Job Title: Area Manager – Primary Schools Catering
Hours: 40 hours - Monday-Friday
Contract: Term Time only plus two weeks (40 working weeks, 45.6 paid weeks)
Location: Bedford, Huntingdon and Cambridge
Salary: Competitive

THE JOB:

We are looking for a new Area Manager to join our East Anglia Team. You will be working in partnership with our schools in and around Bedford, Huntingdon and Cambridge. You need to understand the benefits of working closely with the onsite catering teams and empowering, rewarding and recognising each of their teams.
We need you to be an experienced manager having previously worked in contract catering, ideally within the education market and have multi-site management experience. Craft-trained candidates very welcome.

• Working with staff teams to encourage ‘self-management’
• To ensure high levels of communication with all stakeholders (students, parents, teachers, governors and local communities)
• Work with schools and our development chefs to deliver a fabulous choice of food, where there is always something delicious available for every student
• To propose and run added value initiatives (cookery lessons, theme days, taster sessions, pupil surveys, school councils, barbecues, picnics, recycling, waste reduction strategies)
• Provide initiatives to showcase quality and choice of food on offer and to encourage uptake and satisfaction
• To lead on recruitment for your schools
• As required work with each school to provide breakfasts, after-school snacks, hospitality and holiday club catering.
• Lead on training and compliance within your schools
• Provide detailed, written, monthly performance and satisfaction reports for each school
• Set and manage school and company budgets
• Strategic management to drive financial performance and improvement whilst enhancing the student experience and client satisfaction level
• Be fully accountable for the schools assigned to you
• Manager human resources within your team with support from the central human resources team
• Lead on retention of your schools and support on new business