Events Manager - Food & Beverage

Aethos; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing app access

Financial wellbeing support

Up to 33 days holiday a year

Learning and development programmes

Overnight Guest Experience for you and

Wellness benefits

Mental Health First Aiders

Season Ticket Loan

Cycle to Work

Paid volunteering days

Job summary

Aethos London Shoreditch is seeking an experienced hands-on Food & Beverage Manager to lead events, banqueting and In-Room Dining. You will set up, run and close service on the floor, coordinating with kitchen and front-of-house teams to deliver a premium guest experience.

You'll be responsible for maintaining high standards of service, managing teams, rotas, stock, and ensuring compliance with HACCP and health and safety while delivering exceptional guest moments during evenings and weekend

Qualifications

• Hands-on food and beverage management experience in a hotel or quality venue such as banqueting, events, restaurant or bar.
• Strong food and beverage craft, sequence of service, wine and cocktail knowledge, and an eye for presentation and detail.
• In-Room Dining, restaurant or bar experience, and the confidence to lead a service team on the floor.

Responsibilities

• Set up, run and break down every event alongside your team, rooms laid, service led from the floor, standards held from the first table to the last glass.
• Lead food and beverage service at events: brief the team, run the sections, work the pass with the kitchen and keep the timings tight.
• Own food and beverage standards across events and In-Room Dining - sequence of service, menu and drinks knowledge, allergens, presentation and train the team on them, on shift.
• Work hand in hand with the Head Chef and Bar Manager on menus, timings and execution.
• Lead the In-Room Dining team through to last orders at 11pm: order taking, delivery times, tray and trolley presentation, amenities and VIP requests.
• Lead the weekly BEO meeting and turn client requirements into a clear plan with Kitchen, Front Office, Housekeeping and Maintenance.
• Recruit, train and develop both teams, and build rotas that match the team to the business on the books.
• Manage stock, cellar, glassware, linen and equipment, and control breakage, loss and waste.
• Deliver cost of sale and payroll to budget across events and In-Room Dining.
• Keep both operations compliant on food safety, HACCP, allergens, licensing and health and safety.

Skills

Food & beverage management

Team leadership

Wine knowledge

Cocktail knowledge

Job description

ABOUT AETHOS LONDON SHOREDITCH

Aethos London Shoreditch is a lifestyle hotel in the heart of East London. The hotel blends Shoreditch's creative energy with Aethos's ethos of simple luxury, offering elevated comfort within a relaxed, social environment where no two days are the same.

If you are passionate about hospitality and want to work with an award-winning hotel, we would love to hear from you.

We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and celebrating diversity across all teams. Please let us know if you have any specific requirements during the interview process so we can support you.

BENEFITS OF JOINING OUR TEAM

• Access to Wellable - a physical wellbeing app including companywide challenges.
• Financial wellbeing support, including access to Stream.
• Up to 33 days holiday a year (increasing with length of service).
• Exciting learning and development programmes to help progress your career, including apprenticeships and career mapping.
• An amazing overnight Guest Experience here at Aethos London Shoreditch for you and a guest.
• Wellness benefits and initiatives
• Mental Health First Aiders within the team to offer tailored support.
• Season Ticket Loan, Cycle to Work and discounted Gym memberships.
• Annual festive and summer social events, charity fundraising days and committees to join, including paid volunteering days.

Aethos London Shoreditch hosts the moments that matter, creative launches and press days, board meetings and offsites, private dinners, celebrations and full buyouts. Once the business is on the books, you are the person who makes it happen: on the floor, sleeves rolled up, leading the food and beverage delivery from the first table laid to the last glass cleared.

This is a hands on role first and foremost. You will be setting the room with your team, briefing them, running the service, working the pass with the kitchen and pouring the wine, not watching from the side of the room. Your standards are the team's standards, and they will learn them from watching you work.

Alongside events, you are accountable for our In-Room Dining team, looking after guests in our 164 bedrooms through to last orders at 11pm. It is a natural pairing: both are about delivering a considered food and beverage experience away from the restaurant floor, to the minute and to the detail.

Key Responsibilities

• Set up, run and break down every event alongside your team, rooms laid, service led from the floor, standards held from the first table to the last glass.
• Lead food and beverage service at events: brief the team, run the sections, work the pass with the kitchen and keep the timings tight.
• Own food and beverage standards across events and In-Room Dining - sequence of service, menu and drinks knowledge, allergens, presentation and train the team on them, on shift.
• Work hand in hand with the Head Chef and Bar Manager on menus, timings and execution.
• Lead the In-Room Dining team through to last orders at 11pm: order taking, delivery times, tray and trolley presentation, amenities and VIP requests.
• Lead the weekly BEO meeting and turn client requirements into a clear plan with Kitchen, Front Office, Housekeeping and Maintenance.
• Recruit, train and develop both teams, and build rotas that match the team to the business on the books.
• Manage stock, cellar, glassware, linen and equipment, and control breakage, loss and waste.
• Deliver cost of sale and payroll to budget across events and In-Room Dining.
• Keep both operations compliant on food safety, HACCP, allergens, licensing and health and safety.

ABOUT YOU

• Hands-on food and beverage management experience in a hotel or quality venue - banqueting, events, restaurant or bar.
• Genuinely hands-on: first in to set the room, last out after the clear-down, and leading service by doing it.
• Strong food and beverage craft, sequence of service, wine and cocktail knowledge, and an eye for presentation and detail.
• In-Room Dining, restaurant or bar experience, and the confidence to lead a service team on the floor.
• Fluent with function sheets, set-ups, floor plans and turnarounds to time.
• Comfortable with the numbers that matter operationally - cost of sale, labour, stock and waste.
• Strong on food safety, allergens and health and safety
• Calm and credible in front of a client when something needs solving mid-event.
• Happy to work the evenings and weekends our events and In-Room Dining operation needs.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the United Kingdom. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required.