As a Regional Chef Manager, you will lead a regional Chef Mentor team and manage the development of Community Kitchen food service & impact programme, the What If Plan. The role involves ensuring the safety & due diligence of our Community Kitchens, engagement with industry bodies, business development, new programme identification and development, customer relationship management, consultancy, public speaking, strengthening our commercial partnerships and marketing.
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- 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
