Ref: QP966-18

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Alpha Flight Group Limited is a leading provider of innovative catering and retail services at several international airports. Alpha Flight Services UAE LLC is a dynamic food service company employing 500 employees, operating both business to business services as well as a wide range of generic branded consumer food and beverage outlets. This company is based at Sharjah International Airport.

We currently have an exciting opportunity that has become available for an experienced and qualified Pricing and Cost Specialist to join our successful business.

The position:
To perform key role in pricing, costing and budgeting of the catering products related to company’s both, inflight and F&B operations and to provide a clear view of the company’s performance in the said areas through management reports and analysis.

Responsibilities:
- To manage and control food and beverage cost and pricing.
- Responsible for building and managing data tracking models to ensure robust data capture across the catering organization.
- Works with external data sources and other teams to incorporate information relevant to catering into monthly performance reports and dashboards.
- To provide a pricing overview by generating reports using historical data.
- To advise Finance Manager on pricing and cost changes and the impact of such changes on business performance.
- To develop, implement and manage pricing and cost models to support day to day business decisions.
- Drives the use of intelligence data throughout the catering team to improve decision making.
- To perform cost control exercise periodically to identify non value adding as well as to provide alternates within prescribed parameters without effecting company’s quality and customer satisfaction standards.
- To extract data from the system and generate different reports to enhance costing decision making.
- To Liaise with F&B team and guide them in controlling costs and establishing market competitive prices.
- To supervise pricing and costing section by providing guidelines to the relevant subordinates in performing day to day, as well as periodic activities.
- To prepare projected performance reports to determine variations from the budget and to suggest necessary actions to Finance Manager for keeping actual figures in line with budget.
- To investigate the differences between the actual and theoretical results and report the variances to Finance Manager.
- Supports development of Pricing Assistant team and others within catering to develop better business analysis and decision making

Requirements

- CMA / Masters in Finance or Accounting
- Culinary or F&B Certificates would be an advantage
- 3-5 years’ work experience or equivalent in QSR multi-unit
- Experience in high-end F&B establishment is a plus.
- Proven ability to communicate and work in team with kitchen staff
- Effective leadership and team player
- Capable of motivating and supporting a team

About the Company

Making Travel Special is about knowing what customers want. We recognise that by serving our customers, we're also serving their customers. That's why we talk about the promises our customers make. In this way, we delight our customers and their passengers, even as we continue to challenge ourselves to become the most admired provider in the world.

We treat customers like they are our guests. And because they expect food to be good and wholesome, we maintain the highest global quality assurance standards. What's more, our teams of experienced, dedicated professionals go the extra mile to provide innovative, efficient and reliable services for every single one of them.

Over the years, we've become a global player. In the coming decades, we'll continue to transform our industry by staying true to our core values.

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