Team Leader Cafeteria (80%)

Our cafeteria at Campus Buchs is a meeting point, place of encounter, and culinary contact point for students, employees, and guests. Due to an upcoming retirement, we are looking for you as a Team Leader Cafeteria (80%) for our location in Buchs SG as of 1 November 2026. For the leadership of our cafeteria team, we desire an engaged personality with a heart for gastronomy, joy in leading people, and the ambition to offer our guests a positive experience daily. ###

Your tasks

• Technical and personnel leadership of the cafeteria team as well as promoting appreciative cooperation
• Active participation in daily business
• Planning, organizing, and further developing an attractive and contemporary catering range
• Responsibility for purchasing, procurement, as well as inventory management
• Planning and conducting caterings and apéros
• Ensuring compliance with quality, hygiene, safety, and environmental standards
• Creating duty and deployment schedules as well as guaranteeing smooth operational processes
• Monitoring budgets, costs, and settlements as well as participating in annual planning
• Implementing marketing and sales promotion measures as well as further developing offers and services
• Maintaining cooperation with internal and external stakeholders

Your qualification

• Completed training in the gastronomy sector, ideally with experience in production, catering, or event gastronomy
• Several years of professional experience in gastronomy
• Several years of leadership experience as well as joy in motivating and further developing employees
• Strong host mentality as well as high service and customer orientation
• Organizational skills as well as an independent and structured way of working
• Networked and entrepreneurial thinking as well as the ability to maintain an overview even in demanding situations
• Very good German skills
• Good user knowledge of common MS Office programs

Your benefits with us

Questions regarding the application process

Sabrina Sem
HR Business Partner
sabrina.sem@ost.ch

About the OST

The OST - Ostschweizer Fachhochschule is an intercantonal and interstate university of applied sciences with locations in Buchs, Rapperswil-Jona, and St.Gallen. With excellent Bachelor's and Master's degree programs as well as up-to-date continuing education, we train future-oriented specialists and managers. In the area of application-oriented research and development as well as services, we are among the leading institutions nationally.