Catering Sales Manager

**Unit Description**

**Working together, supporting your team, and reaching high-end for the best in a high-volume, high-paced environment is second nature to you.**

**Sodexo** is seeking an experienced **Catering Manager** at **Howard University** in **Washington, DC** **.**

**The successful candidate will:**

+ Possess strong sales knowledge and the ability to create catering guides;

+ Ensure that Sodexo and customer goals are aligned and met;

+ Educate and develop rapport with clients and promote partnerships;

+ Maintain and improve service level resulting in increased customer satisfaction;

+ Ensure all HAACP standards are followed; and/or

+ Demonstrate resourcefulness and quick responsiveness to client and customer requests.

**Is this opportunity right for you? We are looking for candidates who:**

+ Have a strong background in safety and sanitation compliance

+ Prioritize tasks and exhibit flexibility to take on additional responsibilities as needed

+ Extensive formal training in Catering services, with particular emphasis on customer service, event planning and presentation, and event management

+ Strong focus on food quality and presentation as well as high-end catering experience

+ Strong leadership skills, computer skills, culinary knowledge, and food/beverage cost controls.

+ Technical competence in unit financial management, pricing, and menu development and will be responsible for the training and development of front-line hourly employees and managers.

+ Superior interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and maintain professional, positive working relationships with multiple clients, liaisons, customers, employees, supervisors, and vendors.

+ Exceptional time management skills and will be able to juggle multiple priorities

+ Ability to enhance the learning environment on campus through world-class food service

Sodexo offers a full array of benefits including paid time off, holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K, and access to ongoing training and development programs, tuition reimbursement, plus health and wellness programs.

**Working for Sodexo:**

At Sodexo, you will find the ingredients for a great career in food service management. With benefits including schedules that encourage work-life balance and continuing education opportunities, you'll enjoy an improved quality of life that's unique in the hospitality industry.

**What We Offer**

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.

**Qualifications & Requirements**

Basic Education Requirement - Associate's Degreeor equivalent experience

Basic Management Experience - 2 years

Basic Functional Experience - 1 year work experience in food or culinary services including restaurants, fast food, vending, catering services, institutional services, mall food courts, etc.

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

**Location** _US-DC-WASHINGTON_

**System ID** _974862_

**Category** _Food Service_

**Relocation Type** _No_

**Employment Status** _Full-Time_

**Posted Range** _$55500 to $83820_

**Company : Segment Desc** _UNIVERSITIES_

_On-Site_