Full-Time

General Manager

Lakeside Cafe

Posted on 6/11/2025

WSH Group

WSH Group

No salary listed

Senior

Workington, UK

Category
Generalist Operations
Quality Control & Compliance
Operations & Logistics
Required Skills
Customer Service
Requirements
  • Previous experience in a multi site management role
  • Have a contagious passion for food and customer service
  • You draw satisfaction from managing, training, and supporting a team
  • Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance
  • Excellent delegation and influencing skills
  • Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to work well under pressure
  • Meticulous organisational abilities; high attention to detail
  • Concise and effective verbal and written communication
  • Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective
  • Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
  • Works according to the BaxterStorey core values
Responsibilities
  • Lead, inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards
  • Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships & communication methods with clients and other key stakeholders in the business
  • Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment
  • Create a culture of excellence with your team, continually striving to push the boundaries of brilliance through natural caring service, obsessive food standards and innovation
  • Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance
  • Drive Sales and customer experience throughout the year both peak and off peak times.

Company Size

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Company Stage

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Total Funding

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Headquarters

Reading, United Kingdom

Founded

2011

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Rising demand for plant-based products drives innovation in foodservice.
  • Ghost kitchens offer expansion opportunities without physical dining spaces.
  • AI in supply chain management enhances efficiency and transparency.

What critics are saying

  • Shift to plant-based diets may reduce demand for traditional catering.
  • Rising free-range egg costs could impact WSH's sourcing commitments.
  • Labor shortages may hinder service quality and client satisfaction.

What makes WSH Group unique

  • WSH Group's Mosaic offers flexible catering solutions for post-Covid workplaces.
  • Commitment to 100% RSPCA Assured British free-range eggs enhances WSH's ESG credentials.
  • Supplier Code of Conduct sets 11 targets for improved sourcing standards and transparency.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Company News

Public Sector Catering
Feb 14th, 2024
WSH commits to 100% RSPCA Assured British free-range eggs

As part of their ESG commitments, WSH launched a 'Supplier Code of Conduct' in which 11 targets were set in a bid to continually raise the bar on sourcing standards and transparency across the foodservice supply chain.

Food Service Equipment Journal
Aug 17th, 2021
Westbury Street Holdings launches Mosaic

Westbury Street Holdings launched Mosaic, a subscription-based contract catering model, as part of a move to offer clients flexible solutions in a post-Covid workplace.