A good catering manager/director must have the ability to wear many hats. You aren’t a chef, but you’ll be involved in menu design. You aren’t a typical office manager, but you must be adept at managing budgets. You must be an excellent communicator, to staff and customers alike.    ˜Catering manager’ and ˜catering director’ are essentially interchangeable terms. However, at large-scale hotels and catering businesses, there might be a catering director and multiple catering managers working for them.