General Manager 2 - Food - Sodexo

Are you a  hospitality leader with a proven commitment to excellence, teamwork, and collaboration to help us achieve our vision. 

Sodexo Corporate Services is looking for a General Manager to lead our team at Flextronics in West Columbia, South Carolina!  The food operation consists of  a Corporate Cafe, Catering Operations and Micro-Market. The General Manager will be fully responsible for supporting this new high profile client. The GM must be client savvy, customer service orientated and have experience with catering and retail food operations while having the financial acumen to be strategic in managing Sodexo and our client’s needs.

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Experience managing a team both front-of-house and back-of-house
• Financial acumen, experience with creating and managing budgets
• Experience training and mentoring a talented and diverse staff
• Customer driven and strong track record in organizational development
• Superior client relations skills and executive presence
• Experience with building great teams

Duties of the General Manager will include but not limited to:

• Managing the Client relationship
• Managing the budget/finances for the business
• Menu planning
• Ordering
• Inventory
• Managing a team of 5 hourly employees
• Catering production

This position offers a traditional Business & Industry, Predominately M-F schedule. Accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation per year (first year pro-rated based on date of hire).  Medical Benefits beginning date of hire, and 401K with company match eligible.

Sodexo offers fair and equitable compensation, partially determined by a candidate's education level or years of relevant experience. While the budgeted range for the position is posted, Sodexo salary offers are based on a candidate's specific criteria, like experience, skills, education and training.

Basic Education Requirement - Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
Basic Management Experience - 2 years
Basic Functional Experience - 2 years

Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.