Russell Mischel

Driving Sales, Client Satisfaction, and Maximizing Revenue as Operations Director at Aramark Student Nutrition / Collegiate Hospitality

Role
Director of Operations at Aramark
Location
Philadelphia, PA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Russell Mischel

As an accomplished and results-driven professional, I have comprehensive experience in monitoring and managing all business operations to deliver sustainable/profitable growth and value for a client/company. Using my key business experise and leveraging business best practices, I managed activities related to sales, finance, human resources, and customer service with full P&L accountability.Throughout my career experience, I promoted a culture of guest satisfaction, team member engagement, learning, and improvement by implementing robust business processes. I work well with business unit leaders and other key stakeholders. By utilizing exceptional communication skills, I established and nurtured strong relationships at all levels and achieved tangible business resilts. I oversaw overall development activities, including strategy creation, customer negotiations, contract review, and pricing/costing to exceed defined revenue, profitability, and other KPI\'s. My excellent talent management skills enabled me to hire, lead, and motivate cross-functional teams to surpass client goals, objectives, requirements, and expectations. By offering visionary operational oversight for Packer Avenue facility, I generated approximately $900,00 every month in revenue. During my tenure at Chickie\'s and Pete\'s as Operations Director, I produced ROI averaging 18% on annual F&B revenue of $10.5M by leading and guiding a mangement team of 7 and a line staff of 160 members. Furthermore, I enhanced the experience of 1500 guests daily by providing high-quality products and superior restaurant services through maintenance of operational standards and the formation of innovative managment procedures. I supported Culinaire International in driving gross sales under contract exceeding $100M across 12 states by managing and executing Corporate Marketing Projects and associated unit-level promotions. To drive business growth, I mapped out marketing/concept repositioning strategies, introduced effective operational/costing procedures, created training/menu guidelines, and designed Loss Prevention tools. Additionally, at Lincoln Restaurant Group I guaranteed the optimal flow of operations at 25 units in 8 states by performing operational audits, standardizing corporate recruiting systems, and overseeing opening of new restaurant properties. Operations Management / Project & Program Governance / Strategic Planning & Execution / Business Retention & Governance / RFP Responses

Experience

  1. Director of Operations

    Aramark

    May 2024 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

    Oversite, Staffing, and Fiscal Management of Aramark account providing foodservice support and client catering at 30+ locations within the Delaware Valley.

Education

  • University of Denver

    Certificate, Executive Leadership and Organization

  • The University of Texas at Austin

    Bachelor of Science, General Business

  • Fort Worth Country Day

    College Prep Program

Skills

  • Customer Service
  • Training
  • New Business Development
  • Executive Management
  • Purchasing
  • Strategy
  • Food Service
  • Contract Management
  • Recruiting
  • Negotiation
  • Analytics
  • Sales
  • Troubleshooting
  • Account Management
  • Management
  • Team Building
  • Rfp
  • Consulting
  • Sales Management
  • Business Development
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Talent Management
  • Project Management
  • Restructuring
  • Venture Capital
  • Mergers
  • Contract Negotiation

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