Global Senior Workplace Manager, Food and BeverageActive$206K

Databricks
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The opportunity

Databricks is one of the world’s fastest-growing data and AI companies—an industry leader transforming how organizations harness the power of their data. As we scale rapidly across the globe, we’re seeking an experienced, Global Workplace Services, Food & Beverage Lead to…

What you'll do

  • Global F&B Strategy: Define the strategy for all food and beverage touchpoints, including full-service cafes, micro-kitchens, barista/boba bars, event catering, pop-up vendors, and executive dining across all regions. Include a comprehensive operational roadmap, and timeline.

  • Vendor Governance & IFM Management: Lead the selection, contract negotiations, and performance management of Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) partners and premier corporate dining vendors (e.g., Compass Group, Guckenheimer, Aramark, Bon Appétit). Oversee global contracts and relationships with F&B vendors, catering teams, and local suppliers.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with internal stakeholders—including Internal Communications, People/HR, Executive Assistants, Corporate Marketing, IT/AV, Security, events and experience teams, and local workplace leaders and specialists—to ensure seamless daily operations.

  • Financial Management & Auditing: Oversee the global F&B budget, ensuring consistency across regions. Establish cost-per-head controls, invoice auditing, financial forecasting, and key metrics to measure food and beverage impact to inform future programming.

  • Health, Safety, & Sustainability: Enforce global food safety compliance, ensure we are compliant with local permitting and regulations, and drive corporate sustainability goals (e.g., zero food waste initiatives, sustainable sourcing, compostable packaging, smart tracking).

  • Data-Driven Program Optimization: Monitor office utilization trends and badge-swipe data to align meal production with actual office attendance, drastically reducing waste and maximizing efficiency. Adapt seamlessly to shifting headcounts and evolving needs of dynamic, fast-growing business units.

What they're looking for

  • Space Planning & Culinary Design: Collaborate with the Real Estate & Design/Build teams on kitchen, servery, and micro-kitchen layouts during new office build-outs and expansions.
  • Strategic Stakeholder management: Provide exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, and diplomatic capabilities to seamlessly collaborate with, influence, and align global cross-functional stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
  • Global Standards & Playbooks: Develop standardized global playbooks, service-level agreements (SLAs), and operational guidelines for local workplace teams to execute events consistently across regions.
  • Technical Fluency: Approach process and procedure with technical competency utilizing food and beverage management platforms, cross-functional collaborative tools (such as Asana, Slack, Zoom, and mobile F&B applications), and AI to drive efficiency and analyze data.