Culinary Manager, F&B - FIFA World Cup 26™

• Developing overarching strategies for food and beverage operations that align with FIFA World Cup 26™ goals, ensuring consistency and quality across multiple venues and events. 

• Managing a team of food and beverage coordinators, chefs, vendors, and service staff across different venues, providing leadership, guidance, and support. 

• Collaborating with culinary teams to create event-specific menus that reflect the cultural diversity and preferences of attendees while meeting FIFA's standards. 

• Monitoring food safety standards, health regulations, and sustainability practices across all food and beverage operations to ensure compliance and guest safety. 

• Developing and managing budgets, monitoring expenses, and optimizing costs while maintaining high standards of service and quality. 

• Implementing strategies to enhance guest satisfaction through innovative F&B offerings, efficient service delivery, and personalized hospitality. 

• Conducting regular evaluations, gathering feedback from guests and stakeholders, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives to elevate service standards. 

• Oversee project milestones and deadlines  

• Manage project team and move work forward daily within team environment  

• Facilitate and lead F&B meetings with key staff and vendors  

• Manage and oversee onsite staff and vendors  

• Troubleshoot, anticipate and act proactively on all event aspects leading up to and onsite  

• Assist with proposals and pitch meetings   

• Maintain and manage client relationships  

• Update senior management  

Administrative & Other Responsibilities  

• Expense Reports  

• Process Invoices  

• File storage  

• Weekly hours billing reports  

Other Duties & Responsibilities  

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of the employee's activities, duties, or responsibilities for this job.  Duties, obligations, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.  

You Have These:  

• Any combination of training, education, and experience equivalent to graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor’s Degree in Restaurant/Hospitality Management, Food Service Management, or a related field.  

• Considerable (3-5 years) full-time, progressively responsible experience in the food and beverage industry preferably including catering, and concession work (example: scheduling staff and events, training employees, selecting and ordering products, inventory control, and menu preparation). 

• Proficient user of Microsoft Office Suite | Adobe Acrobat | Zoom | DocuSign 

• Highly organized and process-oriented  

• Attention to detail, carefully following instructions and checking work for accuracy  

• Ability to multi-task and remain calm in high-pressure situations  

• Strong communication, interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills  

• Good timekeeping and work ethic that is characterized by commitment, motivation, and energy  

We’d Love If You Also Have These:   

• Knowledge of FileMaker| Keynote | SharePoint | Smartsheets | Microsoft Teams | Zoom  

• Prior experience with large-scale sporting events a plus  

• Flexibility and positive attitude to work long days, evenings, weekends and holidays when necessary  

Travel: Must be adaptable with work and travel schedule and be available to travel for work during holidays.  This position may require up to 30-40% travel.  

How we work:   

Endeavor is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 4 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.   

Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.