordingly
•   Manage the CPU Team on a day-to-day basis, to deliver on requested supplies
•   Check and review the work of team members

People
•   Measure the performance of your people by giving feedback and reviewing and completing appraisals
•   Develop your people and ensure succession planning, managing poor performance
•   Communicate regularly; monthly meetings and daily face to face team briefing
•   Ensure your team deliver your operation to the service standards agreed in the contract with your client
•   Select, recruit and induct the right team

Finance
•   Manage a team to increase the Client and Sodexo’s revenue opportunities i.e., commercial opportunities, labour efficiency and generate the GOP expected within the contract
• Protect the company’s profit by delivering your Sodexo budget each month. Ensure cash, stock, debt and assets are properly controlled
• Streamline processes and ordering to ensure maximizing of gross margin, reduction in duplication of effort and streamlining of processes. Communicate clearly with all areas to ensure continuation of process

Health & Safety
• To enforce Health & Safety legislation and ensure all staff comply with Health & Safety and Food Safety
• Ensure the Health, Safety and Welfare of all people on site at all times
•   Ensure Manual Handling Tasks are carried out in accordance with company and statutory legislation

About You

Experience and knowledge requirement for this role:

Strong background in the Catering Industry with direct experience of supporting multi-sites
Experience of working in a similar industry such as food service, catering or hospitality
Strong customer facing skills and an ability to work under pressure are necessary requirements for the position Strong People Management and influencing skills
Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the team
Ability to analyse problems analytically, develop opportunities and implement innovate solutions/approaches
Able to demonstrate personal self-development and development of team
Demonstration of teamwork, implementing initiatives and working on own judgement and decisions
Change management and performance management experience
Understands customers’ commercial and business objectives in order to meet their needs
Considers long term as well as short term implications of actions
Understands what drives and affects the success of an organisation
Knows the products range and its strengths and weaknesses
Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to adhere to all health & safety practices
High levels of personal hygiene and appearance
Strong level of literacy and numeracy
Excellent written and verbal skills
Strong customer service skills
Clear and effective leadership
Excellent organisational skills
Computer literate

Qualifications required:

IOSH Certificate
HACCP / Food Safety / Food Allergens

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.

In addition, we offer:

Flexible and dynamic work environment
Competitive compensation
Wide range of Employee benefits
Access to ongoing training and development programs
Countless opportunities to grow within the company
Employees can opt to increase their employer contribution up to a maximum of 6% with an equal employee match
Life Assurance Coverage of 1x annual salary

This position will require the successful candidate to undergo a standard DBS check. Therefore, eligibility is a must.

About Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. We operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities.

We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We are 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 run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Ready to be part of something greater?

Apply today!

Salary	£55,000 and a range of excellent employee benefits
Frequency	Monthly
Job Reference	SDX/TP/182500/CS
Contract Type	Permanent – Full Time
Closing Date	18 August, 2024
Job Category	Catering Management
Business Unit	UK Corporate Services
Location	London, United Kingdom
Posted on	18 July, 2024

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