Senior Manager, Segment Culinary Operation Excellence

Role Overview

Sodexo has an exciting opening for a Senior Manager, Segment Culinary Operational Excellence, to join our team. This role serves as a culinary and operational leader responsible for advancing the Target Operating Model (TOM) across the Campus segment. The position drives culinary creativity by partnering with segment culinary teams, brand owners, and operational excellence groups to establish a unified approach to recipe development built on a defined set of ingredient specifications.

This is a remote position, requires some travel. Candidates can reside anywhere within the U.S.

What You'll Do

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with segment culinary, brand owners, and Opex teams to build all our recipes using and agreed and limited number of ingredient specifications
• Leads efforts to drive decisions towards TOM compliance objectives.
• Animate and engage a change champion network made of RAMs, area exec chef, Opex teams, etc. Also leverage sites who are live to promote peer to peer communication
• Specific MSP (e.g. Simple Zone), Regional recipes and Peripheral BOT management and maintenance
• Support the exception process
• Drives financial objectives and communication
• Holds business unit accountable by leveraging the compliance dashboard
• Connect all transversal functions to resolve challenges

What You Bring

Key qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum 3 years' experience in culinary or operations
• Strong communication and change management skills
• Solid technical acumen, comfortable analyzing large data sets
• Microsoft Excel (Intermediate level); Power BI
• Experience with menu management systems (Market Connection highly desired)

Qualifications & Requirements

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Minimum Functional Experience: 3 years

Client-provided location(s): Chevy Chase, MD

Job ID: Sodexo-2B2495C7B94399A83C502F1F2F790B68

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-01-27T18:50:28