Job Description
Area Manager
Contract: Education
Location: London
Hours of work: 40
Contract Type: Permanent
Join our dynamic team as an Area Manager and embark on an exhilarating journey where you will be at the forefront of managing a diverse range of Client/Customer sites! Picture yourself overseeing an area encompassing up to £1.5m per annum turnover or an impressive portfolio of approximately 12-16 schools.
Job Description
As an Area Manager, you will be the driving force behind the day-to-day operations, leading a talented team of Catering Managers and Cleaning Supervisors. Your expertise and guidance will ensure exceptional service quality, unwavering consistency, and strict adherence to compliance standards across all teams under your leadership.
Your role will extend beyond operational excellence. You will collaborate closely with our Operations Manager, playing a crucial part in delivering robust profit and loss accounts. Together, we will forge strong and enduring relationships with our valued customers and dedicated staff, fostering a sense of camaraderie and shared success.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a passion for creating exceptional experiences, and possess a natural ability to inspire and motivate teams, then this is the perfect opportunity to elevate your career. Join us now and be part of a vibrant organization that values innovation, growth, and the pursuit of excellence!
Key Responsibilities
- Health and Safety compliance. Actively and positively implement and promote Health and Safety initiatives involving your team at all stages
- Ensure compliance to all food development process and procedures
- Ensure your area team are briefed and compliant with the Food Policies (i.e. cultural, religious, ethnic, allergies, special diets)
- Build and maintain strong relationships and develop effective two-way communication with Clients, and other stakeholders providing regular feedback to your Line Manager
- Adopt and maintain a people-focussed management approach and to ensure leadership principles and values are always practiced
- Ensure you manage people considerately, considering the Company’s equal opportunities/diversity policies
- Ensure understanding and compliance with Company P&C policy and procedures where applicable
Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications
- Positive pro-active attitude
- High energy and drive to deliver beyond expectations
- High level focus on the achievement of targeted results
- High level of flexibility and a positive attitude to innovation and change
- Eye for detail ensuring compliance on contract, SLA and legislation
- A minimum 1 years’ experience as an Area Manager in school catering or equivalent, or the potential to develop with additional training and development
- Excellent communications skills and willingness to share knowledge, experience and best practice with others
The Company
ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.
Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.
We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace
ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.
ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.
If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team on 0330 311 2739
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 112268