Catering Manager

Schools’ Choice; Harlow; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A local leisure facility in Harlow seeks a Catering Manager to oversee operations at the café, soft play, and trampoline park. The role involves ensuring food safety, managing staff, and maintaining high standards of service quality. The ideal candidate should have prior managerial experience in hospitality and strong customer service skills. Benefit opportunities include discounts, pension, and personal development programs.

Benefits

High street and online discounts

Company Pension

24/7 employee assistance

Mental Health First Aiders

Recognition Scheme

Annual Awards

Refer a friend rewards

Personal Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Previous hospitality managerial experience is essential.
• Ability to ensure food safety compliance and drive innovation.
• Strong customer service and communication skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily operations of the café, soft play, and trampoline park.
• Ensure high standards of cleanliness and hygiene are maintained.
• Control costs for consumables and monitor food budgets.
• Communicate with clients to ensure a high level of service.

Skills

Hospitality managerial experience

Customer service skills

Communication skills

Decision-making skills

Adaptability

Job description

Catering Manager - Harlow Leisurezone

Permanent 37.5 hours per week

Up to £30k

We're looking for a Catering Manager to join our Harlow Leisure Centre! This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to make a difference and thrives in a challenging environment.

You will oversee the 3 managed operations at this facility, the Café, Soft play and Trampoline Park. Ensuring smooth operation to deliver great result for the demand.

The Role

As Catering Manager, you will help drive innovation, ensure food safety compliance and lead a team to provide nutritious meals for our customers. We are looking for colleagues with good time management skills, who can follow instructions, and enjoy working to high standards both independently while influencing overall service excellence.

Main Activities and Responsibilities:

• Communicating regularly with customers and clients to ensure a high level of service is being received.
• Supervision of the cafe including monitoring hygiene standards, staff training and all day-to-day operations of the kitchen and front of house.
• Administrative work, including placing orders, cash handling, stock control and monitoring of food budgets.
• Checking and recording the amount, price and condition of all food/non-food deliveries and taking any necessary action required.
• To take responsibility for the standards of cleanliness and hygiene of kitchen premises and equipment whilst maintaining sufficient stock levels of cleaning materials.
• Controlling costs for consumables and staff labour to ensure the business is profitable.

Skills and Experience:

• Previous hospitality managerial experience
• Great customer service and communication skills.
• The ability to make the best decisions with Vertas in mind.
• Listening and responding to colleagues, customers and suppliers to achieve the best outcome.
• The ability to adapt and respond to change in a growing organisation.

We want enthusiastic individuals with a positive working attitude to join our team of 4,000 colleagues across the UK. Vertas Group are an inclusive and equal opportunities employer who believe that our people power what we do. We aim to ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities in which it operates.

Benefits :
Non contractual benefits

• Lifeworks high street and online discounts
• Company Pension
• WeCare 24/7 employee assistance including remote GP and counselling
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Vertas Finest Recognition Scheme
• Annual Making the Difference Awards
• Refer a friend rewards
• Personal Development opportunities including Aspire to Inspire and self led learning

Apply now!