Assistant Manager - Skipton

Lounge Café Bars; Skipton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Lounge Café Bars as an Assistant Manager in Skipton, where you'll work closely with the General Manager to oversee operations and ensure exceptional customer experiences. With a chance to lead a vibrant team, your contributions will directly impact the lounge's success and reputation in the local community. This role not only offers personal development opportunities but also amazing benefits, including overtime pay and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours

Staff food on every shift

50% off staff discount outside working hours

Paid breaks

28 days holiday pro rata

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay after 2 years

Exciting staff parties like Loungefest

Competitions and incentives for trips

Company pension scheme

Emotional support via Licenced Trade Charity

Qualifications

• Experience as an Assistant Manager, Deputy Manager or Supervisor in hospitality.
• Proven background in a bar environment with food and drink preparation.
• Strong literacy skills for reporting on KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day running of the lounge.
• Drive sales and team retention.
• Maintain high standards of customer satisfaction.

Skills

Customer Service

Sales Building

Team Leadership

Communication

Attention to Detail

Job description

Assistant Manager - Skipton

Lounges are pretty special places, and what makes them so special are the brilliant people who run them. As Assistant Manager, you'll be supporting the General Manager to maintain that brilliance across the team,delivering 14 great shifts to make sure that every customer leaves happy. You'll support the day-to-day running of the Lounge from rotas and team engagement to customer feedback. Your standards will be as high as ours, but exactly how you do it will be unique to you. You'll be doing it your way. Brilliant!

It's all about the detail. You'll be involved with driving sales, team retention, training, customer service and maintaining high standards. You never settle for second best and you make it your mission for your Lounge to be the place to go for the local community. It's not a job for the faint hearted, but you know you've got this.

The Good Stuff

• Overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours!
• Staff food on every shift
• 50% off staff discount to enjoy outside working hours from day one
• Paid breaks
• 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years service
• The most talked-about staff party in hospitality - Loungefest!
• Competitions and incentives (like jetting off on an all expenses paid trip with one of our suppliers)
• Company pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Power over your pay with Wagestream
• Emotional and practical support via the Licenced Trade Charity
• Great opportunity for personal development and career progression in a fast growing business
• Achievable bonuses
• Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked
• Christmas and Boxing Day off!

What you'll bring:

• You are probably an existing Assistant Manager, Deputy Manager or Supervisor with a background in restaurants, bars, caf or coffee shops.
• You will have experience of working in a bar environment with serving freshly made food and drinks preparation.
• A natural talent and passion for hospitality and an amazing people manager with a flair for talent spotting.
• Extremely driven and relentless at overcoming challenges or obstacles.
• Good literacy skills alongside excellent attention to detail to support reporting on KPIs.
• Good communication skills with the ability to build rapport and trust.
• Self-motivator working at pace with limited supervision whilst adhering to pressure and timescales.
• Strong knowledge of best practice in the following areas: sales building, sales and labour forecasts, paperwork and reporting, recruitment and HR and NPS.

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