F&B Team Leader

IHG Hotels & Resorts; Oxford; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international hotel group is seeking a Food & Beverage Team Leader in Oxford. You will be responsible for training your team to provide excellent service while ensuring a variety of high-quality food and beverage offerings. This full-time role offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for advancement within a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Global opportunities within IHG

Extensive training and career progression

Financial wellbeing app (Wagestream)

Meals while on duty

28 to 33 days holiday per year

Company sick pay and life insurance

Discounts for hotels and restaurants worldwide

Store discounts from over 15,000 locations

‘Refer a Friend’ programme

Qualifications

• Passionate about delivering great service and great food and drinks.
• Previous supervisory experience in bars or restaurants is essential.
• Experience with handling guests' queries and complaints required.
• Willing to learn new things and work as part of a wide hotel team.

Responsibilities

• Train team members to perform to voco standards.
• Help team develop while delivering excellent service.
• Manage food and beverage operations in a stylish hotel.

Skills

Passionate about delivering great service

Previous supervisory experience in bars or restaurants

Experience with handling guest queries and complaints

Willingness to learn and work as part of a team

Job description

Overview

A fantastic opportunity for a Food & Beverage Team Leader to join our team in voco Oxford Spires on a Full-Time contract.

You will earn £14.42 per hour – £29,993.60 salary plus service charge.

Staff Accommodation in Oxford available!

At voco, everyone’s a host and ready to provide our guests with the relaxed but attentive stay that they desire. We are reliably different, a trusted name offering an informal, non-pretentious stay that leaves our guests with a lasting impression. With a focus on our environment, you will be greeted by environmentally conscious innovations from start to finish.

voco Oxford Spires is a stylish hotel in Oxford close to the river Thames, a short stroll from museums and university colleges in the city centre. Our guest rooms offer welcoming voco flourishes, and all-day dining in Deacons Restaurant and cocktails in Deacon’s Bar with outside options on terraces.

The Hotel is surrounded by gardens with resident muntjac deer on occasion. Check out our Instagram page @vocooxfordspires.

As Food & Beverage Team Leader, you enjoy variety and are at your best when being part of a team as well as being passionate about helping your team deliver excellent service to all guests. You will train our team to perform to our voco standards while helping them develop.

To succeed as a Food & Beverage Team Leader you will need:

• To be passionate about delivering great service and great food and drinks
• Previous supervisory experience in bars or restaurants
• Experience with handling guests queries and complaints
• To be willing to learn new things and work as part of a wide hotel team

Our Food & Beverage Team Leaders enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Becoming part of the IHG Hotels & Resorts family, one of the world’s leading hotel companies - which means global opportunities
• Extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice
• Wagestream - a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.
• Meals whilst on duty
• 28 days holiday each year, including bank holidays, this increases up to a maximum of 33 days (Pro Rated)
• We provide every employee company sick pay and life insurance
• Amazing discounts for our hotels and restaurants around the world
• Discounts from over 15,000 stores – all the way from retail to cinema
• Don’t forget, bring your friends, and take part in our generous ‘Refer a Friend’ programme!

If you are someone who wants to join a company which favours laid-back but attentive connections with a focus on the environment, apply today to join our team as a Food & Beverage Team Leader!

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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