Lessing’s Inc Hiring for Learning and Development Manager at Great River, NY Full Time

Job description

Lessing’s… A Legacy of Remarkable Hospitality.

OUR MISSION: To continue our 130+ year tradition of innovation and excellence – providing unique restaurant concepts, exclusive wedding venues, distinctive catering, and skillfully executed food service management.

The oldest family-owned, continuously operated, highly diverse food service company in the United States is Lessing’s in Great River, New York. The company was founded by Maxwell Lessing in 1890 and is operated to this day by 15 family members representing six generations of Lessings. Today Lessing’s operates 80 Contract Food Service locations in Education and in Business & Industry, five Main Street restaurants, one brunch concept, three fine-dining restaurants, nineteen catering facilities, a country inn and five Blaze Fast Fire’d Pizza franchises. The company employs more than 1,500 people, and is now ranked in the top 40 food service companies in the U.S. This highly complex and diversified food service company is still managed by the present generation of Lessings. The Lessing family has provided food service to New Yorkers for over 125 years without interruption. Both the longevity and the success of this legacy company is unprecedented, especially in the food service and restaurant business.

Lessing’s Hospitality Group is seeking a Learning & Development Manager who will plan, implement and design divisional and departmental training programs which promote a culture of excellence in operations. As the LDM, your role will be to provide expert project management and collaboration with the company’s management teams to assess, develop and deliver all training initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate & lead training programs ensuring all employees receive required training and perform gap analysis to identify areas and opportunity for improvement.
• Ensures effective performance that drives desired culture and result
• Maintains and creates innovative user-friendly tools and development education for both managers and team members.
• Edits & produces new instructional training materials
• Ensure all training enrollments meet department directives
• Writes and/or assists with scripts, reports related to training and/or business initiatives
• Provide classroom lessons, self-paced assignments, hand-outs, job aids, training plans, analysis, quizzes and reporting
• Identify measures of success and business impact and routinely communicates progress to HR leadership.
• Collaborates with business unit stake holders to listen & analyze training needs and implement solutions
• Oversee, develop, and lead training program(s) and team of trainers that take ownership of Team Member training and development and produce a high performance team.
• Cast a vision for training and bring the trainers and team to the next level.
• Manage and maintain training tracking system and hold trainers accountable to updating as they train.
• Identifies “career” talent and promotes and fosters the growth/development for progression in the Company.

Job Requirements:

• Proven track record as a Trainer
• Bachelors’ Degree in business, finance or relevant field from accredited college
• Three to five years relevant experience in implementing organizational development intervention.
• Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills
• Phenomenal communication, organizational and time management skills
• Energize talent by intentionally influencing, building, and maintaining a compelling culture that produces high performance teams.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

Experience:

• Training & development: 3 years (Preferred)
• Hospitality: 3 years (Preferred)
• Organizational management: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: One location