General Manager Sought For Rapidly Growing Food Service Management Company

Area General Manager Opportunity

We are looking to add a highly motivated, food-loving Area General Manager with culinary skills to our team!

This is a highly visible role of employee training and development, P&L management and overall responsibility for the operation! If you are passionate about preparing food and creating an excellent guest experience, consider joining the Taher team!

Essential functions:

• Meeting the reasonable needs of the client; Building, training, and maintaining a food service team
• Ensuring that each unit is meeting the financial objectives of the client and Taher, Inc. Overall ownership and accountability of operational management and financial performance of multiple units.
• Model key leadership behaviors ensuring the highest levels of safety, quality, and service excellence for employees, clients, and consumers
• Coach employees by creating a shared understanding about what the goals are and how they to achieve them
• Identify and engage top talent and develop team members to their fullest potential within the organization
• Planning and leading team management meetings
• Ensure safety and sanitation standards in all operations
• Establish and maintain effective client and customer rapport for a mutually beneficial business relationship
• Identify client needs and communicate operational progress
• Facilitate and support new business and retention activities
• Build revenue and manage budget including cost controls with regard to food and labor
• Ensure the completion and maintenance of P&L statements for the units
• Oversight and responsibility to deliver client and company financial targets.
• Ensure adoption of all processes and systems
• Understand performance metrics, data, order, and inventory trends; Educate teams on key levers to improve margins
• Ensure value through efficient operations, appropriate cost controls, and profit management
• Understand end-to-end supply chain and procurement processes and systems
• Ensure unit managers maintain a safe, and healthy environment for clients, customers, and employees
• Comply with all applicable policies, rules, and regulations, including but not limited to those relating to safety, health, wage, and hour
• Performs additional duties as assigned by leadership

Additional responsibilities:

• Responsible for recruiting, training and succession planning of overall district.
• Maintain relationships with the community where we serve, including professional and civic activities and public appearances.
• Collaborate in sales, rebid, and retention initiatives.
• Develop and be accountable for a safety culture that creates a work environment where no one gets hurt.
• Identify opportunities to implement new and innovative products and services, which support business development and client retention.

Who We Are:

Taher, Inc. is a family-owned, and operated, chef-driven, food service management company providing K-12 school lunch management, campus dining, senior dining, corporate dining and catering, and vending and office beverage services to clients in our growing nationwide footprint.

Customers choose Taher for its chef-developed recipes created from natural and sustainable local sources, and for delivering the latest in culinary trends and operational resources to provide outstanding food options for our guests. Taher maintains a consistent presence in Food Service Management's Top 25 companies.

We are proud to offer competitive benefits including:

• Competitive compensation
• Free daily lunch
• Employee training and development
• Opportunities for advancement
• Safety practices and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is provided
• Guaranteed hours
• Work-life balance
• Culture of inclusion and belonging