Manager In Training – Patient Food Service

Grow your career with a company that shares your passion! Our Healthcare Division has an exciting new opportunity to join the Sodexo team as our next Manager in Training for our Patient Food Services team at Squamish Hospital. We offer relocation for the right candidate and Sodexo also offers a competitive hourly salary for this role.

Sodexo is the global leader in services that improve Quality of Life, an essential factor in individual and organizational performance. Operating in 67 countries, we serve over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of services. We pride ourselves on being committed to the highest standard of Employment Equity and Diversity. By partnering with the Stop Hunger Foundation, we have dedicated ourselves to a corporate responsibility by fighting hunger worldwide. Start your journey with Sodexo, as we continue to grow across Canada!

How You’ll Make an Impact:
This position reports to the General Manager and offers a great opportunity in healthcare patient food service. You will lead the patient food team through daily routines, manage labour costing, menu planning, waste audits as well as work with the client contract. This role will rely upon your excellent customer service, leadership skills and commitment to health and safety daily.
• Overseeing a team of employees and successfully coordinating and directing on the floor food service activities.
• You will establish and maintain a solid and mutually beneficial business relationship including: high levels of client and customer satisfaction and account retention; strong employee relations; achievement of financial goals particularly around labour costs; and strategically develop efficiencies in the operation. You will report directly to the General Manager.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:
• CSNM designation is mandatory as well as experience working with long term care or acute care facilities
• 1 year working with operations, finance, inventory, financial statements experience at the managerial/supervisory level
• Proven success in supervising food services operations in a healthcare setting
• Effective oral and written communication skills are needed
• Supervisory experience in a unionized environment
• Strong ability to manage and promote a safe work environment and lead a safety culture
• Effective planning, organizing, and time management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to select and develop people
• Ability to anticipate and solve problems
• May be required to work shifts
• Personal and professional integrity, appearance, and demeanor
• Embodies our value behaviors:  Service Spirit, Team Spirit, and the Spirit of Progress

Value Behaviors:
•    Serving Clients and Customers
•    Integrity
•    Flexibility
•    Analysis and Decision Making
•    Quality Assurance and Safety
•    Diversity Awareness
•    Drive and Dependability
•    Interpersonal Relations
•    Communication

 What Makes Sodexo Different:
Flexible work environment  
Competitive compensation & great employee benefits 
Training and development programs  
Countless opportunities for growth  
Corporate responsibility & sustainability  
Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2019 
Canada’s Best Employers by Forbes 2019 
Diversity Inc. Top 50 employer 2019 
And so much more!  

Sodexo is committed to Employment Equity and Diversity. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of national origin, race, religion, ethnic group, age, disability, gender, sexual preference, sexual or gender identity, status as a veteran or any other federal, provincial or local protected class. 

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodation is available on request from candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

Thank you for your interest in Sodexo.

Please note that only those candidates under consideration will be contacted.
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To Apply:
Michele Matheson, CCDP, CMP, RPR
Senior Recruiter, Western Canada
Sodexo Canada
Cell:604-345-4391
Michele.matheson@sodexo.com