Job Description

Sodexo have an exciting opportunity for a Catering Manager to join our team in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

This role is responsible for managing our catering teams, front of house delivery, cafe and retail offerings and plays a vital role within our team.

Our ideal candidate will have fantastic people skills, will be able to demonstrate proven experience within a similar role and have excellent attention to detail.

Our wealth of experience partnering Government Agencies means we are able to transfer best practices from the corporate sector to create better working environments in the public sector. We bring services that increase employee engagement, wellbeing and productivity to the public sector to help support government to deliver on its promised outcomes while reducing costs. Our goal is to improve service outcomes and increase overall value to the taxpayer.

Role Responsibility

• Manage catering in all kitchens
• Manage front of house delivery throughout all messes
• Manage delivery of the Caf\xc3\xa9 retail offer
• Support the running of mess bars in relation to functions
• Manage delivery of all hospitality, functions and events including billing
• Drive on site catering performance
• Conduct performance reviews and development plans for all of your direct reports
• Stand in for GM\'s absence with client meetings and site management
• To promote and manage functions including planning, menus and costing
• Plan, organise and coordinate all catering activity
• Ensure standards of service detailed in the service level agreement and within the schedules of the contractual terms and conditions are achieved, maintained and developed
• Grow services in order to meet client and commercial expectations whilst maintaining strict budgetary control in line with client and Sodexo expectations
• Continually monitor all food standards and hygiene standards and ensure they are maintained at the highest level
• Maintain excellent client/customer relationships
• Attend team briefs, huddles and meetings as required
• Attend your performance development review to discuss job standards and agree development activities
• Maintain a clean and tidy work area at all times

The Ideal Candidate

• Demonstrate experience of working in a similar role within the service industry at a comparable level in a company
• Good numerical and communication skills, must be able to demonstrate effective verbal and written communication
• Management knowledge of health & safety and food safety
• Able to work on own initiative within a team environment
• Able to demonstrate working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Proven experience in hospitality sector, including stock management, cash control and customer service
• Able to demonstrate attention to detail and adherence to standards
• Analyse problems analytically, develop opportunities and implement innovative solutions

Package Description

Up to \xc2\xa330,000 plus benefits

Full time - Monday - Friday

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

All offers are subject to security clearance checks

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over \xc2\xa31bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their age, disability, gender, transgender, marital or family status, race or ethnicity, religious belief of sexual orientation are welcome to and included within our 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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