Chef Manager

Job Introduction

We are currently recruiting an organised, enthusiastic Chef Manager with excellent communication skills to support the catering operation across 3 messes (hospitality including food and beverage) at site in Colchester Essex.

As Chef Manager, you'll support all catering activity, ensuring service delivery excellence. You'll provide leadership and clear direction to the teams, ensuring they are motivated and engaged and that they understand how their contribution impacts the business.

Frustrated working split shifts, long 12-hour days every day and then working every weekend and bank holidays? We believe in quality of life not only for our clients, but our people too! We also offer free parking on site and subsidised meals along with the benefits listed above. This is a great opportunity to deliver and improve the quality of life to those we serve, as the site is not only their workplace but also their home.

If you have a passion for innovation and enjoy managing and supporting a team - this may just be the role for you!

Role Responsibility

• To support all catering activity across the messes
• Manage, develop and inspire the management of the existing team to ensure a high quality service is delivered, providing coaching and training when required
• To ensure standards of service detailed in the service level agreement and within the schedules of the contractual terms and conditions are achieved, maintained and developed
• To grow services in order to meet client and commercial expectations whilst maintaining strict budgetary control in line with client and Sodexo expectations
• Continually monitor all food standards and hygiene standards and ensure they are maintained at the highest level
• To drive catering performance through adherence to all promotional activity and marketing initiatives
• Contribute to gross profit and improvements to budget performance as determined by segment business objectives
• Ensure operational excellence within your area of responsibility for labour management and performance
• Develop and maintain a positive internal and external network
• Ensure wastage targets are met and maintained in line with set Company standards

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience of managing a team to deliver service excellence
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate at all levels
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Management knowledge of health & safety and food safety
• Food safety qualification equivalent to CIEH level 3
• Proficient with Microsoft office and good financial awareness
• Personal innovation and passion for quality food

Package Description

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, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance 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 some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

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.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.