A2L Program 2025 - Food Service Manager - Purdue University

Job Description

Aramark’s Accelerate to Leadership (A2L) Program offers early career talent valuable work experience, mentorship from industry leaders, and professional training across a variety of environments and business areas. As a year-long development and training program designed for recent college graduates, A2L provides you with the resources you need to ignite your full potential and launch an accelerated career path at Aramark. 

 

Selected candidates will have the opportunity to take on leadership roles within Aramark while participating in structured program activities and developmental exercises tailored to each candidate’s career track. For the thousands of students and recent grads that call Aramark home, we provide a place to grow, advance, and impact lives across a range of exciting industries and locations. 

 

Aramark’s A2L Program is committed to fostering communities rooted in service, inclusion, and shared prosperity, empowering all individuals to make an impact. 

Job Responsibilities

Management position, responsible for executing dining solutions to meet customer needs and tastes.  Oversees and manages dining operations where customers order prepared food from a menu.

Essential Functions:

• Leadership: Leverage Aramark's coaching model to engage and develop team members to their fullest potential. Reward and recognize employees.  Ensure individual and team performance meets objectives and client expectations.  Plan and lead daily team briefings.  Ensure safety and sanitation standards in all operations.
• Client Relationship: Maintain effective client and customer rapport for mutually beneficial business relationships. Identify client needs and communicate operational progress.  Demonstrate excellent customer service using Aramark's standard service model.
• Financial Performance: Ensure the completion and maintenance of P&L statements. Deliver client and company financial targets.  Adopt all Aramark processes and systems, understand performance metrics, data, order and inventory trends; educate teams on key levers to improve margins.
• Productivity: Create value through efficient operations, appropriate cost controls, and profit management. Comply with the Operational Excellence fundamentals by meeting and maintaining food and labor initiatives.  Ensure entire team is trained and able to execute.  Supervise team regarding production, quality and control.
• Compliance: Maintain a safe and healthy environment for clients, customers and employees. Comply with all applicable policies, rules and regulations, including but not limited to those relating to safety, health, and wage and hour.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Manage Front of House (Cafeteria, Food Court, Quick Service) dining operations
• Develop and implement retail services plan to improve service, quality and profitability of service areas.  
• Maintain effective working relationships with other departments to provide a unified retail experience for customers.  

Qualifications

 

•  To be considered eligible, applicants must graduate between December – August of the current school year for the rising A2L Program class 
• This program will start in July. All degree requirements must be completed prior to the start date of the program (including any final internship requirements). 
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and not require work authorization sponsorship by Aramark for this position now or in the future 
• PREFERRED EXPERIENCE 
• A degree or background in hospitality, customer service, food service, facilities, operations, or sales 
•  Relevant coursework or work experience 
•  Strong leadership, project management, and execution skills 
•  Great verbal, written, and professional communication skills with teammates, customer