Bar Manager

Bespoke Hotels Ltd; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned hospitality company in the Cotswolds is looking for a Bar Manager to join their team at Dumbleton Hall. This role emphasizes creating an extraordinary guest experience through personal and cultivated service. The ideal candidate will be warm, detail-oriented, and eager to develop their craft within a historic setting. Key responsibilities include welcoming guests by name and contributing to a storied narrative that guests will remember for a lifetime. A passion for service and hospitality is essential to this role.

Benefits

Staff benefits

Training and growth pathways

Historical setting

Qualifications

• Strong hospitality skills and a warm approach to guests.
• Eager to develop craft in service and events.
• Experience in hospitality is valuable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Welcome guests by name and anticipate their needs.
• Create memorable experiences in service and dining.
• Contribute to the overall storytelling of Dumbleton Hall.

Skills

Guest-focused service

Attention to detail

Ability to work in a team

Passion for storytelling

Job description

We currently have an amazing opportunity to join our team as Bar Manager.

Join our Team at Dumbleton Hall Return to Life Lived Grand

• Help Us Bring It to Our Guests At Dumbleton Hall, we do not simply run a hotel.

We steward a great English manor

• a place where every guest is received as the honoured guest of the family.

Fires are lit, dinner is served, and life unfolds as it once did in the Golden Age of English country houses.

Our team will brings this story to life every day.

We are inviting passionate, thoughtful, and character-led individuals to join us in creating an experience unlike any other in the Cotswolds.

Who We Are Dumbleton Hall: A Manor Reborn

Set in the richest pocket of the Cotswolds, Dumbleton Hall blends heritage, romance, culture, and countryside elegance.

Our story reaches back to the Holland family, the literary circles of Gaskell, Dickens, and Darwin, the Mitford sisters, and poet laureate John Betjeman.

Today, we continue this tradition by offering guests a living narrative of culture and hospitality.

Our Character & Place Between Shakespeare’s Stratford and Cheltenham’s Gold Cup, our manor stands as the grand gateway to theatre, racing, walking country, and village life.

Our interiors draw inspiration from the Belle Époque and the 1920s, with William Morris and Frederic Leighton as artistic touchstones.

Our gardens, lake, cascades, and arboretum create an Arcadian idyll where guests arrive as visitors and depart as part of the Dumbleton story.

What Makes Us Unique

Dumbleton Hall offers the real-life Downton Abbey experience layered, colourful, storied, and personal.

Our unique selling proposition is built on five pillars: Manor Life

• Rituals of welcome, firelight, garden and lake, and gracious dining.

Culture & Story

• A heritage woven through literature, diplomacy, and society.

Countryside & Walking

• The Winchcombe Way at our gates and historic estates all around.

Grand Tour Polish

• Refinement in service, signage, and dining.

Romance

• From moonlit gardens to weddings, honeymoons, and love stories.

Our team members are custodians of these values shaping every touchpoint, from arrival to farewell.

What Makes us so Special

Each of rooms have amazing views of the grounds and Cotswolds The Hall is unique in its décor and history.

We are Team who work together to build memoires for our guests and our team.

We all have the same goal and help each other to be successful.

If you take pride in your craft, generosity, and genuine hospitality, you will thrive here.

What It Means to Work at Dumbleton Hall

To work at Dumbleton Hall is to bring the Honoured Guest Manifesto to life: You welcome guests by name.

You anticipate needs without intrusion.

You offer service that feels personal, cultured, and effortless.

You help create moments

• that feel grand yet warmly human.

Every role, front or back of house, contributes to the story we tell.

Events, Culture, and the Spirit of the Cotswolds

Dumbleton Hall is the country seat for England’s richest cultural arc.

From the Cheltenham Festival and Gold Cup to the Royal Shakespeare Company and the region’s finest estates, we turn the Cotswolds calendar into memorable guest experiences.

Our team plays an essential part in bringing these to life.

Who We’re Looking For

We welcome individuals who are: Warm, articulate, and genuinely guest-focused Inspired by heritage, storytelling, and countryside hospitality Detail-oriented, polished, and proud of their work Eager to develop their craft in service, dining, housekeeping, guest experience, events, and more Excited to join a growing team reshaping a manor house into the Gem of the Cotswolds Hospitality experience is valuable but not essential the right character matters most.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a landmark transformation of one of the Cotswolds’ grandest manor houses Work with a team inspired by culture, quality, and guest delight Grow your skills within a storied English estate environment Contribute to experiences that guests will remember for life Enjoy staff benefits, training, growth pathways, and the privilege of working in a historic, romantic, extraordinary setting Return to Life Lived Grand in Your Career If you want to be part of a house that cherishes its heritage, celebrates its people, and delights every guest who walks through its doors, we would love to hear from you.

Join us at Dumbleton Hall and help shape the next chapter of our story

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