Assistant General Manager - Southbank

Caravan Restaurants and Coffee Roasters; Greater London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals & drinks on shift

50% dining discount

20% coffee retail discount

Wellbeing support

Financial health education & support

Leadership training and development

Dining voucher on start/birthday/work-

Internal career progression

Job summary

Caravan Restaurants and Coffee Roasters is opening its tenth and largest Caravan at the Southbank in London. We’re seeking an exceptional Assistant General Manager to lead our restaurant team with kindness, confidence and a passion for hospitality.

You’ll work with the General Manager to run day-to-day operations, set health and safety standards, develop the team and uphold our service excellence and Caravan culture, with real opportunities for growth from day one.

Responsibilities

• Ensure our food, drink, and service standards are consistently delivered
• Recruit, onboard and develop confident, high-performing teams: making sure new hires feel welcome and everyone has clear training, reviews and development plans
• Drive sales, labour, GP, and wastage targets while protecting the Caravan culture
• Manage systems including Fourth, Harri and All Gravy to oversee the rota, payroll and compliance
• Maintain property standards, health & safety, and compliance with EHO/Food Alert
• Contribute to management meetings, audits, and action plans

Job description

Overall earnings from £46,000-£50,000 per year, plus bonus scheme

Full time

This November, we’re opening our tenth, and biggest, Caravan at the Southbank. And we’re looking for an exceptional Assistant General Manager to help lead our restaurant team. We’re after someone kind, confident and genuinely passionate about what they do. Someone who knows how to lead and inspire a team, is passionate about being a hospitality leader, and gets a kick out of helping their team develop and give their guests the best experience possible

You’ll be joining Caravan as we open a special new restaurant, with two floors, multiple bars and plenty of opportunity to make your mark from day one.

The role

As Assistant General Manager, you’ll work alongside your General Manager and the management team to make sure the day-to-day operation of the business runs brilliantly every day. That means setting the standard for health & safety, culture, hospitality and developing the team around you to make sure every guest that leaves the restaurant has the best experience possible. You’ll know how to lead from the front, when to coach and when to jump in and help get things moving.

What you'll be doing as Assistant General Manager

• Ensure our food, drink, and service standards are consistently delivered
• Recruit, onboard and develop confident, high-performing teams: making sure new hires feel welcome and everyone has clear training, reviews and development plans
• Drive sales, labour, GP, and wastage targets while protecting the Caravan culture
• Manage systems including Fourth, Harri and All Gravy to oversee the rota, payroll and compliance
• Maintain property standards, health & safety, and compliance with EHO/Food Alert
• Contribute to management meetings, audits, and action plans

Why Caravan?

Since 2010, we’ve been serving well-travelled food, specialty coffee and drinks inspired by flavours and ideas from around the world.

We’re a business built around curious people. People who care about what they do, look out for each other and aren’t afraid to try something new. With more openings ahead and a big focus on developing our own people, there’s plenty of room to grow with us too.

Plus, when you work at Caravan you enjoy:

• Free meals & drinks when on shift
• 50% dining discount with up to 4 mates
• 20% coffee retail discount
• Extensive wellbeing support
• Financial health education & support
• Leadership training and development
• A dining voucher when you start, on your birthday and your work anniversary, to spend in any of our restaurants
• Real career progression - 80% of our management roles are filled internally

Our values

We live by four core values, and our Assistant General Manager, and every team member would live, promote and role model them:

• All welcome - We make space for everyone at our table
• No boundaries - Grow, develop and thrive, just a little bit each day
• Caravan of Love - Bring the energy, and be part of the change you want to see in the world
• Well-travelled - Be curious; learn, taste, experiment and share that knowledge with those you meet along the way

Sustainability

We're all in on both environmental and social sustainability practices. Every team member plays their part in maintaining our B-Corp certification targets.

Diversity & Inclusion

Everyone's welcome at Caravan. We respect individual differences in identity, culture and experience, with our team, and with every guest.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Assistant General Manager - Southbank

Company: Caravan Restaurants and Coffee Roasters

Salary: £46,000 to £50,000 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: London, SE1 8XX

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 2 Oct 2026

Closing date: 1 Nov 2026

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