Department Head Restaurants

About the job

The TRANSfair Foundation stands for labour integration, social responsibility and entrepreneurial development. Our restaurants are an important part of this mission. Currently, we operate four restaurant locations and are expanding our offering with a fifth location.

Do you want to combine gastronomy with social impact, lead with foresight and think entrepreneurially?

Then help shape the future of our growing restaurant organisation as

Department Head Restaurants (80–100 %)

Your tasks – you lead, manage and develop

Entrepreneurial and professional leadership

• You are responsible for the economic, professional and personnel development of the Restaurants department.
• You translate the company goals into concrete departmental objectives and ensure their implementation.
• You lead and coordinate the Human Resources and Work Specialists and ensure effective collaboration.
• You manage the further development of our restaurant locations and their gastronomic offerings.
• You ensure that quality standards, legal requirements as well as budget and deadline specifications are met.

Personnel leadership and development

• You create the ideal framework conditions to lead, support and further develop people with performance limitations.
• You foster a constructive leadership, feedback and collaboration culture.
• You are responsible for personnel planning and participate in staff selection.
• You advocate for high employee satisfaction and the individual development of employees.
• You ensure occupational safety and health protection in your department.

Planning, control and controlling

• You are responsible for the budget and resource planning of your department and ensure the economical use of available resources.
• You monitor relevant key figures such as turnover, costs, productivity and margins and derive appropriate measures.
• You review the effectiveness of processes and continuously develop structures and procedures.
• You keep an eye on target achievement and ensure transparent reporting to the division management.

Communication and representation

• You represent the department towards the division management, within the foundation and to external stakeholders.
• You maintain and develop customer relationships as well as relevant networks.
• You ensure close collaboration with the Kitchen Department Head, Gastronomy Product Management and other departments.
• You position our restaurants positively internally and externally and actively contribute to the foundation's further development.

Your profile – what you bring

• Identification with our social mission.
• A solid education in gastronomy, hospitality or the service sector, complemented by business or leadership training.
• Several years of leadership experience, ideally in an organisation with multiple locations.
• Experience in leading and developing people.
• Strong entrepreneurial thinking and business understanding as well as experience in budgeting, controlling and financial management.
• High organisational, planning and decision-making competence.
• Excellent communication skills as well as conflict and assertiveness skills.
• Willingness to change, innovative thinking and enjoyment of organisational development.

What awaits you at TRANSfair

• A versatile leadership role with high personal responsibility and scope for design.
• The opportunity to sustainably shape the orientation and further development of the restaurant department.
• A leadership role in a committed three-person leadership team (Human Resources and Work Specialists) with clear responsibilities.
• A meaningful working environment where economic performance and social responsibility belong together.
• Contemporary employment conditions and attractive development opportunities.

Would you like to make a difference with us?

Then we look forward to meeting you. Please send us your complete application (cover letter, CV, certificates, diplomas and salary expectations) by 30 November 2026 online on our website and become part of TRANSfair!