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Key responsibilities

  • Leading end-to-end hospitality catering delivery, from concept development through to tournament execution
  • Developing innovative culinary concepts and menus in close collaboration with internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment with UEFA hospitality standards
  • Overseeing cost control, menu engineering and supplier management to ensure value for money and excellence in delivery
  • Conducting and contributing to site visits with UEFA teams and commercial partners, assessing stadium and surrounding catering facilities
  • Aligning and standardising catering operations across all nine venues to ensure consistent food quality, service, safety and presentation
  • Acting as the hospitality catering expert and primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clear and timely communication
  • Setting and managing project timelines, priorities and budgets, fostering a client-centric culture and high-quality delivery throughout

Requirements

Experience:

  • from 4-6 years experience in large-scale venue, stadium or hospitality operations, involving multiple matchdays or event days
  • from 4-6 years experience leading catering strategy and innovation for large-scale events

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in hotel catering management, event management or equivalent qualification in hospitality and catering

Languages:

  • English / proficient

Other requirements:

  • Relocation to Switzerland/France is expected
  • Thorough knowledge of compliance standards
  • Passionate about delivering industry-leading guest experiences through exceptional food and service, striving for the best possible outcome, raising the standards of European football and contributing to UEFA’s positive reputation
  • Open and approachable, shares information, listens to others, is non-judgemental and encourages diversity
  • Team player, establishes cross-divisional cooperation and collaborates with the football community
  • Cares about football, colleagues and the wider football community, acts respectfully and contributes to a positive working environment

 

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About UEFA:

UEFA – the Union of European Football Associations – is the game’s governing body in Europe. It is a representative democracy, and is the umbrella organisation for 55 national football associations across Europe.

Our objectives are, among other things, to deal with all questions relating to European football, to promote football in a spirit of unity, solidarity, peace, understanding and fair play, without any discrimination on the basis of politics, race, religion, gender or any other reason, to safeguard the values of European football, to maintain relations with all stakeholders involved in European football, and to support and safeguard its member associations for the overall well-being of the European game.

We have a clear vision: a united European football family working together to improve enjoyment of the game.

 

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