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Assistant Manager (Catering and Hospitality)

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Job Introduction

This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase and develop your supervisory/management skills within a prestigious Independent School. With an enthusiasm and passion for the catering and hospitality industry, you will support the team to continue its success of providing an efficient, innovative, high quality service to students, clients and customers on site.

In this role, you will support the management team to  coordinate an efficient and customer focussed front of house/back of house operation. This involves overseeing daily student feeding across breakfast, lunch and supper, plus functions, events and fine dining.


 

Role Responsibility

  • Support the management team to oversee the main dining operation, providing fresh food from scratch to up to 900 students and staff onsite; this includes 120 boarding students at dinner time.
  • Lead the organisation of high profile functions, dinners and hospitality, some of which may occur outside of normal working hours.
  • Lead the catering team to provide an efficient, 5 star service providing any training and coaching as required
  • Adopt a high profile front of house, hands on approach at service times.
  • Establish and maintain satisfactory relationships with individuals at all levels within the Company and the Client organisation.
  • Implement and maintain the Statutory and Company standards of hygiene, health and safety and take any action as is necessary within the catering department.
     

The Ideal Candidate

  • Previous catering/hospitality management experience, ideally obtained from a hotel or similar environment
  • Experience of supervising teams
  • Demonstrable background and knowledge of delivering high end services and food
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Flexible to manage events and functions outside of normal working hours
  • Passion for the food services industry

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.

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.

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