KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Catering operation
Lead with menu development and the preparation, cooking and presentation of a high-quality food and drink offer.
Ensure compliance with health and safety, food hygiene, food allergen, licensing and environmental health standards, completing all related record-keeping.
Accountable for cost-effective stock management, ordering, storage and wastage control.
Visitor experience
Offer excellent customer service and ensure all members of the catering team do the same.
Support property-wide targets for completion of visitor surveys to understand more about our visitors.
Act as one of our duty manager team, responsible for ensuring a safe and smooth visitor operation, opening/closing the visitor centre, addressing issues and emergency procedure and providing relief cover, as required.
People management
Supervise the activities of a team of permanent and seasonal Visitor Service Assistants (VSAs), achieving excellent staff performance and motivation through effective induction, training, task-setting and coaching on front and back-of-house routines.
Prepare catering rotas and holiday allocation to meet business needs.
Work closely with specialist advisory colleagues, i.e. our Trust-wide Catering Development team.
Finance Management
Share responsibility for achieving an F&B budget of around £400,000 a year.
Monitor commercial performance and adjust activities to capitalize on sales opportunities and run a cost-effective catering operation.
Supervise daily café till operations and perform end-of-day income reconciliation as a duty manager.
Assist the F&B Manager with menu costing and stock-taking.
Performance indicators and targets
Weekly, monthly and annual sales and cost of sales targets
Food compliance standards and record-keeping
Visitor enjoyment reviews and ratings from visitor surveys and visitor feedback
Staff satisfaction from staff surveys
Tools / equipment / systems
Access to laptop and relevant online people management, training, financial monitoring and stock ordering systems, including NTS intranet and Microsoft 365.
EPOS tills and chip and pin machines.
Fully equipped commercial catering kitchens.