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Chef Manager

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Job Introduction

Are you a Chef looking to move into a managerial role?

Are you passionate in delivering high quality food?

Looking for a Monday to Friday role?

Sodexo Corporate Services are recruiting a Chef Manager who will manage a small catering team on our client site in Sheffield.

 

 

Role Responsibility

  • Manage the catering operation on behalf of Sodexo for our client and customers.
  • To work as part of a team ensuring high standards of food service, customer satisfaction and contract retention. To comply with Sodexo procedures, Health and safety and all legislative requirements.
  • Maximise customer satisfaction and help maintain a good working relationship with the site client representatives and customers.
  • To effectively manage and develop, undertake appropriate training and staff development.
  • To initiate, food policies, processes and procedures and ensure that all staff reporting to the function understand these, are trained in them and apply these procedures at all times.
  • To control and monitor the financial performance of the unit and to maintain costs within pre-budgeted targets. To be responsible for ordering materials, managing invoices, effective stock control mechanisms and collection of income in accordance with agreed policy
  • To establish and maintain satisfactory relationships with individuals at all levels within the business and the Client organisation
  • To ensure all current legislative requirements are met and appropriate systems are in place.
  • To ensure service standards and deliver as customer focussed service as per client KPI. To also be responsible for determining and delivering remedial action where the satisfaction level has not achieved target.
  • To recruit appropriate staff as required and ensure that contracts offered and deployment of staff meets operational needs. The post holder also ensures that all staff receives an appropriate induction and is responsible for all elements of their training including coaching.
     

The Ideal Candidate

  • It is essential that you have a pro-active attitude and can be flexible in relation to duties and working hours. The job also requires someone who can demonstrate that they have strong organisational and planning skills and have the ability to priorities and manage their time effectively
  • The candidate must be able to work effectively without close supervision and must possess good organisational skills.
  • The ability to communicate clearly is seen as essential
  • Experience of delivering financial targets
  • Experience of customer service and in particular customer relationship management
  • IT & systems literate, use of IT systems to provide/monitor data within the Quality Assurance and other management reporting systems

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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