Area Support Manager

Overview

Due to continued business growth an exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced Operations Support Managers to join our team. Geographically, you will support the operations manager across their portfolio of sites.

You will need multisite management experience, a passion for food and service and craft skills to support in the kitchen when needed.

• Manage, inspire, and engage the teams.
• Understand, track, and manage the schools' restaurant profit contribution to the business, being conscious of our food and service offering and client expectations.
• Meet with clients and stakeholders to build effective relationships, gain trust, and drive our shared goal of feeding more students, better food.
• You will have managed at least 4 sites; managing and guiding the chef managers with the day-to-day running of the site as well as building excellent client relationships.
• A chef by trade and still be happy to be in the kitchen when needed.
• You will be comfortable conversing at all levels, from the kitchen to the board room.
• You will also be self-motivated, resilient, and highly organised; with an understanding of how to prioritise effectively.
• You won't be afraid of the Office suite and will be a dab hand at producing spreadsheets and presentations to show how well you're doing.
• Experience as an operations-focused contract catering professional who likes to stay involved with food.

Welcome to IFG, we are one of the fastest growing education catering companies in the country and were recently awarded Education Caterer of the year at the Food service Catey Awards.

Are you an experienced contract catering Operations Support Manager who still likes to be involved with Food?

Do you want to be part of a growing business with an industry-leading social impact agenda?

We're not going to bore you with a long list of empty adjectives, we want one simple thing: awesome people to help us feed more children better food.

52 weeks per year (25 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays).

• Pay: £40,000 per year plus car allowance of £3,840 per year (paid monthly).
• Benefits:
  Bonus potential of up to 10% (Discretionary) of salary based on performance, free meals on shift, uniform, pension and other great company benefits, there are loads of free qualifications and career development opportunities, and a staff discount scheme at over 850 retailers.
• We also run monthly opportunities for the best teams to win shopping vouchers.