Food Retail Location Manager- Western Carolina University

Aramark - Cullowhee, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Cullowhee, NC

Food Services and Drinking Places

About the position

This management position is responsible for developing and executing dining solutions that meet customer needs and preferences. The role involves overseeing dining operations where customers order prepared food from a menu, ensuring safety and sanitation standards, and maintaining effective client and customer relationships.

Responsibilities

• Leverages Aramark's coaching model to engage and develop team members to their fullest potential
• Ensures individual and team performance meets objectives and client expectations
• Ensures safety and sanitation standards in all operations
• Maintains effective client and customer rapport for mutually beneficial business relationships
• Identifies client needs and communicates operational progress
• Ensures the completion and maintenance of profit and loss statements
• Delivers client and company financial targets
• Adopts all Aramark processes and systems, understands performance metrics, data, order and inventory trends; educates teams on key levers to improve margins
• Creates value through efficient operations, appropriate cost controls, and profit management
• Complies with the Operational Excellence fundamentals by meeting and maintaining food and labor initiatives
• Ensures entire team is trained and able to execute
• Supervises team regarding production, quality and control
• Maintains a safe and healthy environment for clients, customers and employees
• Primarily responsible for food service at an assigned retail food location
• Assists manager in establishing and maintaining systems and procedures for the ordering, receiving, storing, preparing and serving of food & related products, as well as menu planning & development
• Ensures that requirements for appropriate sanitation and safety levels in respective areas are met
• Directly supervises two or more employees with responsibility for hiring, discipline, performance reviews and initiating pay increases
• Assists in location forecast and accounting
• Conducts period inventory; performs other functions such as maintaining records to comply with ARAMARK, government and accrediting agency standards
• Coordinates activities with other internal departments
• Interfaces with vendors and key service users within client organization
• Manages Front of House (Cafeteria, Food Court, Quick Service) dining operations
• Develops and implements retail services plans to improve service, quality and profitability of service areas
• Maintains effective working relationships with other departments to provide a unified retail experience for customers

Requirements

• Requires at least 4 years of experience
• Requires 1-3 years of experience in a management role
• Previous experience in retail required
• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Strong communication skills
• Requires occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 50 lb.
• Must be able to stand for extended periods of time
• Ability to demonstrate excellent customer service using Aramark's standard service model