Senior Catering Manager Fulltime

Unit Description

Inspire students through food, and teach them what’s possible through sustainable resources.

Sodexo is seeking a Catering Manager at the Howard University in Washington, DC.

Sodexo is seeking a Senior Catering Manager for Howard University located in Washington, D.C. At Howard University, you’ll have the opportunity to reshape and elevate our entire catering department. You’ll leave a legacy by driving positive change and setting new standards for service excellence. Engage directly with key stakeholders, including political delegates, celebrities, and distinguished figures, ensuring their events are nothing short of extraordinary. This is your chance to make a profound impact at one of the nation’s most historic institutions. Come make history at the number one premier HBCU in the country, as a game changer and a thought leader!

Key Duties
• Oversight of Sodexo resources, recipes, systems, and use of catering programs to direct daily catering events including; food production, inventory, product deliveries, invoices, and procurement operations.
• Oversight of the sales process for catering and/or conference services. Works with client and customers to design events.
• Contribute to account revenue and operating profit contribution through the implementation of services and the creation of growth opportunities.
• Plan projects, including defining objectives, methods, timetables, and budget to support client and Sodexo’s strategic plan.
• Ensures employees have appropriate equipment, supplies, and resources to perform their job and meet goals, cost controls, and deadlines as assigned.
• Establishes and maintains a safe work environment including both food and physical safety to comply with all regulatory and Sodexo standards in various environments. Drives the zero-harm mindset.
• Complies with budget requirements by controlling costs (i.e. labor, inventory, equipment, materials) and making adjustments when necessary
• Supervises employees by delegating, assigning, and prioritizing activities, and monitoring operating standards.

Sodexo offers a full array of benefits including paid time off, holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K, and access to ongoing training and development programs, tuition reimbursement, plus health and wellness programs.

Working for Sodexo: At Sodexo, you will find the ingredients for a great culinary career. With benefits including schedules that encourage work-life balance, reimbursement of association dues, and continuing education opportunities, you’ll enjoy an improved quality of life that’s unique in the hospitality industry.

What We Offer

Sodexo offers fair and equitable compensation, partially determined by a candidate’s education level or years of relevant experience. While the budgeted range for the position is posted, Sodexo salary offers are based on a candidate’s specific criteria, like experience, skills, education and training.

Qualifications & Requirements

Basic Education Requirement – Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Basic Management Experience – 3 years

Basic Functional Experience – 3 years of experience in catering, food production, or food service management or a related field

Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.

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