GLL is looking for National Catering Manager, to work across all GLL venues nationally. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a National Catering Manager, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a National Catering Manager job, it's a career.
The Role of the National Catering Manager is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all catering operations across GLL centres nationally. Ensuring that quality is delivered consistently, compliance with food safety standards, and alignment with GLL’s and customer expectations. The National catering Manager will focus on menu development, cost control, staff training and supplier relation management to maximise customer and client satisfaction and profitability.
What you’ll do:
Strategic product development and support for all aspects of catering across GLL
Management of corporate suppliers to the value of £3 million PA
Overseeing the mobilisation of new catering outlets for GLL
To ensure and promote our ethical & social status
Increasing business opportunities through various routes to market
Monitoring performance & motivating teams to reach targets
Training & development of staff
Assist in the recruitment of key staff
Working across a number of departments within GLL to create cohesion
Keeping up to date with competitors products & business trends
Reporting to Senior Managers
What you need:
- A relevant degree or equivalent and appropriate professional
- Knowledge of key performance indicators in the catering industry and their application and how they can be used to effect improvement.
- Up to date knowledge of developments in the catering industry.
- Willingness to promote the EO Policy and Health & Safety Policy and a practical awareness of how to promote them.
As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!
The basics:
This is a Fixed Term contact working 40 hours per week.
We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry leading rates of pay
We can offer a career, not just a job with extensive Learning & development support available.
A uniform will be supplied and must be worn
GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in.
As a staff owned organisation you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and t have a stake in your business
Additionally GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits
Access to a pension scheme.
Health Assurance and access to Counselling services
Access to the tax efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.
Free annual eye tests
Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!
GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:
The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you
Access to team building and fun events such as Treks, Concerts outings etc
Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet
About GLL:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries, and children’s centres. Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area. One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we are having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.
We offer two different types of work arrangements:
A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool
If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.
So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.
Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.
However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.
We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.
All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.
To be shortlisted for the role, internal applicants will need to demonstrate their commitment to GLL by becoming a Society member where eligible.