Catering and Business Manager

Job Introduction

Sodexo have an opening for a Catering Business Manager to join the team based on site at Hollister, Ballina, Co Mayo one of the region's leading employers.

A great opportunity for an experienced and engaging hands-on people manager with a background in the food services industry. You’ll manage the production of all catering and cleaning services across the site and have the support of a dedicated administrator, onsite Head Chef, Team Leaders on each shift and an established team who support each other.  

This role is the key point of contact for our client and our employees, and the successful candidate will be committed to delivering our SLA’s and developing long term client relationships.

Role Responsibility

• To motivate and lead our catering and cleaning teams to perform their roles to their full potential and in alignment with Sodexo’s policies and procedures
• Championing a safe and healthy environment for our customers and employees
• Ensuring that all costs are within the agreed budgeted levels
• To maximise profitable sales by the introduction and maintenance of food service brands
• Monitoring and maintaining consistent methods of food preparation, production, presentation, and service for all meals ensuring they comply with Sodexo’s standard and procedures and meet the agreed specification of our contract.
• Conduct regular reviews of current operating costs, margins, controls, and menu costings to ensure Sodexo is achieving optimum profit.
• To understand and maintain the standards and integrity of the service offer and our SLA.
• To carry out a daily service audit and perform activities detailed in the service offer manual under Key Performance Indicators to the frequency and level required.
• Ensure financial documentation and accountancy of the unit (and those from suppliers) is accurate and within agreed budgeted levels.
• Comply with all Company and client policies, procedures, and statutory regulations, including human resources, site rules, health and safety, safe working practices, hygiene, cleanliness, fire, COSHH.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience gained from within the food services industry, ideally with a Hotel or Industrial Catering background
• Strong communication and client relationship management skills
• Able to manage budgets and achieve financial targets
• Experience of leading and developing a team to their full potential
• Ability to set and achieve standards and operate to performance criteria.
• Able to forward plan and enjoys being responsible for delivering targets

Desirable

• Food Safety training
• IOSH certificate or equivalent

Package Description

For your hard work and dedication we are offering a competitive salary of €50,000 - €60,000 per annum plus bonus and access to superb employee benefits

• Free GP service
• Bike to work scheme
• Life assurance
• Company pension scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Employee assistance program with counselling and life advice supports
• Family leave options
• Shopping vouchers

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