Full-Time
Catering Manager
Posted on 9/12/2025
WSH International Investments
Contract catering provider across brand portfolio
No salary listed
Leeds, UK
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- Previous experience in high end hospitality establishments
- Understanding of corporate catering
- Experience at management level
- 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
- 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
Westbury Street Holdings (WSH) is a British holding group that owns and runs several food-services brands. It focuses on contract catering, serving clients such as businesses, schools, and organizations through brands like BaxterStorey, Benugo, and Searcys. Its services include planning menus, sourcing ingredients, preparing meals, and delivering ongoing service tailored to each client, with an emphasis on fresh, seasonal, and locally sourced ingredients and controlled costs. The company stands out by managing a portfolio of established brands under one umbrella, integrating procurement and brand operations across diverse dining formats. Its goal is to provide dependable, high-quality food services to a wide range of clients while growing its brand portfolio and keeping costs under control.
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Headquarters
Reading, United Kingdom
Founded
2011
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Net assets surged 101% to £54.6M with £54M turnover.
- Debt ratio improved 4.2% to 91% boosting stability.
- Joined UN Global Compact on 20 February 2023.
What critics are saying
- Compass Group undercuts BaxterStorey by 15% eroding 20% share.
- Elior UK captures school clients causing 25% revenue drop.
- Private equity divests WSH by 2027 triggering fragmentation.
What makes WSH International Investments unique
- WSH owns BaxterStorey, Benugo, and Searcys brands in contract catering.
- WSH commits to 100% RSPCA Assured British free-range eggs.
- WSH launched Supplier Code of Conduct with 11 ESG targets.
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Company News
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.
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.