Food & Beverage Manager

Nationaltrustjobs; Ballynahinch; On-site; GBP 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organization as a Food & Beverage Manager, overseeing operations at a popular visitor attraction. You'll lead a team, ensure excellent customer service, and manage budgets while fostering a positive work environment. This role offers a chance to grow professionally in a supportive culture.

Benefits

Substantial pension scheme

Free entry to National Trust places

Season ticket loan

EV car lease scheme

Gym membership discounts

Holiday allowance up to 32 days

Flexible working

Employee assistance programme

Free parking

Qualifications

• Experienced as a leader with skills in setting objectives.
• Familiar with budgets and controlling costs.
• Good with people and a can-do attitude.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support team at a busy visitor attraction.
• Manage day-to-day operations of the café.
• Set and achieve financial targets with the Area Manager.

Skills

Leadership

Budget Management

Customer Service

Health and Safety Compliance

Job description

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Are you looking for the next step in your career in food and beverage? The National Trust is renowned for its food and hospitality. We run 185 cafes all over England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and we'd love you to join us.

We’re looking for a Food and Beverage Manager to join us. Because we are in a rural area, please think about how you’d be able to get here for work, before applying for the job.

Benefits: We want to help you look after the things that matter to you, such as saving for your future, getting a discount on your weekly shop, or encouraging you to find a work-life balance. Please read our package, below, to see what benefits we offer you.

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Salary:£28,509 per annum

Provisional interview date Tuesday 27th May 2025

What it's like to work here

To find out more about what it’s like to work in a food and beverage team for the National Trust, click here to watch our video.

What you'll be doing

As Food and Beverage Manager, you’ll lead and support your team at one of the National Trust’s busy visitor attractions. This involves handling things behind the scenes, from administration to developing people and everything in between. You’ll be championing outstanding customer service and keeping presentation standards high, to help give all our visitors an enjoyable day.

You'll be responsible for leading and running our café on a day-to-day basis, so the team can get on with doing what they do best. It’s a busy, lively place, and we want to make sure that we always give visitors the best service every time.

You’ll help to build a great place to work for your team. You’ll recruit and train versatile and hard-working people, and encourage high achievement by setting objectives and reviewing their performance. You might also be needed to support the wider property team from time to time.

You’ll work with the Area Manager to set and achieve financial targets that will increase profitability, as well as overseeing results and acting when needed. Where you can, you'll find ways to improve things, based on feedback from the team and visitors.

We’ll give you an induction that fits the job, and training in allergens and food safety, plus any mentoring needed to help you in your role. You can sign up for further professional training and development if you wish.

Who we're looking for

We’d love to hear from you if you’re:

• Experienced as a leader, with skills including setting personal objectives and providing development.

• Familiar with budgets, increasing income and controlling costs (including managing stock and waste).

• Confident with identifying new opportunities and making strategic decisions for the future of your department.

• Good with people, with a can-do attitude.

• Aware of health and safety compliance.

The package

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

• Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)

• Season ticket loan

• EV car lease scheme

• Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts

• Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.

• Flexible working whenever possible

• Employee assistance programme

• Free parking at most Trust places

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Customer Service and Management

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations

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