Contracts and Development Manager (Catering): Northallerton - North Yorkshire Council

Contracts and Development Manager (Catering) - Northallerton

Employer: North Yorkshire Council

£37,035 - £41,511

We are looking for an experienced individual, to join our high performing Technical Support Team as our Contracts and Development Manager. This is a very exciting and varied role for someone experienced in school catering and wanting to progress their career.

Our Service

NYES Catering provide school meals to over 200 schools across North Yorkshire and the North East of England, including Hull.  As part of North Yorkshire Council, the service is customer focussed and driven to provide exceptional standards of food service, and the best possible experience for all.

The Role

This primary focus of the role will be to lead the production and development of menus, within a set budget and adhering to the school food standards and other legislation such as allergen management.  To support in this, you will line manage three Development Chefs whose primary role is menu development, and ensuring our management information system is up to date, with all nutritional information.  You will oversee this ensuring the team are fully supported, appraised and you will ensure the accuracy of information.  You will liaise with suppliers to trial new food products, trends and innovation that will support the uptake of meals and the overall growth of the service.

The role also includes the management of our supplier contracts, such as meat and frozen, ambient goods, and fruit and veg. You will lead on procurement activities on behalf of the service and be the key link between the service and the corporate procurement team.  Holding regular contract review meetings with suppliers, you will ensure all KPI’s are met, and any supplier complaints are dealt with promptly, ensuring best value is received from our suppliers.

You will take responsibility for marketing of the service, liaising with our corporate marketing team, ensuring menus are well designed, printed and distributed, both in paper and via PDF, alongside any other required media.  You will lead on branding projects within schools and internal and external communications, such as staff and customer newsletters.  You will also support the management team with the production of tenders for new work as required.  You will line manage a Contracts and Development Officer, who will support you with data input onto our saffron management system and provide day to day support. You will be required to travel to suppliers and customers as part of the role, for which a mileage allowance will be paid.