Food And Nutrition Manager Jobs in Rochester, MN

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The Senior Director, Enterprise Food Operations serves as Mayo Clinic's enterprise leader and owner's representative for nonpatient food service operations, enterprise food service governance, operational performance, retail and unattended services, financial and contract compliance, innovation enablement, sustainability, and cross domain execution across all Mayo Clinic sites. This role is accountable for defining and maintaining enterprise standards, operating frameworks, performance expectations, governance structures, and implementation discipline within a contracted service delivery model. Accountability is held at the system level, supporting consistency in outcomes, experience, performance, and execution across all sites.

The Senior Director provides enterprise level leadership by translating strategic priorities into measurable standards, playbooks, operating cadence, and clear expectations. The role partners closely with site leadership, patient dining and nutrition leadership, vendor partners, finance, supply chain, and enterprise support functions to support consistent, reliable delivery aligned with Mayo Clinic's Category of One framework.

This role does not own patient dining, clinical nutrition, or nutrition and wellness domains, which are led through the parallel Senior Director, Patient Dining, Nutrition, and Wellness structure. Where domains intersect, the Senior Director, Enterprise Food Operations supports operational alignment, execution discipline, and coordinated enterprise performance without assuming patient dining or clinical nutrition accountability.

This is an enterprise level leadership role. Travel is required across Mayo Clinic sites and enterprise engagements to support system alignment, assessments, governance activities, vendor performance discussions, and strategic initiatives. This role will require extensive travel up to 75% of the time at times, but will be variable based on need and activities.

This is a Senior Director level enterprise role with systemwide accountability across nonpatient food service domains, distinct from site operational leadership positions. The Senior Director leads through standards, governance, operating cadence, and influence, ensuring enterprise consistency while respecting site and domain execution responsibilities.

The role balances operational performance, contract compliance, guest experience, retail and unattended services, innovation enablement, sustainability, and vendor execution within a complex, matrixed health system.

Core competencies include enterprise governance and operating model design, contract foodservice operations leadership at multi-site scale, financial performance, contract compliance, and operational metric discipline, vendor governance and performance accountability, executive communication and cross domain partnership, systems thinking, standardization, and change leadership.

Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare administration, hospitality, food service management, or related field, seven or more years of progressive leadership experience leading multi-unit operations across multiple sites or locations, demonstrated experience in contract managed environments in a senior operational leadership or contract management role, experience working within vendor partner delivery models with shared accountability for performance, and proven ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, enterprise environment.

Preferred qualifications include a Master's degree in healthcare administration, business, hospitality, or related field, experience in healthcare hospitality, food service, hospitality, facilities, or comparable service-based operations, and demonstrated experience leading or contributing to enterprise governance structures, systemwide standardization initiatives, and cross site performance improvement strategies.