Title: Operations Manager (Catering)

Location: Amsterdam HQ

Gross salary: EUR 4600 - 5000 gross based on fulltime employment

Benefits:

• 25 holidays per calendar year
• 8% holiday allowance
• Meals on shift for a small tax withholding
• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Pension accrual and additional pension
• Commuting allowance of € 0,23 per km for distances over 10 km
• Possibility to lease a bike

Here at BaxterStorey we currently have an exciting opportunity for a talented Operations Manager to develop and lead a team of General Managers and Head Chefs located across the Amsterdam region to provide exceptional Hospitality and catering services to our clients. 

As the Operations Manager, you’ll oversee a diverse portfolio of clients, ensuring world-class standards, operational efficiency and financial delivery. The perfect candidate will understand how to collaboratively work with a passionate and talented team ensuring they have the autonomy to affect the direction of their business with a shared vision of outstanding service delivery.

As a member of the BaxterStorey family, you will have access to a supportive and inclusive work environment that encourages growth and celebrates diversity. Investing in your development and provide ongoing training to ensure that you have the skills and knowledge to thrive in your role whilst being dedicated to ensuring your work-life balance thus enabling you to pursue your passion for hospitality while also taking care of yourself.

• Strategic Leadership: Manage and inspire your team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence.
• Financial Oversight: Analyse financial data to create actionable strategies that drive profitability and efficiencies.
• Innovation Driver: Identify emerging food trends and craft innovative offerings that delight our customers.
• Training & Talent Development: Ensure workplace training and learning is afforded to all employees. Develop a personalised talent programme that aligns with the organisational needs
• ESG Leadership: Develop and execute cutting-edge environmental, social and governance strategies that ensure we remain a leader in this field.

• Proven experience managing large-scale, multi-site operations in the catering and hospitality industry.
• Analytical mindset, with the ability to interpret financial data and customer insights to shape winning strategies.
• A track record of driving innovation in food services and embracing new trends.
• Strong presentation skills and the charisma to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• A leader who champions health & safety, diversity, and inclusion.
• Natural people developer with a focus for training, motivating, and building high-performing teams.
• A foodie at heart, with a genuine passion for the industry and an insatiable appetite for growth.
• Works according to the BaxterStorey core values

For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.

We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.

Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

Join us, and be part of the food revolution!

BaxterStorey Values:

ALWAYS VISIONARY

We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.

WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE

We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is amplified by our people.

CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE

We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.

FOREVER CONSCIOUS

We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our workforce.

The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

And to support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ED&I (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.