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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 specificationsLeads 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 communicationSpecific MSP (e.g. Simple Zone), Regional recipes and Peripheral BOT management and maintenanceSupport the exception processDrives financial objectives and communicationHolds business unit accountable by leveraging the compliance dashboardConnect all transversal functions to resolve challenges What You Bring: Key qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent experienceMinimum 3 years’ experience in culinary or operationsStrong communication and change management skillsSolid technical acumen, comfortable analyzing large data sets Microsoft Excel (Intermediate level); Power BIExperience with menu management systems (Market Connection highly desired) Qualifications & Requirements: Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experienceMinimum Functional Experience: 3 years