Catering Cluster Manager

The role

The University of Bristol has an opportunity for an experienced and multi-skilled hospitality & catering manager to lead a diverse team across its cafes & bar retail outlets. The role will suit someone who has experience managing multiple catering/F&B outlets as well as activations.

What will you be doing?

You will oversee a team of Assistant Managers, Supervisors, Head Chefs, kitchen staff and catering assistants across our bar & cafes as well as various pop-ups to deliver a great experience to our students, university staff and other customers. You will be a consistent manager providing encouragement and guidance to your team, organising schedules and delivering great events and working closely with key people to deliver our sustainability and commercial goals.

This is a high profile role in the university and you’ll rely on your people skills to develop great relationships across departments and with the senior leadership.

You should apply if

• Extensive experience and knowledge of catering and hospitality food service, coupled with experience in a similar role including events.
• Great communicator and able to care for and develop your team.
• Highly organised with excellent computer literacy skills including operating knowledge of Microsoft office and the ability to understand and use other software packages.
• Experience in writing budgets and understanding P&L.
• Hold a personal Licence.
• Hold the relevant qualifications in food safety and health & safety.

Additional information

For informal queries about the role, please contact tim.clarke@bristol.ac.uk

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on Tuesday 18th February 2025.

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