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Chesterfield, Missouri

• Responsible for the strategic leadership and direct management and development of a multi-unit department, including the cooking schools, creative team, Starbucks and support staff.
• Overall administrative duties of the department including, but not limited to resource allocation, operations, budgeting and goal setting.
• Fiscal responsibility for the department to keep it healthy and on pace for growth.
• Developed, defined and oversee the company's wellness initiative.
• Responsible for developing alignment with other departments, suppliers, external resources to ensure best possible execution for on-trend, value-added ideas for customers.
• Evaluate customer insights to identify key areas for growth in programming and core messaging.

Washington University In St. Louis

• Multi-site management experience including 125,000 sq. feet of meeting space, dining room, executive lounge, an Einstein Bros. Bagels, Starbucks, and café locations, off-site catering, and three additional catering.
• Responsible for the installation of an Einstein Bros. Bagels, Bauer Café and Starbucks on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. Including coordination of construction between construction contractor.
• Planned and conducted market research on campus to develop new branded foodservice outlets to be constructed in Olin Business School. Once brands were established, coordinated construction timelines, parameters.
• Developed and maintained new processes and procedures for cross-department communication, client relations, level of customer expectations and documentation of requests and activities.
• Increased revenue of conference center through up-selling, maintaining excellent working relationships with clients, while actively seeking new business opportunities. Recruited three new lines of business for ARAMARK.