Bar Manager

Eden Hotel Collection; Teignbridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hotel group in Teignbridge is seeking a Bar Manager to deliver excellent service and oversee bar operations. You will manage the team, provide expert beverage recommendations, and ensure a memorable experience for guests. The ideal candidate will have hotel bar experience, strong leadership skills, and a passion for customer service. This role offers competitive benefits including enhanced leave and health plans.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave

Discounts across retailers

Health plans

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Previous experience in hospitality, preferably in hotel bar.
• Ability to motivate and supervise a team.
• Strong knowledge of beverages and cocktails.

Responsibilities

• Deliver friendly, professional service to guests.
• Supervise and train bar staff.
• Manage beverage stock and conduct inventory.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Customer service

Job description

** We’re proud winners of the AA Small Hotel Group of the year 2024-25, rated as a Top 30 Best Place to Work in Hospitality 2024 by The Caterer, and recently crowned Best Employer at the Springboard Awards for Excellence**

**Bovey Castle has been awarded LARGE HOTEL OF THE YEAR (2024) by Devon Tourism**

What We Offer

• Overtime Pay – you’ll be paid for every hour worked beyond your contracted hours.

What You’ll Be Doing

As Bar Manager, you will work as part of a team that to deliver friendly, professional and memorable service to all of our guests.

You will be able to motivate, train, and supervise the bartenders in the team, including managing the bar team's rota.

You will be responsible for serving drinks, making cocktails and providing table service to all guests wishing to relax in our bar and lounge areas.

The bar team also supervise Afternoon Tea guests within the hotel, this will include table set-up, coordinating the food service from kitchen to table, all to ensure our guests receive nothing but the best experience.

Having expert knowledge of all drinks that we offer will also be key to ensure appropriate recommendations can be made in order to drive sales and profitability.

You will be responsible for the beverage stock and all subsequent administration and to conduct stock takes with the external stock take company.

You will work alongside the restaurant management team in controlling the wage costs of the department in line with budget expectations.

You will ensure all Bar staff are trained departmental Health & Safety and that training records are kept up to date.

What you’ll need?

The successful candidate for this role will be professional, knowledgeable and dedicated to delivering first-class experiences to guests and hotel residents.

You will be highly attentive with strong communication and interpersonal skills and be confident building a relationship with guests and members of the hotel team. You will be friendly and enthusiastic with a drive to enhance quality service and in turn guest satisfaction.

You will have previous experience in the hospitality industry – preferably with a hotel bar background, meeting,greeting and interacting with guests, ideally in a hotel bar.

You will demonstrate strong leadership skills, and be able to run and oversee the bar operations on a daily basis.

What’s in it for you?

Our bespoke Eden Extra’s benefits platform offers:

• Enhanced annual leave - 31 days annual leave entitlement, rising to 33 days with service;
• Fairly distributed Service Charge/Gratuities paid monthly;
• Live in accommodation available
• Discounts and cashback across 800 high street and food retailers, gyms, days out, restaurants/takeaways and utilities.
• Access to our wellbeing centre with Hello Fresh Recipes, fitness video’s and money management tools;
• Cycle to Work Scheme and Electric Vehicle Lease Scheme;
• Health plans for dental, optical, alternative health care + 24 hour GP access;
• Discounted stays, spa treatments, golf and leisure access across EHC properties;
• Support via our Wellbeing Strategy based on Money, Mind, Body & Heart; anything from financial wellbeing to domestic violence and family friendly policies; we genuinely CARE about our people;
• Access to Eden Engage – our employee portal with regular team news;
• Grow with us via apprenticeships and bespoke leadership programmes – RISE & THRIVE;
• Enhanced family friendly policies- we want to help you feel fully supported during any significant life events.
• Return to work financial support for those returning from maternity leave;
• You’ll also get free parking, meals on duty, uniform etc….but you already knew that, right?!!

Our culture focuses on collaboration so we regularly involve our teams in helping to shape this via:

- An opinion that counts….regular surveys and forums that ask YOU for YOUR opinion;

- A ‘You said, we did’ approach so that you know we’re taking your feedback seriously;

- A commitment to Sustainability & Wellbeing with employee champions in every hotel & HQ;

We are proud to be members of the Hoteliers Charter and are committed to providing a great place to work with our teams at the heart of all we do – we lead with a values led approach based on Heart, Honesty, Spirit and Team, which were written ‘by our people for our people’. Testament to this is our multi award wins in employee wellbeing and engagement.

Eden Hotel Collection is a passionate advocate of providing equitable workplace’s, as such we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We therefore encourage applications from all genders, races, religions, ages and sexual orientations, as well as parents, people living with disabilities, and any other groups that could bring diverse perspectives to EHC.

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