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Deputy Catering Manager ** Maternity Cover**

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

Job Introduction

We currently have an opportunity for a **Maternity Cover** Deputy Catering Manager to join our team at an Independent school, in Woldingham, Surrey. This is a great opportunity for a customer focused individual to join a world leading food and facilities management company, which can offer unrivalled opportunities for career progression. The school is a 30 minute walk from Woldingham train station or there is room for car parking on site.

Role Responsibility

  • Effectively manage the Sodexo team in the manager’s absence to ensure that exemplary services are provided at the school.
  • Manage resources and promote an ethos of team work and to instil a culture of continuous improvement.
  • To be responsible for the service at the school leading a management team to ensure delivering against Key Performance Indicators.
  • Act as the primary representative of Sodexo within the contract by the effective management of all Managers to ensure the delivery of both qualitative and quantitative results
  • Foster long term profitable relationships with the schools to maintain existing business and identify new business opportunities by delivering operational excellence
  • Provide direction and expertise to the operating teams by promoting Sodexo strategies and best business practices in order to uphold the Company mission and values
  • Motivate and lead a high performing team to achieve their objectives
 

Manage all aspects of service planning and execution for Marden Enterprise to include Weddings, Hospitality Events and residential groups.

The Ideal Candidate

  • Experience of catering management
  • Experience of working within an independent education environment
  • Experience of change management  
  • Hold a personal license – Desirable
  • Assertive and Influential
  • Decisive
  • Flexibility
  • Self-Motivated
 

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.

Those applying for roles with us who meet the essential criteria advertised under the ‘ideal candidate’ on the vacancy advertised are guaranteed to progress within the selection process.

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