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Catering Manager

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Job Introduction

Are you a Catering manager with a passion for delivering high quality service?

Sodexo Corporate Services are recruiting a Catering Manager to join our client site in Swindon.

As Catering Manager, you will plan, organise and coordinate all catering activity, ensuring service delivery excellence.


You'll provide leadership and clear direction to your team, ensuring they are motivated and engaged, and that they understand how their contribution impacts on the business.

 

 

 

Role Responsibility

  • Manage the on-site contract and services to the agreed standards, ensuring that deadlines and targets are achieved
  • Maximise the profitability of the contract and manage costs effectively
  • Act as the operational interface between the client(s) and the account Manager/director (or equivalent)
  • Manage the onsite client and Sodexo services and teams to deliver the agreed SLA and standards, acting as Sodexo primary representative on site
  • Provide direction and expertise to the operating area by promoting Sodexo strategies and best business practices in order to uphold the company mission and values
  • Ensure that statutory requirements and company policies and procedures are followed and deadlines are met
  • Build long-term relationships with client(s) that add value and are based on mutual trust
  • Lead, develop, manage and motivate a high performing team to the agreed standards ensuring that the client receives services of the highest quality
  • Support the account manager/director (or equivalent) in the development of business strategy in line with current and emerging client needs
  • Contribute to and maintain sector and account development plans, as well as supporting the change management process and associated Service Levels Agreements (SLAs) ensuring risks are mitigated
  • Drive innovation and continuous improvement of people, systems, processes and services
  • Support the business development and regional management  teams to identifying opportunities with other clients to maximise profit and growth
     

The Ideal Candidate

  • Previous experience of operational management in a similar Pharma environment and a contract of a similar size and scope of services
  • People management experience – especially large teams operating across different shifts and services
  • Ability to interpret and utilise financial and commercial information
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Achieve set, standards and operate to performance criteria; for example health and safety, hygiene
  • Manage multiple workloads and shifting priorities
  • Proven ability to work in a partnership and collaborative way with other service providers
  • Positive approach to learning in role and identifying own training needs as appropriate
  • Self motivated and able to work on own initiative within a team environment
  • IOSH qualification
  • Experience of delivering training
     

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

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