Kitchen Compliance and Admin Manager

Job Introduction

Are you an experienced admin with a great attention to detail and excellent organisation skills? Perhaps you have a background in contract catering and/or school environment? We want to hear from you!

Due to increased business needs we are looking for a Kitchen Compliance and Admin Manager to join our team at Hurstpierpoint College in Hassocks. Huge focus of this role will be on document compliance, particularly in the Health & Safety and Food safety space. You would support the management team with all mandatory training, administration and compliance of allergen processes as well as aligning with Sodexo policies and procedures.

We offer a salary of £25,000, great working environment, Sodexo employee benefits and excellent professional development and progression opportunities within the company.

Role Responsibility

• Provide administration support for the Executive Chef and Catering Manager
• Provide general administration support as required including photocopying, managing emails, catering bookings, answering the phone.
• Placing orders with key supplier and following up with any supplier issues including incorrect deliveries and non-delivery of items 
• To maintain an efficient and auditable system for all additional catering requests by the school booking system including completing and documenting costs.
• To maintain updates of documents held within the Health and Safety/ Food Safety file management system, to include monitoring of frequency planner and archiving
• To complete all weekly/monthly/termly audits as per frequency planner
• To ensure that all external correspondence is written in professional manner, compliant with Sodexo guidelines and sent in an appropriate format within agreed time limits to meet deadlines
• Support with the monthly stock take. 
• Ensure confidentiality and timelines are adhered to all times
• Logging information onto spread sheets and producing weekly/ monthly reports as directed by Senior management
• Carry out all site-based audits in line with Sodexo policies and procedures
• Update and maintenance of Employee notice boards

The Ideal Candidate

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal communications 
• Well organised, responsive, and able to work under pressure
• Experience in using Microsoft Office packages including Excel
• Experience in using online internal systems
• A flexible ‘Can do’ attitude
• Flexible approach to support operations if required.
• Good standard of English language, literacy and numeracy. 
• Ideally have a good understanding of safeguarding children requirements within the school environment

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. This role 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.

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