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Head of Travel
2 weeks ago
Absolute taste is part of The Menu Partners, a diverse food business supplying hotels, pubs and restaurants up and down the UK with whole, prepared or cooked food.
Within our group of businesses, we also have Absolute Taste, a leading event catering company, Absolute Taste Inflight our Private Jet catering business along with two farm shops, a pub and a variety of fixed sites and our stadium group F3.
Come and join an exciting company which is expanding very quickly and looking for the right people to come and join our teams.
Role Summary:
- Develop, lead and maintain high performing travel teams (Eurostar & Private Aviation)
- P&L responsibility for Travel
- Ensure that all compliance is fully achieved consistently
- Be a main point of contact for all travel accounts
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
***- Manage the operational budget ensuring that key cost control areas are kept in line
- Support the Senior Management Team in delivery of all operational aspects of company strategy
- Resolve issues effectively in a functional and cohesive way, seeing real problems.
- Confirm that all key messages are properly and consistently cascaded across teams and enhance effective communication throughout the Inflight business
- Use operational budgets effectively to promote profitability and ensure the company has all the resources required to meet its objectives within agreed financial parameters
- Oversee management of the onsite facility, including ongoing maintenance and improvement works, materials, packaging and finished product
- Participate in personnel development at all levels through talent acquisition, performance management, providing education and communication opportunities for high performers
- Take the HR lead for new arrivals
- Induction training
- Manage and implement the Health and Safety policy and risk assessments across the business.
- Be the point of contact for all related issues
- Attend symposiums on Operations, Transport and Health & Safety and pass on the most up to date best practices
- Develop and lead logistics Standards & Operations Planning (SOP) process
- Manage the Security Plan & Operations Planning (SOP) process
- Manage the Security Plan and become the CAA representative
- Ensure Company follows laws and regulations regarding transportation, including hazardous materials
- Manage all inspection by outside parties including the EHOs, CAA and auditing bodies
- Improve performance efficiency: Lead, manage and hold the team accountable for achieving agreedupon commitments in support of company objectives
- Drives to meet business objectives and goals set by superior related to Monthly Forecasting, P&L, quality assurance, staff turnover, H&S, FS and CAA compliance and all other specific goals set thereof.
Key Deliverables:
- Quality; perception by customer and managing SLAs as per the contract
- People & Culture: Satisfaction of the team, staff turnover, recruitment and team appraisal (formal and informal).
- EBITDA and Cashflow: achieved EBITDA compared to agreed budget
- Compliance: Scores in Food Safety (Local Authority and Food Alert), Security (CAA), Health and Safety internal and external audits
- Innovation: develop SOP's and critically review them regularly and contributions to brand reputation
- Ability to hold and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders
Qualifications
Experience & Skills:
- 3+ years leadership position in a fastmoving environment
- Project and change management experience
- Demonstrated experience with managing financials with budget responsibility required
- Strong track record of innovation and making changes to the operation to further improve the work environment and unit performance
- Superior flair for food
- Experience dealing with highprofile clients
- Must have strong and effective leadership and interpersonal skills (hands on mentality)
- Excellent and swift problemsolving skills, planning and scheduling capabilities managing multiple account requirements and analytical in approach
- Ability to effectively manage the operation while maintaining compliance in a heavy regulated environment e.g. CAA, HACCP
- Advanced Microsoft office tool skills (Excel, Word)
- Knowledge of quality auditing, inspection methods
- Detail orientated and excellent project management skill
- Strong organisational skills, able to prioritise responsibilities and multitask.
- Understanding that this department is a 365 days operation and the challenges that come with this
Technical Skills:
(Certification, Licenses and Registration)
- 5year clean referencing for CAA
- DBS and counterterrorism check required
- Driving licence preferred
Language / Communication Skills:
- English
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- People person: Can easily build and maintain relationship to any kind of personal
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