Food and Beverage Manager

The Bath Priory; Bath; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious hotel in Bath is searching for a passionate Food & Beverage Manager to lead its restaurant team across multiple dining outlets. The role includes delivering exceptional service, recruiting and training staff, and ensuring all guests have memorable experiences. The ideal candidate will have experience in hospitality and a strong passion for culinary excellence. This position offers competitive pay, benefits, and opportunities for development within the family of hotels.

Benefits

Competitive pay with service charge

Retail and hospitality perks

25% off food and beverage

Free meals on duty

Continued learning pathways

Milestone awards and unique gifts

Management bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Ability to provide exceptional dining experiences.
• Experience in hospitality necessary.
• A passion for food and beverage management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the restaurant team across various outlets.
• Ensure memorable guest experiences.
• Recruit and train team members.
• Build relationships across teams.
• Maintain flexibility in staffing.

Skills

Exceptional service provision

Staff recruitment

Staff training

Relationship building

Flexibility in support

Job description

Location

The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey-coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi-award-winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5‑star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.

The Role

Come and join our team as a Food & Beverage Manager and let your passion and personality shine. Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

As a Food & Beverage Manager you will lead our restaurant team across our different Food & Beverage outlets and ensure we always provide exceptional service to our guests, helping them make memories that last a lifetime. At the heart of the hotel is our celebrated 3‑AA Rosette Priory Restaurant, with magnificent views across the hotel’s award‑winning gardens. Our menu offers a memorable culinary journey focusing on fresh local produce, flavour, and balance to create exciting, modern European dishes that epitomise the best seasonal dining. Complemented by an exemplary wine cellar, we ensure every detail of your dining experience is perfectly paired.

Escape the hustle and bustle of Bath’s city centre and opt for a cosy, casual dining experience with a warm, relaxed, and friendly atmosphere at our Pantry Restaurant. Our all‑new, vibrant, and informal menu serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and supper, packed with seasonal, light, and exciting dishes.

The Terrace at The Bath Priory is a very special spot for alfresco dining and drinking, backed in early summer by the scented wisteria‑clad walls of the hotel and overlooking four acres of beautiful gardens. The perfect spot for a glass of Champagne or any other choice of tipple, everyone is welcome, whether to eat or enjoy a drink, with the terrace open from 8 am until late.

Responsibilities

• Get to know the menu to advise guests.
• Recruit the best staff for your team.
• Train new staff to be as wonderful as our current staff.
• Build close relationships across all teams.
• Ensure every guest has a memorable experience.
• Help across departments when needed.
• Maintain flexibility to support fair rotas.

Benefits

• Competitive pay with service charge and tips on top.
• Retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• 25% off food & beverage in our hotels; £25 B&B per person; special rates for friends and family.
• External Employee Assistance Programme with confidential helpline.
• Meals on duty are free.
• Continued learning and development pathways.
• Internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• Milestone awards: champagne, afternoon tea, dinner, extra days off, and unique gifts.
• Service charge shared among the team monthly (≈£160 per month, ≈£2000 per year) above base pay.
• Management bonus scheme for Heads of Department and above.

About our Family of Hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts, and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels is unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award‑winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900‑year‑old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th‑century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look here: www.brownswordhotels.co.uk

How to Apply

If you’re the type of person that likes to learn and share the wisdom, get in touch. Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to [phone] to find out more, chat to us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you!)