Director of Food Services

St Camillus Residential Health•Camillus, NY

9d•$85,000 - $105,000•Onsite

About The Position

This position oversees the community's food and beverage operations, ensuring exceptional quality and hospitality to meet resident and client satisfaction. This role involves managing the financial budget, fostering a positive work environment, and ensuring the smooth execution of departmental offerings.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Food Services Management OR an Associate's degree, with four (4) years of food services management experience.
Five to seven (5-7) years of direct food service operational management experience, including inventory purchasing knowledge and control.
Strong knowledge and understanding of food allergens and restrictive diet trends.
Strong supervisory, leadership, management and coaching skills.
Ability to communicate on various levels to include management, clients, and associates.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement overall operating strategy that is aligned to St. Camillus and disseminates the vision within the community, so all team members understand expectations.
Must have an entrepreneurial approach and take ownership in driving desired outcome and holding the assisting leaders accountable for demonstrating desired service behaviors.
Ability to quickly evaluate personnel, operations and culinary situations and make appropriate recommendations to thus involved.
Maintain a professional and positive demeanor with a high level of resilience during stressful periods, and have the ability to adapt and solve problems.
Perform daily walk-throughs to ensure full compliance with Department of Health and St. Camillus standards.
Direct and conducts safety, and sanitation programs.
Ensures that regular, ongoing communication occurs in all areas of food and beverage by leading pre-meal briefings and staff meetings.
Advise and update executives, supervisors, coworkers, and associates on relevant information in a timely manner.
Maintain and oversee the department in accordance with the approved budget, providing the client with the maximum value of the dollars spent.
Reviews the financial report and statements to determine how the department is performing against the approved budget.
Understand St. Camillus’ business model to prioritize what is most important to the residents and patients.
Be visible within the company to maintain excellent relationships with residents, staff and other departments.
Review resident satisfaction results and other data to identify areas of improvement and share feedback with all team members. Take appropriate corrective action when needed to deliver desired outcomes.
Improve services by communicating and assisting individuals to understand resident needs, providing mentorship, feedback and coaching when needed.
Empower employees to provide excellent service that exceeds resident and client satisfaction.
Ability to cross-train abilities for all skills, promote professional growth and development of the entire team.
Ability to hire, train and retain talent for both leadership roles and associates.
All other duties assigned by your supervisor.