District Manager

Apploi; New Jersey; On-site; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401K

PTO Time

Gas Card-ezpass-car allowance

Job summary

Apploi in United States (New Jersey) seeks a District Manager to oversee multi-unit food service operations, directing a team of directors to ensure sanitation, compliance, and high resident satisfaction. Travel to assigned locations is required.

Key responsibilities include recruiting and training directors, enforcing budgets, conducting sanitation inspections, and driving improvements while maintaining strong relationships with facility administration and staff.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years proven leadership experience in multi-unit settings.
• Experience in healthcare food service operations.
• Excellent communication skills with emphasis on client relationships and employee engagement.
• Current CDM and ServSafe certifications.
• Strong knowledge of food cost, sanitation, production, and presentation.

Responsibilities

• Recruits, trains, and onboards new directors and staff within established timeframes.
• Conducts weekly sanitation inspections with directors and assigns corrective actions.
• Communicates expectations and ensures accountability of directors and staff.
• Oversees spending, food procurement and ensures budget compliance.
• Troubleshoots and addresses day-to-day operational issues and admin concerns.
• Ensures corporate compliance through reporting and required inspections.
• Maintains regular communication with Directors via calls and TEAMS.
• Ensures adherence to all regulatory standards at facility, local, state, and federal levels.
• Maintains relationships with facility administration and attends one-on-one meetings with DON or admin on site.
• Promotes growth and development of Directors through goal setting and follow-up.
• Maintains presentable professional appearance and participates in events.
• Interacts with residents to gather feedback and improve satisfaction.
• Performs other duties as assigned by regional manager and VP.

Skills

Leadership experience

Team management

Communication skills

Client relationship building

Employee engagement

Education

CDM certification

ServSafe certification

Job description

JOB SUMMARY:

Under the direction of the Regional Operations Manager, the District Manager will manage and direct the operation of multi-unit assigned accounts. The district manager will oversee a team of food service directors to ensure meets a service of excellence through sanitation, corporate compliance, and resident satisfaction.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Recruits, Trains, and Onboards new directors and staff within established timeframes.
• Conducts, with the directors, weekly sanitation inspections and assigns Plan of Correction (POC) within timeframe for completion. Performs follow-up and direction with POC development and sustained corrective actions.
• Communicate expectations and ensure accountability of directors and staff.
• Oversees spending, food procurement and ensures established budget compliance.
• Troubleshoots and addresses day-to-day operational issues and those voiced by administration.
• Ensures corporate compliance through WhatsApp participation, weekly accounting reports, census reports, test trays and scheduled in-services.
• Maintains regular communication with Directors of assigned accounts through conference calls and TEAMS Meetings.
• Ensures adherence to all Facility, Local, State and Federal Regulations.
• Maintains excellent relationships with facility administration and department employees. Initiate one-on-one meetings with DON or admin when on site.
• Promotes professional growth and development of Directors through establishing goals, monitors execution and performs follow up.
• Maintains a presentable and professional work attire including name tag.
• Attends Resident council, food committee and other onsite food related events.
• Interacts with residents to build trust, gather feedback and improve satisfaction.
• Performs other duties as assigned by regional manager and VP.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 5 years proven leadership experience in multi-unit setting.
• Experience in the healthcare food service operations.
• Excellent communication skills with a strong emphasis on client relationship building and employee engagement.
• Current CDM and Serv-safe Certification.
• Strong knowledge of current food trends with a focus on quality, production, sanitation, food cost and plate presentation.
• Knowledge of P&L accountability and contract-managed service experience desirable.
• Must be forward thinking and intitiative-thinking
• Covid Vaccine, Physical exam and PPD test required.

BENEFITS

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• 401K
• PTO Time
• Gas Card-ezpass-car allowance

Travel: Mandatory travel to assigned locations but not limited to. Additional travel may be requested by Regional Manager