Regional Chef Manager
Company Shop Group
- Liverpool
- £35,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensure that all Health, Safety & Environmental policies and practises are upheld
- Lead, manage, deliver and develop Community Kitchen food and impact services
- Identify and develop new delivery partnerships in conjunction with CSG commercial department as a hook to stock acquisitions
- Implement projects related to food & food citizenship through a regional Chef Mentor team
- Represent Community Kitchen and present to a variety of audiences on impact work through Community Kitchen
- Contribute to the development of a commercial and entrepreneurial culture within the team and throughout the organisation
- Work in partnership with key delivery partners, supporting partner delivery, information flows, partner’s engagement with customers and team inputs
- To ensure that the Kitchen team deliver the impacts through the mentoring elements of What If Plan
- To ensure that the Hub and Kitchen team work together as one team supporting each other in the delivery of the impact programmes
- To work alongside the Head of Impact to understand food programmes informed by theory to informed practise which is transformative for communities
- To implement develop high quality training materials co-formulated with the Head of Impact
- To nurture, maintain and influence relationships with partners within the food & commercial sector
- Management of staff: to recruit and manage junior team members
- Engage your team both within your department and within other departments to support cross functional and positive working relationships; inclusive of the acquisition of stock to support Community Kitchens food service function
- Employ a supportive and high performing culture with consistent delivery, through excellent leadership and motivation, that fully utilises and develops your teams’ skills and capabilities
- Keep up to date with information relevant to your department and cascade this accordingly to your team
- Delivery of effective food service which is safe, compliant, innovative of inspiring
- Production of salient and informative precise/overviews of projects relevant to the impact work of Community Kitchen
- High standard effective communication with the executive team regarding evaluation of Community Kitchen
- Oversight, management, implementation of impact model
- The maintenance of a cost effective food service
- High level of internal collaboration with Regional Chef Mentor Team so as to support execution of Community Kitchen food service & impact model
- Written material of a high standard
- Lead by example and uphold Company Shop Group values at all times
- To be flexible and adaptable to support the needs of the business
- Solution focused mind-set; bringing solutions and opportunities
- A desire to continually focus on your own continued professional development
- Excellent people management skills particularly in the difficult setting of front-line health and social care delivery
- At least five years’ experience working within a community-based food development sector
- Good knowledge of community food paradigms
- Skilled in implementing high quality food service through a Chef Mentor team
- A track record of project management skills and excellent time management skills
- Ability to engage, communicate and build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at different levels
- Flexibility – Ability to manage a demanding and constantly changing workload in the context of complex change
- Strong interpersonal and wider relationship management skills, with a clear understanding of the challenges of building and retaining social change within communities through food
- Excellent, concise writing skills and the ability to communicate complicated ideas in simple terms
- Experienced in using new media as a vehicle for building awareness and generating
- Confident presenter and trainer
- Confident with Microsoft Office and Excel
- Able to travel around the UK (Driving Licence)
- Well-developed organisational and time management skills; high level of initiative
- High level attention to detail
- Ability to simultaneously coordinate multiple tasks and meet deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Free membership to Company Shop for you and 10 x nominees.
- Contributory pension scheme.
- Annual Flu Injections, High Street and Leisure discounts and on-site Parking.
- Subsidised staff Canteen, Free Tea & Coffee, and Free Fruit Friday
- Employee Assistance Programme – Grocery Aid.
- Eligible for Costco membership, Cycle 2 Work, and UK Fuel card discounts.
- Life assurance benefit