Job Summary
Operations Director for a growing cutting edge, high profile quality food concept that is about to hit the High Street industry by storm!!
Client Profile
An innovative and dynamic concept that combines a restaurant, retail offer, takeaway and online mail order food offer. This company’s success and core values are around quality, innovative products that are for food lovers!! They pride themselves on quality, the freshest products money can buy, coupled with great service and a team that really believe in what they do. A brand that has several already established businesses and is now ready to take the business to the next level with 2 new site acquisitions ready to go and more in the pipeline.
A progressive organisation that have an expansion plan mapped out are looking for a new Operations Director to join their management team to drive this brand forward!
Job Specification
Seeking an experienced Operations Director to lead and manage this progressive business, take ownership of the existing business whilst also getting heavily involved in the new store openings. As Operations Director, you will contribute to the strategic development of the business, formulate plans and objectives and ensure this is filtered through your team and delivers successful operating results.
You must be forward thinking and able to apply your existing skill set to enable a small business to achieve growth, through optimise sales, profitability and secure the returns on investment. Initially, a key part of your role will be to stabilise and improve the existing business ready for growth, ensure the existing business model is secure, tried and tested to ensure flawless roll-out of this fantastic brand! Now that is exciting!!!
Person Specification
This is an exciting position for an experienced Operations Director who has exposure to growing a business. The successful candidate must have:
Exposure to managing high volume businesses
Experienced in openings and developing businesses
Branded Operations experience in a restaurant / retail chain
Be totally quality focused, without compromise
Passionate about food
Be an inspirer!
Cultural fit and dynamics is key for this role and we are looking for a like-minded, inspirational individual who has a natural management style and is non-corporate in your approach! You must possess sophisticated management skills but have the ability to lead a team, create inspirational vision and have fun! We also want you to be an excellent communicator; good problem solver who is results orientated and has strong financial acumen. If you are all of these, want the job of your dreams then contact me.
Remuneration
£60-70k basic salary + package
Eligibility
You must be eligible to live and work in the UK
Portfolio embraces diversity and is committed to providing equal opportunities for candidates.
Contact
To apply for this vacancy please forward your CV to justine.vanzijl@portfoliointl.com quoting the reference code: JVZ405500pf
