King's College London

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About us:

Kings Food provides a multi award winning range of retail and hospitality services through our restaurants and coffee shops across The Strand, Waterloo, Denmark Hill, Guys and St Thomas campuses.

The department has a strong commitment to providing excellent customer service and sustainably robust offer and aims to ensure best value for money for its customers and the College.

About the role:

The post holder will manage all business services for King’s Catering & Events, working with the Associate Director of Catering and Events to drive the departments ambitious financial, compliance, audit, software optimisation, data analysis and effective administration targets. They will work with other business focused departments across the organisation to ensure a holistic approach is taken to the success of the department. The position requires strong relationship building with King’s Food and King’s Venues, particularly the heads of each department to ensure aligned departmental goals and strategies. This role demands a proactive, strategic thinker who can balance operational excellence with innovation and compliance to drive the department’s success.

The Strategic Direction within King’s Catering & Events is focused on ensuring that the department significantly enhances the experience of students and wider stakeholders. The post holder will be expected to contribute innovative ideas that support the department’s drive for service excellence, financial sustainability and strategic growth. A key responsibility is to develop and implement 3-year business development strategies that identify and create new community focused and commercial opportunities. This will involve close collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure that services align with the strategic goals of the wider organisation. You will ensure the effective delivery of joined up business services across the whole department, whilst demonstrating a culture of excellence in every aspect of the role. 

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1.       Catering Operations Qualifications or Relevant Demonstratable Experience. 

2.      Adaptable to changing circumstances and unforeseen situations.

3.      Experience in both internal and external auditing, identifying concerns and creating solutions.

4.      Strong Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills.

5.      Ability to prioritise work effectively under own motivation to achieve short-, medium- and long-term objectives, collaboratively when required.

6.      Experience of collaborative working, developing and managing relationships.

7.      Strong ability to Mentor, Coach and/or Manage as required and recognise the difference.

8.      Experience of collaborative working, developing and managing relationships.

Desirable criteria

1.      Meticulous attention to detail

2.      Experience in managing high level finance accounts

3.      IT skills across Microsoft office

4.      Excellent time management and prioritisation

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

 The role is an adaptation of the previous Head of Finance and Business Services as a result of the recent King’s Food Restructure. The role will manage all business services and offer development for King’s Catering & Events, working with the Associate Director of Catering and Events to drive the departments ambitious financial, compliance, audit, software optimisation, data analysis and effective administration targets. They will work with other business focused departments across the organisation to ensure a holistic approach is taken to the success of the department. The position requires strong relationship building with King’s Food and King’s Venues, particularly the heads of each department to ensure aligned departmental goals and strategies. This role demands a proactive, strategic thinker who can balance operational excellence with innovation and compliance to drive the department’s success.