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Salary We're currently recruiting a dedicated Food & Beverage Manager to help ensure the smooth running of the operations in Universities on a full time basis, contracted to 37.5 hours per week.
As a Food & Beverage Manager, you will use your skills to maintain a high standard of quality work. In return, you will have the chance to progress your career with a company that invests in its people, celebrates individuality, and rewards and recognises employees who go beyond the plate.
We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- Free meals
- Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more
- Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
- Quick access for you and your immediate family to a Digital GP, and wider healthcare benefits
- Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
- Regular emails filled with the best discounts and savings available
- Receive cash rewards every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
- Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
- You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families
- Contributory pension scheme
- Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes
Could you bring your spark to Universities? Here's what you need to know before applying:
Your key responsibilities will include:
- As a F&B Manager you will be managing the day to day operation with a hands-on approach you will build strong relationship with the business owner and key stakeholders.
- Ability to identify sales opportunities and exploit them.
- A strong focus on developing a core team, and full responsibility for managing a large variable team.
- Reviewing standards and processes and improving where required and making sure we meet out require set standards
- Strong attention to detail within all aspects of catering and hospitality
- Innovation and creativity with menu plans
- Delivering on KPI agreed with the client
- Assisting of P&L and Budgetary achievements, an understanding of cost vs revenue.
- This is a commercial contract, your main focus will be to maximise sales and profitability
- Driving and growing profit through strategic planning
- Excellent commercial understanding and creative ideas to increase business
- Being fully responsible for all health & safety and food safety
- Stakeholder and client management - building strong and robust relationships
- Detail conscious
- Able to work efficiently with Microsoft Word and Excel.
Our ideal Food & Beverage Manager will:
- Proven experience of running high volume restaurant catering.
- Proven experience of planning & running functions / weddings / events
- Strong commercial skills
- Ability to identify sales opportunities and exploit them
- Ability to manage a profit and loss account – this is not a cost plus business. Comfortable with finances
- Ability to motivate a team and develop training plans as required.
- Able to work efficiently with Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Strong communicator as they will work closely with the client and need to motivate the team.
- Formal qualification is non-essential but you need to be detail conscious
Part of Compass Group UK&I, Chartwells is the leading provider of catering and support services to the education sector. For over a quarter of a century Chartwells has been focusing on helping those in education to build strong bodies, sharp minds and lead long healthy lives. Every week, Chartwells serves millions of nutritious and delicious meals to pupils and students in primary and secondary schools, academies, independent schools, colleges and universities across the UK.
Job Reference: com/1701/94359001/52616794/WJ
Compass Group UK&I wants everyone in our business to feel able to be themselves at work and to have an equal opportunity to progress their career. We want to create a culture where we respect and embrace everyone's talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities. Where our colleagues feel valued, can reach their full potential, and thrive - Diversity is Our Strength!
