Director Food & Nutrition
About The Position
This is a full-time position with the Support Operations Division - Food and Nutrition department at Virginia Street. The Director of Food & Nutrition is directly accountable for establishing and executing strategic plans and leading enterprise-wide operational strategies. This role involves developing, communicating, and executing innovative planning initiatives, standardizing work processes with best practices, and overseeing new projects including construction and remodeling. The Director also directs and executes regulatory agency standards, including food management, food safety processes, and clinical nutrition practices, while ensuring a continuous improvement mindset. Additionally, this role is responsible for retention and recruiting initiatives, identifying and leading new product and service implementations, managing product compliance for patient and retail menus, establishing efficiency targets, and ensuring team member and customer satisfaction. Human resources responsibilities include interviewing, selection, staff development, performance evaluations, compensation, and employee relations. The Director also develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and ensures adherence to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Dietetics, or Bachelor's Degree in Hospitality Management, or Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field.
- Typically requires 7 years of experience in food service a large or multi- hospital setting or multi-regional enterprise operations.
- Includes 3 years of management experience in healthcare management.
- Solving complex problems using sophisticated analytical thought /judgement to identify innovative solutions.
- Advanced and expert level skills in food and nutrition programs, practices, hospitality, and customer service.
- Experience leading teams and complex projects with significant resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.
- Ability in interpreting internal and external business challenges and recommends solutions/best practices to improve products, processes, and services.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills. Ability to communicate difficult concepts, and negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view.
- Experience in leading and facilitating group meetings and projects.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, and customer service skills- able to maintain a calm, professional demeanor under pressure exhibiting effective crisis management skills.
- Self-directed and independent in decision making.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Effective oral and written communication skills, organizational abilities, priority management, and statistical analysis abilities.
- Ability to design and conduct educational programs and presentations.
Responsibilities
- Directly accountable to establish and execute upon strategic plan and leading enterprise-wide operational strategies.
- Develops, communicates, and executes all strategic innovative planning initiatives.
- Directly accountable for the development of standardized work processes, including the utilization of best practices driving systemization.
- Oversees new projects including construction and remodeling.
- Directs and executes regulatory agency standards/ initiatives- oversight of the food management, food safety process and clinical nutrition practices.
- Ensures a continuous improvement mindset in relation to Advocate Aurora food management/safety audit process.
- Directs and executes retention and recruiting initiatives for both FNS team members and managers, assuring all retention strategies are implemented and documented.
- Identifies and leads initiatives around the implementation of new products and services at sites.
- Leads the product compliance for patient and retail menu utilization across all sites operations from an inventory management and safety perspective.
- Establishes all efficiency targets for site operations and logistics.
- Accountable for Team Member and Customer satisfaction in regard to site operations.
- Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which include interviewing and selection of new employees, promotions, staff development, performance evaluations, compensation changes, resolution of employee concerns, corrective actions, terminations, and overall employee morale.
- Develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.
- Responsible for understanding and adhering to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that personal actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply with the policies, regulations and laws applicable to the organization's business.
Benefits
- Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs
- Competitive compensation
- Generous retirement offerings
- Programs that invest in your career development
- Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
- Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
- Incentive pay for select positions
- Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
- Paid Time Off programs
- Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
- Educational Assistance Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
