Advocate Health Care

Director Food & Nutrition

Advocate Health Care$122K — $183K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Dietetics, Hospitality Management, Business or related field.
  • 7 years of experience in food service within a multi-hospital setting or multi-regional operations.
  • 3 years of management experience in healthcare management.
  • Advanced skills in food and nutrition programs, hospitality, and customer service.
  • Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and execute strategic operational plans for food and nutrition services.
  • Develop standardized work processes and implement best practices for systemization.
  • Oversee new construction and remodeling projects for service facilities.
  • Ensure compliance with food management and safety regulations across all sites.
  • Lead initiatives for team member retention and recruitment.
  • Manage product compliance and inventory safety for patient and retail operations.
  • Set efficiency targets for logistics and site operations.

Benefits

  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Comprehensive health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, and vision
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare expenses
  • Family benefits including adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer matching
  • Educational Assistance Program
Full Job Description
Department:

11330 Support Operations Division - Food and Nutrition: Virginia Street

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

M-F

Pay Range:
$59.00 - $88.50

Major Responsibilities:
  • Directly accountable to establish and execute upon strategic plan and leading enterprise-wide operational strategies. Develops, communicates, and executes all strategic innovative planning initiatives.
  • Directly accountable for the development of standardized work processes, including the utilization of best practices driving systemization.
  • Oversees new projects including construction and remodeling.
  • Directs and executes regulatory agency standards/ initiatives- oversight of the food management, food safety process and clinical nutrition practices.
  • Ensures a continuous improvement mindset in relation to Advocate Aurora food management/safety audit process.
  • Directs and executes retention and recruiting initiatives for both FNS team members and managers, assuring all retention strategies are implemented and documented
  • Identifies and leads initiatives around the implementation of new products and services at sites.
  • Leads the product compliance for patient and retail menu utilization across all sites operations from an inventory management and safety perspective.
  • Establishes all efficiency targets for site operations and logistics.
  • Accountable for Team Member and Customer satisfaction in regard to site operations.
  • Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which include interviewing and selection of new employees, promotions, staff development, performance evaluations, compensation changes, resolution of employee concerns, corrective actions, terminations, and overall employee morale.
  • Develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.
  • Responsible for understanding and adhering to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that personal actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply with the policies, regulations and laws applicable to the organization's business.

Education Required:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Dietetics, or
  • Bachelor's Degree in Hospitality Management, or
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field.

Experience Required:
  • Typically requires 7 years of experience in food service a large or multi- hospital setting or multi-regional enterprise operations. Includes 3 years of management experience in healthcare management.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:
  • Solving complex problems using sophisticated analytical thought /judgement to identify innovative solutions.
  • Advanced and expert level skills in food and nutrition programs, practices, hospitality, and customer service.
  • Experience leading teams and complex projects with significant resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.
  • Ability in interpreting internal and external business challenges and recommends solutions/best practices to improve products, processes, and services.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills. Ability to communicate difficult concepts, and negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view.
  • Experience in leading and facilitating group meetings and projects.
  • Strong interpersonal, organizational, and customer service skills- able to maintain a calm, professional demeanor under pressure exhibiting effective crisis management skills.
  • Self-directed and independent in decision making.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Effective oral and written communication skills, organizational abilities, priority management, and statistical analysis abilities.
  • Ability to design and conduct educational programs and presentations.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
  • This position requires travel, therefore, will be exposed to weather and road conditions.
  • Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.
  • Exposed to a normal office environment.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Compensation
  • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
  • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
  • Incentive pay for select positions
  • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance


Benefits and more
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
  • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
  • Educational Assistance Program


Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
Learn more about Advocate Health Care
Size
75,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1976

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