Catering Manager - Pennine Garden Centre in Shelley

Part-time Permanent Manager

Posted 09 Sep 2026

Description

Looking for a role where you can lead from the front, drive performance and make a real impact every day?

At Pennine Garden Centre, we're looking for a passionate and experienced Catering Manager to lead our busy restaurant operation. This is a part time role working on average 30 hours per week including alternate weekends.

This is not a role where you'll be sat in an office all day. We're looking for someone who enjoys being at the heart of the action, supporting their team, engaging with customers, overseeing service and ensuring standards remain consistently high. You'll be equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves during busy periods as you are analysing performance, managing costs and planning for future success.

If you're a strong people leader with a commercial mindset and a passion for hospitality, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Responsible For

As Catering Manager, you'll oversee the day-to-day operation of our restaurant and kitchen, ensuring we deliver great food, excellent service and a fantastic customer experience every day. You'll lead and develop a team of supervisors, chefs and front-of-house colleagues whilst taking ownership of key business performance measures including sales, labour costs and margins.

You'll play a vital role in:

• Leading, coaching and developing a large catering team.
• Managing rotas, labour costs and departmental performance.
• Maintaining high standards of customer service, cleanliness and food safety.
• Supporting the delivery of seasonal events and promotions.
• Managing stock, ordering and reducing wastage.
• Working closely with senior leaders to plan menus, promotions and future trading opportunities.
• Using sales and performance data to identify opportunities and improve results.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who understands that great catering operations are built on two things:

You know how to motivate a team, set clear expectations and create a positive working environment. You're confident leading from the front, providing support when needed and holding your team accountable for delivering excellent service.

You understand the numbers behind a successful hospitality business. You can balance customer experience with sales performance, labour costs, stock control and margin management. You enjoy using data to make informed decisions and drive improvements.

You'll ideally have:

• Experience managing large teams.
• Experience running a fast-paced catering, hospitality or restaurant operation.
• Strong organisational and planning skills.
• a proactive, hands-on approach.
• The ability to remain calm and focused in a busy environment.

Why Join Us?

At Yorkshire Garden Centres, we're passionate about creating GREAT experiences for our customers and colleagues alike. Pennine offers an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a busy catering operation, work alongside a supportive leadership team and play a key role in the continued success of the centre.

If you're an experienced hospitality leader who enjoys being hands-on, developing people and driving commercial success, we'd love to hear from you..

Company Overview

We are an independently owned business committed to our vision: to deliver great experiences for all the family. Through retail, food and play offerings in each of our retail destinations, we believe we have created a unique mix of brands that always deliver great experiences for families across multiple sites in Yorkshire.