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Sodexo is seeking a Catering Manager at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV.

The catering manager's position oversees all aspects of premium catering in all athletic venues at WVU for Sodexo. This includes, but is not limited to suites, premium club areas, bars, and in-seat service areas. This candidate will manage all of the event day and non-event day catering functions throughout the year.

The successful candidate will:

• Possess strong sales knowledge and the ability to create catering guides;
• Ensure that Sodexo and customer goals are aligned and met;
• Educate and develop rapport with clients and promote partnerships;
• Maintain and improve service level resulting in increased customer satisfaction;
• Ensure all HAACP standards are followed; and/or
• Demonstrate resourcefulness and quick responsiveness to client and customer requests.
  

Is this opportunity right for you? We are looking for candidates who:

• Have a strong background in safety and sanitation compliance
• Prioritize tasks and exhibit flexibility to take on additional responsibilities as needed
• Extensive formal training in Catering services, with particular emphasis on customer service, event planning and presentation, and event management
• Strong focus on food quality and presentation as well as high-end catering experience
• Strong leadership skills, computer skills, culinary knowledge, and food/beverage cost controls.
• Technical competence in unit financial management, pricing, and menu development and will be responsible for the training and development of front-line hourly employees and managers.
• Superior interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and maintain professional, positive working relationships with multiple clients, liaisons, customers, employees, supervisors, and vendors.
• Exceptional time management skills and will be able to juggle multiple priorities
• Ability to enhance the learning environment on campus through world-class food service

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 career in food service management. With benefits including schedules that encourage work-life balance and continuing education opportunities, you’ll enjoy an improved quality of life that’s unique in the hospitality industry.

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.

Oversight of catering activities for a medium to large size location/unit with less than $1.5M in managed catering volume. Complex events with a high degree of hands on involvement in catering solutions. Large amount of high profile events. Strong client interaction.
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.
- 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 in order 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

Basic Education Requirement - Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
Basic Management Experience - 2 years
Basic Functional Experience – 1 year work experience in food or culinary services including restaurants, fast food, vending, catering services, institutional services, mall food courts, etc.

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