**Unit Description**

**Let your passion for people be the driver of your success at Sodexo. Through your leadership, your team will make a real impact every day.**

**Sodexo** is seeking a **Patient Food Service Operations Manager** to join our food service team at Phoenix Children's Hospital in Phoenix, AZ. Children's Hospital is a 457-bed pediatric hospital committed to providing quality care and excellent service. This account has a fast paced, high volume food service department, generating over $6.5m in Retail sales annually, and focused on achieving the highest level of customer satisfaction.

In this role, you will be directing and managing the At Your Request Patient Room Service dining program, and the utility team. Responsibilities will include scheduling, inventory/ordering, training, and development of staff, direct customer interaction, and supervision of up to 50 hourly associates, managers, and supervisors. Flexible hours covering various shifts and positions needed for this role, rotating weekends as well as some holidays. This location is a showcase account with a state-of-the-art kitchen and retail dining facility and full AYR Health Touch operation, and catering services. The cuisine in the Cafe is very high end and resort level fare.

**The successful candidate will:**

+ evaluate and develop service levels for the overall Patient Services Program targeted to exceed patient and customer satisfaction;

+ oversee Sodexo’s Patient Dining Program and daily meal rounding inclusive of service recovery;

+ collaborate with clinical, food service and interdisciplinary teams to enhance the patient experience;

+ perform tray assessments to ensure food quality and presentation and tray accuracy;

+ exceed Sodexo standards for Gold Checks and achieve successful regulatory inspections and audits; and/or

+ perform management functions that include direct supervision of hourly associates including employee development.

**Is this opportunity right for you? We are looking for candidates who have:**

+ excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to maintain the highest of standards and implement company policies;

+ passion for our patients and customers to ensure our Sodexo CARES (Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Enthusiasm and Service) behaviors are followed daily;

+ knowledge of nutrition and specialized diets;

+ experience with oversight of diet offices; and/or

+ strong management skills, preferably in healthcare.

To learn more about Phoenix Children's Hospital, please visit http://www.phoenixchildrens.com/ .

Please apply today to lead an award-winning team! This in an opportunity to elevate your management skills and showcase your experience and innovation

Sodexo offers a full array of benefits including paid time off, holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K and access to ongoing training and development programs, tuition reimbursement, plus health and wellness programs.

**What We Offer**

Sodexo offers fair and equitable compensation, partially determined by a candidate's education level or years of relevant experience. While the budgeted range for the position is posted, Sodexo salary offers are based on a candidate's specific criteria, like experience, skills, education and training.

**Qualifications & Requirements**

Basic Education Requirement - Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Basic Management Experience - 3 years

Basic Functional Experience - 3 years work experience in food or culinary services including restaurants, fast food, vending, catering services, institutional services, mall food courts, etc.

Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.

**Location** _US-AZ-PHOENIX_

**System ID** _972844_

**Category** _Food Service_

**Relocation Type** _No_

**Employment Status** _Full-Time_

**Posted Range** _$61100 to $92400_

**Company : Segment Desc** _HOSPITALS_

_On-Site_