Job Description

Aramark Healthcare+ is searching for a General Manager of Food Service to oversee the Food Department and all Food Related Operations for a large, acute care facility in Fort Lauderdale, FL. As a General Manager you will plan, manage, and guide multiple contracted services for a client normally generating $2-15M+ in revenue to meet operating and financial goals, client objectives, and customer needs.

Our General Managers are capable operations managers who lead a team to provide excellent service to our clients. With knowledge of the client?s business, positive relationship building skills, financial savvy, and a focus on safety, our team makes a difference every day.

Job Responsibilities

• Delivers strong operational performance by executing against Aramark Healthcare and regulatory agency standards and programs, continually monitoring operations, and completing assessments and necessary action plans to provide optimal food quality and meal service, and drive patient and customer satisfaction.
• Ensures compliance to food safety, sanitation, and overall workplace safety standards.
• Interacts with Client Management and maintains effective client and customer relations at all levels of client organization, including conducting rounding. Identifies Aramark service expansion opportunities.
• Provides overall direction and manages performance for all Food Service Managers, Supervisors and front line employees, ensuring employee development, engagement and compliance with human resource related policies and standards, including conducting applicable rounding.
• Directs, staffs, and trains food service department regarding food presentation, quality, cost control, and cash handling.
• Develops operational component forecasts and is able to explain variances. Responsible for component's accounting functions.
• Ensures compliance with all contract obligations.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• The ability to focus on client and customer services, entrepreneurship and building and growing a strong business is essential to success in this role.
• Savvy interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with clients, senior management, and Aramark support staff.
• Comfortable reading, understanding, and implementing contractual requirements, including identifying opportunities within contract terms and conditions to address operational issues.
• Requiring experience as a General Manager of Food Service or Food Service Director experience in a high-volume site.
• Proven ability leading through other managers.
• Experience in creating and managing a department budget, financial controls and analysis.
• Experience crafting product sales strategies and implementing operational programs and initiatives.
• Strong computer skills with Microsoft Office to include conducting Power Point Presentations.
• Note: This client location requires working on site to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before start date.