Manager, Food & Beverage Enablement

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury hotel management company in Toronto seeks a Manager for Food & Beverage Enablement on a 12-month contract. The role involves managing the global rollout of the F&B division's revenue planning tool, coordinating training, and supporting various teams across 130+ properties. Ideal candidates have ten years in comparable strategic roles with a solid analytical background and hospitality experience. This position offers a hybrid working model, requiring three days a week in the office.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in a fast-paced role supporting strategic projects.
• Hospitality, revenue management, or Meetings & Events experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage global rollout and adoption of revenue planning tool for F&B division.
• Organize training and communications to ensure effective platform use.
• Lead project management for the global Meetings & Events Optimization initiative.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Change management

Project management

Detail-oriented

Team player

Strong professionalism

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant field

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 120 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, Food & Beverage Enablement (12 Month Contract)

The Manager, Food & Beverage Enablement is primarily responsible for the global rollout, adoption and enablement of the company’s enterprise revenue planning tool for the Food & Beverage (F&B) division. This role has overall Project Management responsibilities, working cross-functionally with the Commercial, Technology, F&B, and Finance teams to make technical enhancements to the platform, embed the tool in the properties, and optimize adoption. To accomplish this, the Manager will liaise with internal teams and third-party vendors, manage a property taskforce, and directly support the F&B and Finance teams at the company’s 130+ properties globally.

The Manager will ensure that hotel teams understand, adopt, effectively and confidently use the platform by organizing structured training, communications, performance aids, and cross-functional alignment. In addition, the Manager will serve as the project manager for the global Meetings & Events Optimization initiative, a cross functional project aimed at elevating commercial effectiveness, forecasting accuracy, process consistency and systems utilization across the Meetings & Events lifecycle. The role coordinates stakeholder engagement, managing timelines and milestones, overseeing pilots, and ensuring that a rollout plan, enablement materials and adoption strategies are created.

Other projects may be assigned to support the planning and performance of the Food & Beverage division.

The ideal candidate will be a highly strategic thinker, possessing strong analytical and change management skills and displaying exceptional judgment. They will be positive, flexible, and a self-starter, always open to new challenges, as well as a strong team player. A keen eye for detail, the ability to work under tight deadlines, superb professionalism and strong project management skills are essential.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• Qualified candidates will have 10 years of experience working in a fast-paced comparable position, supporting delivery of major strategic projects.
• Hospitality, revenue management and/or Meetings & Events experience a plus.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Rollout, Adoption, Enablement

• Plan and manage implementation timeline, platform enhancements, and property engagement.
• To increase adoption, build and execute engagement, training, and communication plans, with support from F&B and Finance leadership.
• Liaise with internal Technology, Innovation, and Data (TID) team and third-party vendors to enhance the platform to optimize usage and adoption by all properties, and for all segments of F&B. This includes a solution and roadmap to transition OnPrem properties to RevPlan.
• Gather learnings from properties actively using the platform to support the implementation and adoption by others.
• Actively engage with property taskforce, ensuring they’re seen as Champions for the platform, and ensuring alignment on the support model globally.
• Engage with individual stakeholders to understand their perspective, challenges, and opportunities and be able to thoughtfully respond; address property tickets and questions in a timely manner.

Project Management

• Develop project plans and critical paths to guide the planning and execution of key strategic initiatives.
• Organize cross-functional teams across Commercial, Hotel Operations, Finance and Technology; regularly engage with all stakeholders to ensure milestones are delivered on time.
• Chair calls, capture minutes, set agendas, and manage follow-up to meetings. Own timelines, risks, issues and change impacts, communicating proactively to the project steering group.
• Facilitate pilot property selection, testing, feedback collection, and evaluation of outcomes.
• Develop clear recommendations, rollout sequencing, and enablement requirements for global adoption.
• Ensure that learnings are translated into replicable processes, performance aids, and training.

Analysis & Reporting

• With relevant Operations Leadership, drive accountability and measure success of implementation of these strategic initiatives.
• Conduct ongoing analysis to identify areas of opportunity.
• Create regular updates for Steering Committees, Executive Leadership Team, and other key stakeholders on initiative implementation and adoption.
• Cross Functional Coordination, Stakeholder Engagement
• Lead governance routines and alignment sessions that bring together Commercial, Operations, Finance and Technology leadership to ensure coordinated decision-making and consistent rollout direction.
• Incorporate Operations’ perspectives, requirements, and operational impacts into planning and implementation.
• Drive clear, consistent cross-functional communication and expectation-setting to support effective adoption and smooth program execution.

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 the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.