Catering and Hospitality Manager

Package Description

Salary is up to £30,000 per annum with an excellent flexible benefits package

Working Pattern – 7am to 4pm Monday – Friday with some flexibility

Job Introduction

We believe food is central to creating an engaging workplace experience, our Modern recipe food offering is a contemporary, all-day offering that transforms workplace canteens into vibrant assets that encourage wellbeing, loyalty and collaboration.

This exciting role is a fantastic opportunity for an individual to join our high performing and innovative team as a Catering Manager.

You will be passionate about food and hospitality and want to make a real difference in people’s working day. You will be responsible for the restaurant, vending and our coffee shop you will also manage our new click and collect app service we have recently developed bringing healthy, nutritious and delicious food to our customers safely.

We work really closely with our client and you must be able to build strong working relationships with them to be able to work collaboratively and meet expectations.

For more details on Sodexo’s Modern Recipe offering please watch this video!

Main Responsibilities

• Provide a first class catering service for our client, being an ambassador for our Modern Recipe Food offering
• To provide innovation across our restaurants, coffee shops and vending options.
• To manage, train and develop the on site catering team
• Responsible for stock taking and managing new deliveries
• Be responsible for a clean and hygienic work area through the management of your team

The Ideal Candidate

• Previous experience in a similar role such as corporate catering, high street restaurant or retail food offering would be perfect!
• An excellent relationship builder – you will have a lot of interaction with our client and customers so this is key!
• Good IT skills (Have used Microsoft packages before and be able to pick up any new systems quickly)
• A real team player – we are a strong, high performing and innovative team who pride themselves on the service we deliver.
• An excellent people manager- we want you to inspire and develop our catering employees to be the best they can be!

**Full job description with responsibilities is attached below**

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 £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.

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 race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

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.