General Manager – Catering & Cleaning

Avonmouth, Bristol
Up to £50,000 per annum
5 days over 7 

Due to the site location, you'll also need to drive and have access to your own vehicle.

Are you an experienced Catering General Manager or Senior Catering Manager who loves great food, thrives in a client-facing environment and knows how to create a workplace food offer people genuinely want to use?

We’re looking for a commercially minded, hands-on General Manager to lead the catering and cleaning services at a high-profile corporate site in Avonmouth.

This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a developing operation, working closely with senior client stakeholders and leading a team to deliver an outstanding customer experience.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll have overall responsibility for the day-to-day operation, with catering very much at the heart of the role.

You’ll:

• Lead and develop the onsite catering and cleaning teams
• Drive a high-quality, innovative and engaging food offer
• Work closely with the Head Chef to continually develop menus, concepts and customer experience
• Deliver hospitality, events, pop-ups and wellbeing initiatives
• Build strong relationships with senior client stakeholders
• Take ownership of site-level P&L, budgets and commercial performance
• Ensure consistently high standards across food, service, safety and compliance
• Look for opportunities to grow participation, improve the customer journey and enhance the overall workplace experience
• Lead from the front in a fast-moving, operational environment

Who we’re looking for

For this role, contract catering experience is essential.

We’re particularly interested in candidates who have:

• Around 3+ years' experience at Catering Manager, General Manager or equivalent level
• A strong background within contract catering
• Experience managing a substantial, busy catering operation
• Strong food knowledge and a genuine passion for food and innovation
• Experience managing commercial performance and a site-level P&L
• Confidence working directly with senior clients and stakeholders
• Experience delivering hospitality and events, including responding effectively to short-notice requirements
• A proactive, solutions-focused leadership style
• The ability to manage additional soft services alongside catering

You don’t need to be a cleaning specialist. Your credibility as an experienced catering operator is what matters most.

The opportunity

This is a fantastic role for someone who wants to take ownership of a high-profile site serving around 450 customers, while developing a food offer that goes beyond traditional workplace catering.

With events, hospitality, pop-ups and wellbeing activity all forming part of the operation, there’s plenty of scope to bring ideas to the table and make your mark.

The site operates seven days a week, so you’ll work 5 days over 7 in line with business needs, including some weekends.

If you’re an experienced contract caterer ready to step into a broader General Manager role, we’d love to hear from you.

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