Bar Manager

Compass Group; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospitality group in London is seeking a passionate Bar Manager to lead a small team and create a welcoming environment for customers. Responsibilities include meeting sales targets, managing inventory, and ensuring high-quality beverage service. The role offers excellent perks including personal development opportunities and a strong wellbeing strategy.

Benefits

Personal Development and Training opportunities

Life assurance scheme

Pension scheme

Holiday allowance

Private medical eligibility

Eye care

Great wellbeing strategy

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a bar or pub
• Ability to meet sales and profitability targets
• Strong customer service skills

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of bar staff
• Ensure front-of-house is fully staffed during peak times
• Create a welcoming environment for customers
• Oversee cleanliness and health regulations compliance

Skills

Passion for cocktails

Job description

We are Company of Cooks, and we believe brilliant food and drink starts with brilliant people. For over 25 years, we've been part of some of the UK's most loved cultural destinations, from historic palaces and botanical gardens to buzzing galleries and performance spaces, running the cafés, restaurants, bars and events that bring these incredible places to life.

Our values - Craft, Creativity and Community - guide everything we do. They shape how we work together, how we support our partners, and how we make each guest feel welcome. If you care about food, people and doing things properly, you'll feel right at home here.

Wherever we are, we do more than serve. We bring places to life through food, service and creativity and we're looking for aBar Manager to work with us in London.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading a small team of bar or pub staff
• Ensuring that the front-of-house is fully staffed, particularly during peak times
• Meeting sales and profitability targets
• Creating a welcoming environment for customers
• Ensuring consistent, high quality beverages are served to customers
• Dealing with customer feedback and providing adequate solutions to customer complaints
• Creating a positive work environment for staff and encouraging their career development
• Monitoring inventory of beverages to ensure adequate stock
• Overseeing the cleanliness of staff and the physical bar area and paying attention to possible health hazards and regulation violations

Our Ideal Candidate:

* We are looking for candidates who are super passionate about all things cocktails

What's in it for you?

Working with Company of Cookshas its perks! People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.

• Personal Development and Training opportunities
• Life assurance scheme
• Pension scheme
• Holiday allowance
• Private medical eligibility
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing strategy - including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
• Family friendly support

• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Volunteering days
• Professional subscriptions
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers