Food and Beverage Manager

CIM; Cookham; On-site; GBP 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in hospitality is seeking a Food and Beverage Manager to oversee service excellence. In this permanent role, you will lead a team, manage budgets, and enhance guest experience by working closely with both kitchen and event teams. Attractive benefits include annual leave, pension contributions, and wellness initiatives.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Pension contribution scheme

Training and development opportunities

Life assurance scheme

Dedicated wellness initiatives

Subscription to Perkbox for discounts

Qualifications

• Strong leader with proven experience in similar roles.
• Financially astute with budget management skills.
• Flexible and proactive with a strong communication focus.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily restaurant and bar staffing and performance goals.
• Drive growth in F & B income and manage budgets.
• Coordinate with events for seamless service.

Skills

Excellent people skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Leadership

Financial acumen

Education

Experience in the hospitality industry (minimum 2 years)

Job description

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Food and Beverage Manager

Role: Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week - 5 days out of 7

Salary: £33,280 + benefits.

You'll have responsibility to ensure all guests and clients have a personalised and exceptional food / beverage service and event experience, from the moment they arrive through to their departure.

For this to happen, you'll be leading, training and developing our food and beverage team whilst working within budgeted and health and safety guidelines. A busy and varied role creating the best F & B experience for clients, staff and all internal and external stakeholders.

In a typical day, you'll:

• Manage the day to day restaurant and bar staffing requirements, plan and assign work and establish performance and development goals for team members by holding regular 1:1 check-in's with your team
• Assist the operations manager in driving growth in F & B income and preparation and delivery of the F & B budget
• Coordinate with the events and catering team to align service times and menus with conference schedules
• Ensure all events run smoothly giving complete customer satisfaction enabling potential repeat business
• Work closely with the chef and kitchen team to provide an inspiring food service for business and leisure guest events
• Ensure all team members have active learning & development plans and that mandatory training requirements are up to date
• Carry out duty management shifts in accordance with the rota

For this role, you'll need:

• Excellent people and communication skills
• A strong leader with proven skills of handling challenging situations and a problem solver
• Financially astute, able to contribute to budget planning and reporting and budget management
• Minimum of two years within a similar role, preferably in a hotel or meeting event / conference centre environment
• Good working knowledge of restaurant department
• Proactive "can do" approach and curious by nature
• Flexible with working hours

We offer a wide range of attractive benefits, including:

• 25 days annual leave
• Pension contribution scheme
• Training and development opportunities
• Life assurance scheme
• Dedicated wellness initiative and wellness hub that supports your wellbeing (including EAP)
• Subscription to Perkbox - our online benefits platform including retailer, entertainment and dining our discounts

CIM Business Centre is a professional and productive work environment where individuals and teams come together to further progress their careers through training, meetings and team building. Our unwavering commitment to excellence, award-winning hospitality service and passion for development, distinguishes us from the rest.

Apply now to join team CIM!!