Job Description

Company Description

Calling all experience creators!

Let’s go to the pub!” Chances are, it’s one of ours. The cornerstone of over 350 Australian communities, ALH owns and operates more pubs than anyone. In every community, the pub is where stories are made and retold. A place to escape, and feel at home. With passion on tap, our team adds to every pub’s story. A great local is made up of great people. And together, both sides of the bar create something special.

Job Description

• Write your story, leave your mark
• Provide strategic direction, governance and operational oversight of food safety compliance across a national portfolio 300+ pub kitchens
• Based in Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney

As the Senior Manager Food Safety, you will provide strategic direction, governance, and operational oversight of food safety compliance across our national portfolio of 350 Hotel kitchens.

Operating within a high-volume, multi-site hospitality environment, this role ensures adherence to Australian food standards through developing tailored programs and training specifically designed for Pub kitchens.

You’ll translate complex regulatory frameworks into practical, kitchen-floor realities, fostering a robust food safety culture across diverse culinary teams.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

Strategic Governance & Food Safety Culture

• National Strategy: Design, deploy, and evolve a unified Food Safety Management System (FSMS) tailored for a multi-site, national hotel group
• Culture & Training: Drive a proactive, behaviour-based food safety culture across 350 kitchens. Partner with Learning & Development to deliver scalable, practical and effective food handler training programs

Australian Regulatory Compliance

• Food Standards Code: Ensure compliance with the FSANZ (Food Standards Australia New Zealand) Food Standards Code
• State & Territory Alignment: Standardise compliance across varying state regulations to ensure a consistent national standard is created for the group

Food Safety Quality & Incidents

• Supplier Assurance & Auditing: Support our Procurement team with the tools and guidance to ensure our vendors have the relevant food safety accreditation; govern a tiered audit program for high-risk foods, scaling frequency and depth based on vendor risk, accreditations, and NCR data
• Quality Framework: Implement a data-driven quality framework and verification schedule across all 350 properties, leveraging digital compliance platforms for real-time risk visibility

Technology

• Develop a strategy to ensure allergen notifications are updated through a system control within ALH menus and customer facing materials
• Oversee solution design and implementation of any Food Safety technology utilised across the group and develop strategies to ensure allergen notifications are updated through a system control

Qualifications

Now let’s talk about you:

• Tertiary qualification in Food Science or related field of study
• Minimum 5–7 years of food safety management experience, ideally operating across a high-volume, multi-site hospitality or QSR environment
• Formal HACCP credentials
• Demonstrated experience in building, embedding and maintaining a Food Safety Management Program
• Sound understanding of Food Safety in particular relating to the management of hazards
• Deep, practical understanding of FSANZ Food Standards Codes, state-based Food Acts, GMP, and the application of behaviour-based food safety culture models
• Proven track record in continuous improvement

The benefits are good too!

• An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation, BWS, Dan Murphy’s and other Endeavour Group brands. Through our partnership with Woolworths, you'll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W
• As a valued member of the team, your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big
• Find out more about our range of benefits and discounts here

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

We are together creators

We’re big, but part of something much bigger. ALH is in good company, sitting alongside the likes of Dan Murphy’s, BWS, Pinnacle Drinks within the Endeavour Group. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about having a good time - creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to. We’re all about creating a more sociable future, together - for our customers and each other.

#WeAreTogetherCreators #ComeAsYouAre #DreamBig #FeelTheEnergy #LeaveYourMark #ALH #EndeavourGroup

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au

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