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Boss being heartless provides basic feeding station (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

manager

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'boss' is the definition.
(I know that manager is a type of leader of organization)

'being heartless provides basic feeding station' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'being' could be 'man' (human being) and 'man' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ager' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for manager that I've seen before include "One in charge of staff" , "Sports team controller" , "Supervisor" , "Director" , "Ran game (anag.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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