Kitchen Manager

Job DescriptionAs a Kitchens Manager, you will be responsible for leading and overseeing a cluster of cloud kitchens, optimizing their financial performance, managing high-intensity day-to-day operations, and maintaining excellent relationship metrics with restaurant partners. Your main objective is to lead a dedicated frontline operational team to ensure seamless service delivery while maintaining rigorous food safety and operational standards. Core Responsibilities: Cluster Management & Day-to-Day Operations: Overlook and manage all aspects of daily operations across multiple kitchen sites to ensure consistency, speed, and quality of service delivery.P&L & Financial Management: Take full accountability for the cluster's profit and loss (P&L) statements, actively identify and implement measures to optimize operational costs (including wastage controls, utility usage, and resource deployment) while aggressively seeking innovative avenues to maximize revenue, boost kitchen utilization, to ultimately achieve allocated targets Team Leadership & Development: Directly lead, mentor, and inspire a dedicated team of supervisors and dispatchers. Ensure efficient shift management, resource planning, and accountability to key operational KPIs across all locations to guarantee that delivery services run smoothly.Partner Relationship Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for restaurant brands operating within the cluster. Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationship scores by proactively troubleshooting day-to-day difficulties, resolving conflicts, and securing long-term partner happiness.Food Safety & Regulatory Compliance: Enforce strict compliance with municipal health codes, global food safety benchmarks, and corporate health, safety, and environmental (HSE) standard requirements across all locations. Maintain zero tolerance for safety infractions through continuous monitoring and routine internal audits. Manage relationship with talabat in-house food safety team, and local authorities in areas of operationsPerformance Tracking & Governance: Establish, evaluate, and monitor operational performance metrics (e.g., order prep time,vendor delay, fail rate, contact rate, ratings ). Drive corrective action plans in alignment with cross-functional stakeholders when discrepancies are spotted.