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

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, 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.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

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.