General Manager

General Manager, Contract Catering | Sellafield, Cumbria | £60,000 per annum 

What’s in it for the successful General Manager?

• Salary £60,000 per annum
• 28 days holiday, including bank holidays
• Your birthday off every year
• 3 volunteering days and 3 days grandparent leave
• Wedding or commitment day leave
• 24 weeks enhanced maternity leave and secondary carer leave
• Free meals on shift
• Pension and life insurance
• Employee discounts app — high street, holidays and cinema
• Wellbeing hub and access to an employee assistance programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Bespoke training and development, including apprenticeship opportunities at every level

Tonic are pleased to partner with our client to recruit a General Manager to lead a varied and growing contract catering operation at a major industrial site in Cumbria. This isn’t a single-site role. You’ll be overseeing a diverse estate that spans traditional canteen-style dining, coffee shops, grab-and-go units and mobile catering — with a pipeline of new opportunities already in development. The operation is predominantly Monday to Friday, breakfast and lunch, though flexibility will be needed as the service expands. You’ll be the one setting the standard — for food quality, for service culture, for how the team develops — while managing the commercial and strategic performance of the full contract. 

What are we looking for from General Manager candidates?

• Proven experience as a General Manager within contract catering or a large multi-outlet operation
• Strong commercial acumen — confident owning P&L, budgets and KPI delivery across financial, H&S, sustainability and governance
• A genuine people developer — mentoring, empowering and recognising your team is as important to you as the numbers
• Skilled at building credible, collaborative relationships with clients and key stakeholders
• A track record of creating high-performing team cultures with uncompromising food and service standards
• Strategic thinker — able to plan and implement across the full catering operation, including mobilisation of new units and marketing activity
• A natural eye for commercial opportunity — always looking at where the operation can grow and improve

If you are interested in this role or would like to find out more, get in touch with the team at Tonic today.