Manager, Corporate F&B Operations

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Toronto seeks a Manager, Corporate F&B Operations to lead global project management for Food & Beverage teams and SVP level. The role focuses on coordinating cross-functional initiatives and delivering on strategic plans.

You will work in a hybrid model, travel 10-15%, and align with stakeholders across commercial, insights and F&B to drive performance and enhancements.

Qualifications

• Minimum secondary school diploma; four-years bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience with managing brand level projects for a hospitality or development company.
• Minimum 5 years’ management experience, experience in Food and Beverage operations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage Global F&B Projects and reporting with stakeholders.
• Coordinate meetings, agendas, minutes and action plans.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Insights and F&B on Strategic Plan initiatives.

Skills

Analytical skills

Teamwork

TEAMS platform

Interpersonal skills

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Secondary school diploma

Tools

MS Project

PowerBi

Copilot

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.

At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location:

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 130 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.

Manager, Corporate F&B Operations

Our Corporate Food and Beverage Team is growing, and we have an exciting opening for a Manager, Corporate F&B Operations to join our Global Team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for focusing on providing global project management for the Food and Beverage teams and Senior Vice President, Food and Beverage. The duties and responsibilities span a wide range of project management activities requiring a candidate who is flexible, cooperative, and receptive to challenges.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Manage Global F&B Projects

• Manage and update regular reporting with project information. Update, analyze, and distribute reports. RT20M, Focus R&B, Nurture R&B.
• Hold stakeholders accountable to deadlines and other key milestones as necessary to keep projects on track – report exceptions to leadership as necessary (Gatekeeping).
• Collaborate and liaise with Commercial, Insights and F&B stakeholders on Strategic Plan initiatives and project work.
• Coordinate Licensing Partner/consultant meetings, performance reports and follow up action plans.
• Prepare meeting agendas and general minutes of all F&B meetings and distribute.
• Manage content updates as required for all F&B platforms on Sharepoint and iConnect.
• Assist F&B team with updating digital content on enterprise-level platforms.
• Act as liaison between VP’s of F&B as necessary for project management feedback.
• Attend interdepartmental meetings as needed in the absence of F&B team representation.
• Work with Analytics department to develop core requirements for key R&B/F&B projects and initiatives.
• Support new opening task force as requested by SVP F&B and VP’s F&B.

Other Responsibilities

• Support F&B Concept and Brand on an ad-hoc basis primarily focused on performance analysis and research.
• Prepare project updates, and process reports, and present to key stakeholders as required.
• Draft emails and other correspondence as needed for distribution to colleagues, field leadership, owners, and other key stakeholders.
• Prepare pre-travel information packages and handle on-ground coordination with meeting participants as needed.
• Allocate invoices (consultant, project expenses).
• Research information on requests to facilitate response to non-routine matters.
• Create and maintain file system and reference libraries for all responsible projects.
• Preparing and providing materials in advance of meetings, conference calls, trips, etc.
• Set up for meetings, room reservations, catering, etc.
• Ability to create professional presentations for business meetings.

What You Bring:

• Minimum secondary school diploma; four-years bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience with managing brand level projects for a hospitality or development company.
• Minimum 5 years’ management experience, experience in Food and Beverage operations preferred.

Key Skills/Who You Are:

• Positive and professional attitude is necessary.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Proficiency with TEAMS platform.
• Excellent grammar and spelling skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and positive attitude toward teamwork.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced work environment and handle several projects/deadlines.
• Great team player, but able to work independently with some degree of ambiguity.
• Fostering collaboration with internal stakeholders and liaison with developers, owners, and consultants on a regular basis.

Technical Skills:

• Microsoft, Office 365.
• Proficiency with MS Project or other project software.
• Copilot.
• PowerBi.

Travel:

• 10-15%

Annual Base Salary Range:

$90,000 – $110,000 CAD + additional rewards as part of the total compensation package.

This role will be a Hybrid working model, which will require 3 days per week in the Four Seasons Corporate Office located at 1165 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario #LI-Hybrid

Four Seasons is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with theOntario Human Rights Code and theAccessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.