Catering Manager

Job Introduction

If you are a passionate Catering professional with exceptional experience managing a large team, please read on. We are looking to recruit a Catering Manager to oversee the catering function at Limerick with a fantastic team!

As the Catering Manager, you'll plan, organise, and coordinate all catering activity, ensuring to lead the team to deliver service excellence. You'll provide management and clear direction to your team in the Junior rank kitchen, ensuring they are motivated and engaged, and that they understand how their contribution impacts on the business.

To be truly successful in the role, you’ll have strong leadership skills, be self-motivated and enthusiastic. You’ll have a passion for innovation and be skilled in food delivery and people management.

Monday to Friday with flexible working hours. We believe in quality of life not only for our clients but our employees too!

Role Responsibility

General 

·       Ensure that methods of preparation, production and presentation comply with Sodexo’s standards and procedures. 

·       Comply with all relevant sections of the Quality Assurance Audit and to complete routine audits at a frequency as indicated in the “Unit Activity Calendar”. 

·       Ensure prompt provision and efficient service of all meals and catering requirements at the specified time to the standards laid down in the KPI's.  

·       Uphold the correct procedures in menu planning, ordering and stock control 

·       Receive and check goods-in against invoice for quantity and quality 

·       Ensure that all goods are quickly and correctly stored away on rotation system following the rule 'first in, first out' and comply with health and safety regulations 

·       Ensure the standards across the site(s) are in accordance with the Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators specified in the service contract.

·       Initiate a process of continuous improvement by undertaking company promotions and extraordinary merchandising initiatives to ensure the profitable growth of the contract. 

·       Attend to and take all necessary action, statutory or otherwise, in the event of incidents or accident, fire, theft, loss, damage, unfit food, or other irregularities and take such action as may be appropriate.  

·       Carry out other reasonable tasks as directed by management. 

Client 

·       Maintain excellent client relationships and communicate with the day-to-day client at every opportunity - holding at least a weekly review meeting 

·       Ensure that all written communication represents a professional image to customers, clients, and staff. 

·       Action customer compliments by praising staff and resolve complaints satisfactorily, referring to your line manager where necessary. 

Finance 

·       Ensure that the Company’s accountancy documentation and administration procedures are carried out to the Sodexo Way Compliance Standards and that the necessary weekly & monthly returns are completed accurately and transmitted at the appointed time or despatched manually. 

·       Ensure that all costs and expenditure are within the budgeted levels agreed between the Client and Sodexo.  Control all costs such as labour, expenses, cash purchases as agreed with your line manager. 

People 

·       Administer the payroll for establishment staff via EProfit and maintain personnel records to comply with statutory regulations and Company policy. 

·       To attend an annual appraisal with your Line Manager and to agree and take ownership of your training and development needs. 

·       Attend Company Training Courses and District Meetings as requested. 

·       Plan and control holidays within the operation to 'self-cover' where practicable 

The Ideal Candidate

·       You must be a strong team player with great communication skills, who enjoys working as part of a team. You must be able to work unsupervised and be able to prioritise work tasks whilst remaining calm under pressure

·       You must have CIEH & IOSH Qualifications 

·       It’s important that you Comply with all Company & Client policies, site rules and statutory regulations relating to Health & Safety, safe working practices, hygiene, cleanliness, fire, and chemical safety. This will include your awareness of any specific hazards in your workplace and training of staff. 

·       Two- three years leadership and supervisory experience preferable if you don’t have no bother still, we would like to hear from you

Package Description

Monday – Friday, with Competitive salary + Bonus and excellent Benefits Package.

 As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, private medical insurance, life assurance, 24hrs GP access and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave.

We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

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