Catering Manager
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 08 Hydref 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £50,000.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 06 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Clane, Kildare, SW1A 1AA |
| Cwmni: | Sodexo Ltd |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | SDX/TP/2322703/148903 |
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Catering Manager
Location: Clane, Co. Kildare
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: €50,000 per annum + Sodexo Benefits
About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Catering Manager to lead the catering operations at Clongowes Wood College, a prestigious 7-day-per-week boarding school. This is an exciting opportunity to manage a high-profile contract, overseeing a dedicated team of 30 client staff, and ensuring the delivery of exceptional food and service standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the catering operation, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality food and customer service.
- Oversee all financial aspects of the contract, including budgeting, cost control, and reporting.
- Maintain safe and compliant working practices across all areas of operation.
- Recruit, train, motivate, and develop staff to deliver excellence and ensure strong team engagement.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with the client and other stakeholders, ensuring service levels and KPIs are achieved.
- Drive performance improvement and seek opportunities for business growth within the contract.
- Represent Sodexo at client meetings and ensure full compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Support innovation and ensure food quality, presentation, and service standards align with Sodexo’s brand and values.
About You
- 2–3 years of leadership or supervisory experience, ideally in catering, hospitality, or contract management.
- Strong financial acumen and commercial awareness.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and team-building skills.
- Proven ability to manage teams effectively and deliver outstanding customer service.
- Relevant qualifications such as HND in Hospitality Management or a related field (vocational qualifications an advantage).
Why Sodexo?:
Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.
Belong in a company and team that values you for you.
Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.
Thrive in your own way.
We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:
- Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
- Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
- Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular high street retailers (also open to friends and family)
- Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
- Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
- Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
- Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies
A little more about Sodexo:
At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all.As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer.We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.
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 run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.
Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.
Ready to be part of something greater?
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