Area Manager

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Food Services | Food and Beverage Service | Multi-Outlet Manager
Job Type:
Full Time
Job Suitable For:
#midcareer#skills-training
Benefits:

flexible work hours

health & wellness benefits

free food & beverages

training opportunities

personal development benefits

No. of Vacancies:

2

Job Description
ABOUT KOUFU GROUP

口福 “Koufu” refers to the Chinese belief that it is one’s good fortune to feast on good food, therefore "mouth fortune".

Koufu is a local established food and beverage company that operates a chain of food courts, coffee shops, F&B units such as stalls, kiosks, and restaurants as well a central kitchen.

Founded in 2002 by Mr Pang Lim, CEO with more than 30 years’ of F&B experience, Koufu is a household name in the hearts of Singaporeans. Within a span of 10 years and with a vision to preserve the unique Singaporean coffee shop culture, Mr Pang Lim expanded its business profile from neighbourhood coffee shops to modern food courts in residential areas, malls and campuses.

At Koufu, we are a fast-growing team of over 1,500 employees with presence in Singapore and Macau to bring forth ‘Koufu’ to everyone, we make it our purpose to provide good food and services that everyone is able to enjoy through our deep roots in traditional Singaporean cooking and in true coffee shop culture.

We adopt this comprehensive approach to provide such good fortune for generations of loyal customers.

Better Food 精致美食 | Better People 优质生活 | Better Life 美满人生

For more information, please visit us at https://www.koufu.com.sg/

ABOUT THE ROLE:
Reporting to the Operations Manager (OM) / Head of Operations (HOO), the role will embark on an exciting journey as part of the Operations Team. In this role, individuals will be provided with opportunities to learn about the management of foodcourts and coffeeshops.
REPORTING LINE:
• Operations Manager (OM) / Head of Operations (HOO)

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Operations
• Led a team of Senior / Foodcourt Manager in achieving sales targets and overall performance of outlets
• Provide guidance to Senior / Foodcourt Manager and F&B Supervisor to maintain smooth daily operations of the Foodcourts and Coffeeshops
• Ability to lead and set directions as well as provide guidelines to the operation team according to company SOPs and operational workflows.
• Maintain good working relationships with landlords, relevant authorities/ agencies, and stall tenants.
• Assist inspectors of relevant authorities/ agencies such as NEA, SFA and Civil Defense during outlet inspection and follow-up actions.
• Liaise with landlords on building matters, joint promotions and events.
• Responsible in marketing of food stalls to tenants and ensure outlet’s prompt collection of rental from tenants
• In-charge for lease renewal agreement, negotiate and follow-up on terms of lease with stall tenants.
• Responsible for sourcing qualified tenants / food types to fill up vacant stalls and to ensure that all vacant stalls are filled
• Propose activities according to market needs.
• Take immediate and appropriate collection/legal actions for recovery of debt (e.g. Stall rental etc.) and minimise credit losses
• Able to handle daily sales settlement
• Work with Business Development and Project to identify potential new business opportunities, sites, source, build and renovate
• Responsible for the financial and operational performance of the Foodcourt and Coffeeshop of designated area
• Work with senior management and financial team on outlets’ budgets.
• Establish overall business plans and provide regular reports on area performance, sales and financial budget analysis to senior management
• Provide solutions to improve the bottom line to outlet’s Profit and Loss.
• Maintain and improve established quality and service standards
• Develop employees by providing ongoing feedback for operational improvement and establishing performance expectations
• Maintain good working relationships with landlords, relevant authorities/ agencies, and stall tenants.
• Conduct regular checks on the hygiene, service standards and quality of products, and provide feedback internally and to stall tenant.
• Ensure selling prices of stalls according to agreements.
• Assess and provide evaluation of stall tenants' performance.
• Supervise and provide guidance to stall tenants and cleaning contractors to provide high quality of service and achieve housekeeping excellence.
• Conduct weekly and monthly outlet’s meeting
• Ensure M&E works according to schedule.
Administration
• Review staff performance and provide recommendation on staff confirmation, promotion and training to enhance their work performance.
• Handle disciplinary issues, grievances, disputes and work tension among the team.
• Handles the termination procedures as per company’s guideline.
• Effectively communicate company policies and procedures to team members, and stall tenant etc.
• Accountable for outlet float money, petty cash and daily sales collection.
• Responsible for ensuring stall tenants’ daily sales received, are correct and being bank in.
• Timely submission of outlet reports.
• Prepare and submit monthly reports to Senior Management.
• Ensure proper cost control on all expenses according to budget.
• Carry out necessary actions against stall tenants and contractors for non-conformance in service, housekeeping and agreements.
• Any other assigned tasks

JOB REQUIREMENTS:
• With passion in working F&B industry and its operational processes.
• Diploma in F&B, supply chain or related disciplines
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Foodcourt operation
• Bilingual in both English and Mandarin (written and spoken) to liaise with English and Chinese-speaking stakeholders
• Ability to foster positive working relationships
• Strong leadership quality with excellent analytical and decision-making skills
• Basic computer literacy including Microsoft Office and Google Suite
• Must possess Class 3 license

LOCATION / OTHERS:
• 5 days work week, non-rotating shift
Job Criteria/Requirements
Qualifications:

O' Levels

Employer Profile
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Koufu Private Limited

We are a leading F&B company in Singapore looking to fill the following positions to cater to our expansion plans. Koufu was founded in 2002 by Mr Pang Lim, Managing Director. Within a short span of 10 years, Koufu has expanded its business profile from neighbourhood coffee shops to establish large scale modern food courts in residential areas and commercial shopping malls. Koufu has been enhancing its effort to preserve the unique Singaporean coffee shop culture amidst the challenges and rapid changes in our local food and beverage industry. We have managed to transform our organization through a three-pronged strategy in ensuring the "quality", "service" and "environment" factors are covered. Through these effective strategies we have managed to create breakthroughs by integrating modern food court/coffeeshop management style with contemporary designs.